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!
Black velvet if you please - now that is good wordplay.
"Love wheat my heart" sounds cool too!
Nice review and some very creative photography, Miro. I love the gif :)
Stolichno Bock is my favorite out of the bunch.
Bock is definitely the best of them, especially if you find it draft! Their Pale Bock was very good too, and was strong with its 7% alc., but I haven't seen it recently.
I haven't seen it either... maybe they stopped producing it?
Намерих я! Днес във фантастико.
Трябва да я пробвам отново, защото съм я пил само един-два пъти миналата година :) Вчера бях в Пловдив и пих Trappistes Rochefort 8 и 10 - супер беше!
За 8-та не знам, но десятката е наистина чудесна.
Спомням си, че на шишетата пишеше нещо от рода на "Special edition", та може и да е била лимитирана серия...
They are definitely some good looking beers. The can design is excellent. And from an Australian point of view, $1 per can is insanely cheap.
You rated them fairly high, so for that price they must be excellent value.
I rated them so high, having in mind, that they are not supposed to be excellent examples of the beer industry, but overall they are really good. And of course something different.