Moonlight Reality Czeck
A delicate soft Lager, authentic to the west coast of the Czech Republic.
3.6
180 reviews
Santa Rosa, United States
Community reviews
Draft pour at brewery, golden pour. Nice balance flavor crisp and a little bitter.
Draught at Toronado San Francisco. Pours clear gold with a medium, creamy white head, medium retention. Moderate doughy Pils malt, a clean lager character, medium-light earthy and spicy hops and bitterness with a dry finish. Light body and moderate carbonation.
Deep gold, chill haze, thick head. Rich hop, big clean malts, moderate bitterness. Very nice lager, beautiful balance, great malts. That's how it's done.
Pint draft at The Trappist in Oakland, California. The pour is a mostly clear golden copper with a small white head. The aroma is mineral, spice floral hop and cracker malt. A fresh traditional Czech pils nose. The taste is a clean blend of the spice floral hops, the fresh cracker malt and finishes dry with the mineral character. The palate is light bodied with soft to low carbonation and the dry mineral floral hop finish. Nice.
Keg at the Flavor Bistro with the RBWG 2016 crew. Pours clear gold with a creamy, white head. Odd nose, light vegetal notes, biscuits, hay. Lightly sweet flavour, with more vegetal notes, dough, white bread. Light bodied with average carbonation. Bitter finish, with more doughy biscuits, hay, grass. So so overall. A very basic lager.
Tap at SF Beer Week Opening Gala.
Pours pale yellow.
Aroma: Some butter and dirt, but also grassy hops and pale Malts. True to the Czech stile.
Medium body,sweet and buttery, light carbonation.
Sweetish medium.palate. okay, not my beer though.
Sample at Monk’s Kettle. Clear yellow-gold color with a medium white head that evaporates steadily to an outer ring. Short strings of lace. Spicy hops, fruit and malt aroma. Light-bodied with flavors of grassy hops, fruit and bready malt. The finish is mildly bitter with a grassy hop aftertaste. Decent overall.
Draft at Flavor, served in a pint glass. Pours a barely cloudy gold with an inch of lasting white head that leaves some trailing lace in the glass. Grassy hops, with hay, pils malts, faint pepper and herbs, and crackers. Light-medium bodied, with a clean, dry mouthfeel. This is great. Could drink it all day.
On tap at Flavor Bistro - Santa Rosa. Pour is translucent yellow with a large bubbly white head. Flavor and aroma of lemon citrus, bready malt, grass clippings, and straw. Finish is clean.
Draft at brew Santa Rosa. Light hazed yellow straw coloured pour with a lasting sticky white froth. Aroma is raw pils grains, fresh Nobel hop. Flavour is composed of clean pils grains, semi sweet grains, light Nobel hop. Palate is semi sweet, not that crisp, moderate carbonation. OK , pretty crushable pils.
Draught. Clear golden liquid with medium off-white head. Aroma of bread, grain, light earth, floral hops and light mineral. Taste is dry and light to medium bitter with notes of bread, floral hops and light grain. Medium bodied with medium carbonation. Great. Very true to style.
On tap at toronado San Francisco. Pours out a crisp golden topped with a white head. nose is crisp light wheat crisp grassy hops spice. Taste is more of the crisp malts grassy hops.
On tap at Toronado. Clear very pale gold pour with thin white head. Aroma is very light, grainy, light grassy notes light honey. Taste is rather bitter, very grassy with light light malty flavors. Palate is med-light bodied with strong carbonation, slightly over carbed. Good.
Pour clear pale yellow...lively...white head...good retention and lacing...classic. Aroma has light straw, grass, and bread. Flavor follows suit...nice light grass and spice...good Pils...touch of skunky dank. Mouthfeel is medium and the finish is dry and spicy/earthy/dank and minerally.
Draft. Big grass aroma. Foamy lace. Flavors feature a surprisingly big malt sweetness cut by lemony citrus and a hint of sourdough. Slightly sour finish that lingers. What a beer!
