Lidl Have Done It Again!! UK Brewed Staropramen Vs Czech Brewed Staropramen
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The rot started (imho) when they started brewing Stella in the UK. Then they changed the % and everyone else seems to have followed. Boycott foreign beers brewed in the UK!!!
I do 😀 Fridge full of Budvar, Bitburger and Alhambra 1925
I already do ...always look on the label but there's not many left now.... Warsteiner and Bitburger to name a few....
hangover inducing chemical soup
the climate brigade would kick off again
Can't beat a Paulaner..some genuine stuff
Just look at the BARCODE starts with 50 it is from the UK , 859 is Czech
Good tips
500 or 509 is the UK identifying numbers at the beginning of the digits.
@@wiggygeorge523 all numbers from 500 to 509 are from the UK, so any number starting 50 is from the UK so he was right lol
The fact they are happy to put their name on the UK version is beyond me
Because it's the same company?
@@cehaem2Not the same beer though
@@josephruff6412 I never said it was.
because muneh
It’s called money
Staro used to be my no1 fave! Then it got uk brewed (I didn't realise this for ages) thinking my taste buds must of changed, I have no idea what it is anymore. Its like buying fake goods. I spend all my time looking at labels at the supermarket now!
Likewise
Same mate, i couldn't understand why this beer i loved for so long wasnt doing it for me know more. Kept going back to it and kept feeling disappointed and gave up eventually. Was only through watching this channel i found out it was getting brewed in the uk.
@@DavidB-py8nz It's not right is it! Like buying fake goods, yet we pay top money for it! Grrrr
@@philipharvey6720
@@philipharvey6720scammed we are
I f***ing love this man's passion 😂❤ the Michael Sheen of Lager!!
I Just dont touch UK mass produced lagers.
My go to is Budvar brewed in 🇨🇿 12 cans Asda 330ml for 10, 83p a can
Same, was at a family gathering not long ago and we had corona I’m sure every bottle tasted different not in a good way
Budvar should only be brewed in Czech it’s supposed to be protected geographically
That's a good deal
The big 500 ml bottles of budvar from Asda are even better but the small tins are nice too !Bidvar just too drinkable tho lol
Get your bad self to the nearest Polski Sklep
Sorry to swear BUT this is Absolutely Fecking Fantastic news! Wonderful just wonderful. Lidl should make a big deal about this and should shame other supermarkets for not doing this. Not long back from Spain and to drink the Spanish Estrella was magnificent as well as other Real Spanish Beers! I have A Lidl at the end of my street going with a shopping trolley and filling it full of Prague version Staropramen for this weekends beer sessions!
My local Waitrose (NW London) seems to stock Spanish larger more than anything else.
There are still a few lagers available in British Supermarkets/shops that are brewed in their originating countries, I wouldn’t say this is something to scream from the rooftops
I'm with you here, bro, this is amazing
For those that are interested......Steinhausers back in my local Aldi, not tampered with still brewed in Germany, still 4.7% 😊
Disappeared from my Aldi.
I'll recheck.
@@paulmurray3086 Yes just got in i have two Aldi near me on Friday one had it in the other one on Sat.
It’s like listening to a song with crappy headphones, you don’t realise what you’re missing till you put some good ones on and you think; how did I put up with the bad ones for so long..!
Winds me up all this wonderful foreign beers and its brewed in Burton on Trent UK. :(
It should be illegal to mislead people like this.
Will be getting some of these. Birra Morretti is another beer that they ruined brewing it in the UK. They want you to slowly forget how good the real thing is, but no hiding it when both are available to compare 🍺
My wife works on the street where they brew Staropramen - oldspring! Amazing aromas wafting around the street. It's always a pleasure to meet her after work.
When you said your wife works on the street I jumped to the wrong conclusion at first!
@@MarkSantaCruz Staropramen rearanged is Strap on Erma!! so who knows if she's called Erma!!
@@MarkSantaCruz It's not far off.
I went to the Pilsner Urquel brewery tour many moons back. If I remember correctly, Pilsner Urquel is their premium beer & Staropramen is the non premium beer.
