Comments on: Březňák Doppel-Doppel Bock

By: ap davenschot

ap davenschot — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 20:37:23 +0000

Hello Evan, I was not aware of your question, responding to my remarks on Breznak Pils. I’m sorry for that. It will probably have been the 4.1% type, I don’t recall. It is common use to expport only the weak varieties in order to save on alcohol taxes. Accountants probably promote this way of working and marketeers seem unable to convice the company that their job is to sell beer and not to save on taxes if this means putting a beer for sale that no one will want to buy a second time bevcause of a lack of taste.

By: Evan Rail

Evan Rail — Sat, 27 Dec 2008 09:18:28 +0000

Hi, Davenschot. Which one did you try? As I wrote, the one with 5.1% alcohol? Or the one with 4.1%?

By: ap davenschot

ap davenschot — Sat, 27 Dec 2008 00:35:47 +0000

I must agree with Thorskind that the Breznak Pils is not a very good beer. The brewery should work on it. With Heineken as their owner it should not be difficult to make te necessary investments, either in equipment or in technology. That is: If they wish to make a better beer. I hope they will. I recently bought a few bottles of their “Schwarzbier” when in became available in the German town of Emlicheim, close to the Netherlands border, and this was exactly the Schwarbier I was looking for. A very full taste, a nice bitterness of hops. So now I know what they are capable of and it really is a shame they don’t produce a Pils with equal qualities, something like Pilzner Urquell before it was taken over by SAB Miller

By: Evan Rail

Evan Rail — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 06:02:56 +0000

Hi Thorskind… I’m pretty sure the Doppel-Doppel Bock isn’t being brewed anymore. If you find a bottle or a case now, buy it!

I don’t think Březňák pale lager is (or was) as bad as Bitburger. Try the Březňák světlý ležák with 5.1% ABV instead of the Březňák světlé výčepní with 4.1% ABV and it should be more of a true Czech Pilsner-style taste.

If it’s not, then we know who to blame: Heineken, the new owner of the brewery.

By: Thorskind

Thorskind — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 10:39:46 +0000

Can anyone tell me anyplace in the Rhien-land pfalz or the Saarland region of Germany that sells this beer (Březňák Doppel-Doppel Bock)? A local Getranke shop (I live in Bitburg, the home of piss water beer) only could get two cases of it over two months. They get a weekly shipment of Breznak pils and shwarzbier, the Breznak pils is worse than Bitburger. Okay so I only drink bock bier and strong dunkel type biers.
Prost from Thorskind in Germany…

By: John Engels

John Engels — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 03:52:08 +0000

Very interesting post. Perhaps you would know about another Afrikakorps bottle I saw several years back. It was clear glass and it had “Afrikakorps” and a Swastika on one side of the bottle. The bottle was sold out of Poland and it was about the size of a regular beer bottle. Does anyone know anything about this type of a bottle and who would have supplied whatever it’s contents were to the Afrikakorps?

By: Pivero

Pivero — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 17:51:26 +0000

We must!!! Let’s start writing emails and see what the SPP can do about it. It is a pity that local beer lovers can’t have regular access to this wonder.

By: Evan Rail

Evan Rail — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 22:11:21 +0000

I like your take on it. I think this beer has to be released here — let’s talk them into it!

By: Pivero

Pivero — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 18:50:44 +0000

Nice post. Better than mine, I must admit…..
Still, perhaps we, together with our readers can talk Drinks Union into start selling this fantastic beer here.