Kopernik
Browar Amber
- From:
- Browar Amber
- Poland
- Style:
- European Pale Lager
Ranked #195 - ABV:
- 5.6%
- Score:
- 76
Ranked #38,422 - Avg:
- 3.15 | pDev: 14.6%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 16
- Status:
- Active
- Rated:
- Jan 21, 2025
- Added:
- Feb 13, 2008
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 2
SCORE
76
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76
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Rated by Sinfull from New York
2.96/5 rDev -6%
look: 3.25 | smell: 2.75 | taste: 3 | feel: 3 | overall: 3
2.96/5 rDev -6%
look: 3.25 | smell: 2.75 | taste: 3 | feel: 3 | overall: 3
Clear, golden color. The aroma of malt, hay, and fruits. Sweet, malty taste. Decent lager.
Jan 21, 2025
Reviewed by metter98 from New York
3.08/5 rDev -2.2%
look: 3 | smell: 3 | taste: 3 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3.25
3.08/5 rDev -2.2%
look: 3 | smell: 3 | taste: 3 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3.25
A: The beer is clear yellow in color and has a moderate amount of visible carboantion. It poured with a half finger high white head that died down, leaving a patch of large bubbles around the edge of the glass and a thin film covering the surface.
S: Light aromas of bready hops are present in the nose.
T: The taste has a light to moderate amount of bitterness from the hops—which seem to be slightly grassy and spicy—and has underlying hints of bready malts.
M: It feels just about medium-bodied and clean on the palate with a moderate amount of carbonation.
O: This beer is easy to drink and has a good amount of bitterness considering it's strength, without being overpowered by malty or hoppy flavors. It would pair well with a meal.
Serving type: bottle
Apr 19, 2018S: Light aromas of bready hops are present in the nose.
T: The taste has a light to moderate amount of bitterness from the hops—which seem to be slightly grassy and spicy—and has underlying hints of bready malts.
M: It feels just about medium-bodied and clean on the palate with a moderate amount of carbonation.
O: This beer is easy to drink and has a good amount of bitterness considering it's strength, without being overpowered by malty or hoppy flavors. It would pair well with a meal.
Serving type: bottle
Reviewed by tigg924 from Massachusetts
3.34/5 rDev +6%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3.25
3.34/5 rDev +6%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3.25
Pours slightly hazy, gold in color with ¼ inch head. Taste is cereal, bread, grain, and alcohol. Medium bodied, moderate carbonation, and slightly bitter. Makes for a slightly above average Polish lager. Will most likely not revisit, but refreshing.
Mar 12, 2018
Reviewed by Jugs_McGhee from Texas
3/5 rDev -4.8%
look: 3 | smell: 3 | taste: 3 | feel: 3 | overall: 3
3/5 rDev -4.8%
look: 3 | smell: 3 | taste: 3 | feel: 3 | overall: 3
A 500ml bottle (brown glass, pry-off crown cap) ran me $1.99 USD at a grocer in Brooklyn.
5.60% ABV.
APPEARANCE: Off-white ~5-6cm head. Clear pale copper body. Clean, with no visible yeast/lees within.
AROMA: Slightly funky, making me wonder if this is an old bottle. Lemon, some tartness, pilsner malt, slightly doughy yeast, creamed wheat, leavened bread.
Aromatic intensity is average.
TASTE & TEXTURE: Surprisingly balanced, actually. A soft pilsner malt backbone isn't what I expected, but it's there, playing against the slight crispness of the mouthfeel. Pale malts, 2-row barley, doughy yeast. A little bready, slightly grassy...it's not dialed in but there's sufficient flavour here to exceed my (low) expectations.
No off-flavours. Decent depth of flavour. Above average intensity and duration of flavour.
Smooth, wet, medium-bodied, refreshing. Could be softer, lighter, and creamier to good effect.
OVERALL: It's inoffensive budget fare that drinks easily and would pair well with pizza. A more than competent take on the generic European pale lager style/category that delivers in terms of high drinkability and neutral but favorable taste. I'd entertain the idea of a second purchase, even as an import. Its overcarbonation is its biggest flaw, but that's consistent with most budget beers in the category.
High C (3.00) / AVERAGE
Mar 24, 20175.60% ABV.
APPEARANCE: Off-white ~5-6cm head. Clear pale copper body. Clean, with no visible yeast/lees within.
AROMA: Slightly funky, making me wonder if this is an old bottle. Lemon, some tartness, pilsner malt, slightly doughy yeast, creamed wheat, leavened bread.
Aromatic intensity is average.