Incorrect, beer smells like urine, spirits smell great, I could sniff a bottle of whiskey All day
£2.79 is outrageous. Fk Tesco & Asda for how much they charge for UK brewed "export" lager.
But you can get 3 of them for £6 from Tesco if you have a clubcard, so works out to £3.03 per litre
3euro a bottle in lidl Ireland today. The taste is sweet not malty. Tesco here do German and Austrian beer's for 2.75 euro on clubcard. Which is nice.
To be honest years ago I bought this lager and really enjoyed it because it was unique tasting. A year or so ago I bought a crate and felt it wasn't that good. I did not realise they had started brewing it in the UK and that would explain it.
Went off uk lagers for 15 years. I thought I was allergic! Gaseous, bad tastes bad feel. No lift at all.
1. Found your channel
2. Found German purity-law works of art. They're all so yummy.
2. Love Beer again. I was trapped in the hustle (like most) and I was not seeing genuine works for all the farty-fakes.
Yes my man!! It was like a revelation to me too. I always look for imported lagers now.
Exactly the same happened to me. I thought I'd developed some sort of intolerance to lager/beer.
Thanks for the fantastic tip. Just been to Lidl and there on the shelf was plenty of the real Czech Staropramen at £1.79 a bottle. However, not only that - they also had the real deal Czech Budvar at £1.75 for a 330ml bottle. Came out with 4 bottles of each and a big grin on my face.
Simon I have always had the view that UK mainstream brewers cannot brew lager
Oh they can, the problem is they are driven by profits over quality, because in this country most people don't care abotu quality and are happy to continue to drink slop
Never forgave Burton brewery after buying Mansfield brewery they then demolished it and brewed Mansfield ale in Burton they massacred the taste it went from having a lovely nutty flavour to tasting Metallic and tasteless
Wasn't it Wolverhampton & Dudley?
Sacrelidge
I dream of a pint of original Mansfield Bitter 😢
Used to get the 'original' Staropramen on keg in Bass pubs in the mid nineties when it was imported. I'm sure it was stronger than 5% ABV. The aroma of the original back then had quite strong overtones of banana on the nose, presumably due to the yeast they used. It was really good back then but you couldn't drink more than two or three without getting quite drunk! I'll have to get to Lidl and compare the imported stuff with how I remember a pint of 'Star' from 25 years ago......
After I watch a video on CZcams lately…I always end up dashing down to Lidl 😂
Ditto... Especially on annual leave and I not flown out.
I live in Croatia for six months of the year. I drink Starro as my beer of choice and I get a crate of 20 X500ml for £12 a case plus on most days I get a fee glass or a free “Krug” when I replace the crate Tesco Staro when I drink it over there tastes like pencil sharpenings and where as Staro in Croatia tastes like mothers milk
Lived in Czech for two years, love love,there beers,👍.
Many thanks for this. Just picked some up and it's now a new favourite. Less malty than Budv and no where near the hop zing of Urquell. A nice balance point between the two when you don't want those two extremes. I thought I stopped liking Star a while ago but turns out it was just the uk version.
You can also find many imported Central European lagers in the small Polish stores.
I can remember when the UK brewed stuff first appeared. I used to buy Staropramen when it was still imported then one day it didn't taste as good. I looked at the bottle and saw it was now UK brewed. It was different enough I could actually tell. I haven't bought UK brewed Staropramen since.
That's my exact experience with Staropramen! Loved it then one day I thought "urgh". Read the label ; brewed in UK
I came back from the US having sampled Sam Adams' Boston Ale in Boston and then found some one selling it it the UK. Consider my surprise -it was a totally different beer, brewed in the UK of course. The policy has always seemed to be keep the Branding and produce any old crap in the UK. No one will notice.
@@nickbrough8335 Yep. I tend to avoid all "brewed in UK" versions of beers from other countries.
I recently had some UK brewed Stella that wasn't too bad though. What with Simon having some good things to say about UK Staropramen and my Stella experience I live in hope that we might turn a corner, at least with the more premium beers.
