Bulgarian non-craft premium beers. Three beer set, side by side.

Hello there... I’m ready for this week’s #beersaturday

This week’s choice is Zagorka’s premium collection, if it can be called premium, but definitely these are beers, that deserve some attention.
Let’s meet the three ”Stolichno” beers:

These are cans with design of this year... I mean, 2017!
And as you see, there is a bit of a word play there with the cans and you will definitely understand which slogan pairs with the beer style. Oops... forgot to mention that the styles of the beers are WEISS, BOCK, and AMBER PILS.

”Love you wheat my heart”
”I Ambeer”
”Black velvet, if you please”

I like that the marketing team decided to do something different. Don’t you think so?

I’ll give my best and will systematize the three beer’s qualities in a table, although there is not much of comparison between these three styles. I will say... Three absolutely different beer styles. Anyway I will compare the, directly, face to face!

Parameter	WEISSE	AMBER PILS	BOCK
Head retention	Very good	Good	Fair
Aroma	Banana, clove	Not much	Roasted malts, chocolate, caramel
Carbonation	Medium high-High	Medium high	Medium high
Mouthfeel	Medium body	Light body	Rich, smooth body
Taste	Wheat, earthy, banana	Malty, caramel	Special malts, cocoa, caramel
Aftertaste	Weise-estery, banana	Hoppy bitter, caramel malts	Dark fruit, cocoa
Overal score	7,5/10	7/10	8/10

In my opinion, for their price (about $1 each) they are very good beers and definitely will prefer drinking one of them instead of the regular everyday lager beers.

Weisse is definitely a fine example and stays behind the banana character of the yeast. Very estery and fermented in the high temperature range of the yeast.

Amber pils needs more hoppy character in the aroma. It is a Pils after all, it a regular Amber. Maybe with some fine tuning it will be ok. Mouthfeel is very good.

Bock is the best of the three examples and is strongest with its 6,5% alcohol by volume. It not lacked some body and creaminess in my opinion and the carbonation is somewhat rough. Definitely my preferable.

Stolichno Weiss

Stolichno Amber Pils

Stolichno Bock

Cheers, and support @detlev with his #beersaturday challenge. Write your beer post and join the competition of the week.
P.S. It was somewhat hard to drink these 3 beers, but the cause was good. At the same time I was brewing a Saison and tasting my Already fermented Pale ale. It was a tough evening, but ended well!