TASTE & TEXTURE: Surprisingly balanced, actually. A soft pilsner malt backbone isn't what I expected, but it's there, playing against the slight crispness of the mouthfeel. Pale malts, 2-row barley, doughy yeast. A little bready, slightly grassy...it's not dialed in but there's sufficient flavour here to exceed my (low) expectations.
No off-flavours. Decent depth of flavour. Above average intensity and duration of flavour.
Smooth, wet, medium-bodied, refreshing. Could be softer, lighter, and creamier to good effect.
OVERALL: It's inoffensive budget fare that drinks easily and would pair well with pizza. A more than competent take on the generic European pale lager style/category that delivers in terms of high drinkability and neutral but favorable taste. I'd entertain the idea of a second purchase, even as an import. Its overcarbonation is its biggest flaw, but that's consistent with most budget beers in the category.
High C (3.00) / AVERAGE
Reviewed by tone77 from Pennsylvania
3.38/5 rDev +7.3%
look: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.25
3.38/5 rDev +7.3%
look: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.25
Poured from a brown 16.9 oz. bottle. Has a light golden color with a 1/2 inch head. Smell is of grains, malts, some sweetness. Taste is grains, light malts and hops, some hints of a metallic flavor. Feels medium bodied in the mouth and overall is a decent beer.
Sep 03, 2016Rated by TopherBreski from New Jersey
2.11/5 rDev -33%
look: 3.25 | smell: 2.25 | taste: 1.75 | feel: 1.75 | overall: 2.5
2.11/5 rDev -33%
look: 3.25 | smell: 2.25 | taste: 1.75 | feel: 1.75 | overall: 2.5
It's a bigger ABV MHL.
Nov 13, 2015Rated by biernack from Switzerland
2.46/5 rDev -21.9%
look: 2.5 | smell: 2.75 | taste: 2.25 | feel: 2.5 | overall: 2.5
2.46/5 rDev -21.9%
look: 2.5 | smell: 2.75 | taste: 2.25 | feel: 2.5 | overall: 2.5
Tastes not too good, nothing interesting in the flavour, very poor lager, which doesn't deserve the name of Copernicus
Apr 14, 2015
Reviewed by Mavigo from Michigan
3.47/5 rDev +10.2%
look: 3 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3 | overall: 3.75
3.47/5 rDev +10.2%
look: 3 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3 | overall: 3.75
Served in a pilsner glass.
A: Pours a golden honey color with a 1/2 inch white head that dissipates really fasts, leaving hardly any lacing.
S: Smells of yeast, wheat, honey, bananas, grains
T: Tastes fairly sweet, yeast, wheat, grains, bananas, honey, a bit syrupy, bit of hops at the end
M: A light bodied beer with good amounts of carbonation, kind of syrupy but still fairly good
O: Overall this is not too bad compared to the other Polish pale lagers I've had. Not too bad but a little bit funky. Not really too original, I would still opt for this over the mainstream american adjunct crap but still, doesn't say too much.
Aug 27, 2013A: Pours a golden honey color with a 1/2 inch white head that dissipates really fasts, leaving hardly any lacing.
S: Smells of yeast, wheat, honey, bananas, grains
T: Tastes fairly sweet, yeast, wheat, grains, bananas, honey, a bit syrupy, bit of hops at the end
M: A light bodied beer with good amounts of carbonation, kind of syrupy but still fairly good
O: Overall this is not too bad compared to the other Polish pale lagers I've had. Not too bad but a little bit funky. Not really too original, I would still opt for this over the mainstream american adjunct crap but still, doesn't say too much.
Reviewed by Justin23060 from Virginia
3.88/5 rDev +23.2%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 4
3.88/5 rDev +23.2%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 4
A - Cloudy dark straw w/ a 1.5 finger head that dissipated without lace. Some sediment.
S - Barley and sweet caramel
T - Perfect balance between sweet and bitter. Finishes with a nice linger. Lacks the cripness I usually associate with a pilsner. Almost to the point of doubting the accuracy for the style. Regardless, it is good... very good! Somewhat hoppy too for a pills. Like a sweet pale ale.
M - Carb is adequate and leaning toward creamy. Medium body.
O - Even though it may not be true to style I will be trying it again before the summer is through.
May 11, 2013S - Barley and sweet caramel
T - Perfect balance between sweet and bitter. Finishes with a nice linger. Lacks the cripness I usually associate with a pilsner. Almost to the point of doubting the accuracy for the style. Regardless, it is good... very good! Somewhat hoppy too for a pills. Like a sweet pale ale.
M - Carb is adequate and leaning toward creamy. Medium body.
O - Even though it may not be true to style I will be trying it again before the summer is through.
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