On tap at Church Key. Pours clear golden / yellow with a white head. The aroma has dough, light spice, pils malt and some mush. It has a medium smooth body for the style and a mild amount of carbonation. The flavor starts with very full maltiness, grassy hops, spice and clean pils malt. The finish has more hoppiness and is sharp and clean while still having malt helf. As it warm sulfur and grassiness come out more. Great pilsner.
At Toronado with Taylor. Pours cloudy neon orange with light head. Aroma is hay and grains. Taste is like malt, grain, straw, delicious light sticky,
On tap; glad to finally get around to rating.
Aroma has a nice sweet graininess to it with some white bread notes. A light floral hoppiness with a bit of a spicy woodsy note as well.
Pours a slightly hazy yellow straw color with a thick, creamy white head that exhibits nice retention as it slowly recedes. High lacing and small legs.
Flavor has a light sweetness with a nice grainy character and some bready notes. Medium light bitterness with some floral hop notes and a bit of a spicy hop character.
Mouthfeel is medium light bodied with medium carbonation. Low astringency and low alcohol warmth.
Overall, a very nice beer and I often go for this at bars but have never gotten around to rating. Easy drinking with great malt and hop balance.
This poured a golden color with a white head. Aroma was of noble hops, pale malt and light bitter. Flavor was light bitterness grassy and buttery.
On tap at Monk’s Kettle. Pours clear golden color, white head. Aroma is some Belgian spices, mild clove. Flavor is some clove, some light cherries and dark fruits. Some hop character, little bit of citrus, pilsner malt. Very good as far as pilsners go.
Nice to pick out a hint of malt in a pils. I'm not a pils fan so but enjoyed the yeasty note in the aroma. Seemed like it had a seaside quality to it.
Draft at the Trappist on 2/11/12. Yellow golden color, large white head, solid lacing. Aroma of buttery straw. Taste is similar.
Draft at Toronado. Clear yellow colour. Grassy, grain aroma. Taste is citrus bread, finishes bitter.
On tap at the Sycamore - San Francisco, CA. Moderate pilsner malt aroma from a shaker. This is solid, clean good pilsner. It’s got a great bristly noble hop edge to it that makes it slice through the palate cleanly. The malt development gives it good structure and the lingering bite of the hops is satisfying. However, this didn’t live up to my expectations. It’s good, very good, but it’s not dazzling, vibrant, and vivacious. It doesn’t have dark corners seeking to be found. It’s out there, straightforward, well brewed, but not a complex enigma, in my mind.
Draft at Toronado. Nose is initially very perfume like with a light grass accent. Pour is mostly clear with a small white head. Taste is mostly soft bread with a light floral hop flavor. Not very bitter. Pretty good.
On tap in Santa Rosa. Now here’s a fucken good brew. Clear yellow appearance with a big white head. Floral / grassy nose with a hint of minerals / earth. Bone dry. Grassy herbal flavor with some hop spiciness. Super chuggable. One of the better American lagers.
Draft. Pours clear, slightly chill hazed golden orange with no head. Aroma is earthy hops, sourdough, orange zest, really fresh and aromatic. Taste is lightly toasted bread, earthy and grassy hops, light fruitiness, lingering but not overpowering bitterness. Great mouth feel for a pils. One of my favorite examples of this style.
Tap at FWIBF. Pours a clear yellow with big white head. Aroma is grass, hay, slight dry grain. Taste is a pillowey cornpuff, hay but overall very mild and not as malty as I’d remembered Czech pilsners in Prague some years back.
Keg at Flavor, Santa Rosa, 28/04/14.
Clear light golden with a big old off white head that retains well.
Nose is light bread dough, citrus peel, grass, caramel.
Taste comprises pale malts, caramel notes, vanilla, bread dough, straw, citris peel.
Medium bodied, fine carbonation, fresh and clean at the curtain call.
Decent pils.
Tap Toronado SF. Basically a perfect Czech pils, nice grassy hoppiness, clean light crackery malt, drinkable as hell, insanely tasty.