@@AndyFraserA My experience. I used to look out for it, if I ever bought bottled lager (very rare, needs to be hot and sunny!). Then, several years ago, I had a four pack and it was just awful. Musty, stale, lightly skunked - completely dominating the syrupy decocted wort and hop taste. Looked at the bottle and could see what they'd done. Brewed in the UK.
Our water isn't suitable - hard Midland water v soft Moravian water. Doesnt matter how you "chemically treat it" with gypsum or whatever - if 95% of the product is different, it's never going to be the same.
@@jujuUK68 It won't be Moravian water, though, as Prague is in Bohemia. Moravia is further east.
Lidl should definitely make it a marketing point they import these big brand beers from the continent..... because the food has improved so much, if they keep up with the high quality beer, I'll shop there more
Lad is doing God's work. Not all heroes wear capes. Kim's favourite beer (Ichnusa) is also delicious. Has she tried Messina Cristalli De Sale? It's a lovely drop. Cheers 🍻
I live up in Shetland, all we have is Tesco and Co-op, gutted! Although Co-op have recently got imported Estrella Damm in and it is LOVELY
Good for Lidl. I just found out Kronenbourg and Fosters UK are the same. With the latter ABV being dialled down. Just shows how fecking lazy the brewers are. There taking us for mugs!
Staropramen used to be one of my favourite lagers... until they brewed it in the UK! 🙄
After watching this, went to Lidl and got a few bottles of the imported, had a UK bottle left in the fridge and compared them. Absolutely night and day! Hoping Lidl keep the genuine Czech version in stock from now on! Thanks for the heads up, Simon.👌
Ahh simon. Best beer news I've heard all year.
Just come back from a top up aldi shop. So disappointing with their selection now. They seem to just want to copy famous macro brewers. Lidl, however, are doing something different. Importing genuine smaller, cheaper European brews of real quality. Please, please, please keep doing what you're doing lidl!!
I've just been to LIDL to stock up, said £1.99 on shelf went through at £1.79. Thoughts? Much hoppier aroma, and such a smooth aftertaste, I can 100% tell the difference and i'll be going LIDL for the foreseeable to keep this in the beer fridge! Great find.
The matching Staropramen pint and half pint glasses are brilliant. I’ve got them but not at liberty to divulge where from…
Great tip Simon. Bought a couple of bottles today from Lidl and decided to try them whilst I watched Georgia beat Portugal in the Euros. The irony is the Czechs got knocked out in the other game against Turkiye. So, the Czechs go home to drink their wonderful Staropramen and we have to carry on watching boring England while the uninitiated continue drinking Burton Staropramen or worse Madri
A blinding glimpse of the obvious! How can you brew the (ostensibly)same beer in a different country with different water characteristics? It's ALWAYS BEEN IMPOSSIBLE but the brewers continue to kid us about it! Personally I think German beer brewed IN GERMANY under German purity laws is best!
I recently vowed never to buy "foreign" beers brewed in the U.K. again. When I saw that my local shop had four pack cans of Leffe Blonde I bought one without even considering it. The second I poured it I knew I'd made a mistake not checking. Still drank it.😬
Compare the 330ml can of heineken to a 440ml can, the 330ml is brewed in amsterdam and the 440ml brewed in Edinburgh
Cheers for the heads up.
I picked up the last bottle today in Bridgend Lidl, as it was right in the back hopefully it isn’t too skunked.
The main problem brewing under licence (anywhere, not just U.K.) is that the water is different. So they have to try and change other things to country balance that. You are better off buying a U.K. beer, like Korev, for example.
You absolutely right and nailed the issue here! I'm a biggest fan of Staropramen, living in Finland. I've wondered the very same thing comparing two brewery's licensed versions of the lager. And my decision and delusions were exactly the same as yours, even not having possibility to do tasting face to face for both versions simultaneously. My toughts being the same, they taste very much different to each other! The Estonian brew were very bright, hoppy and crispy checkish lager, instead the Finnish brewery lager was a typical dull and straight standard lager. I mean the real Staropramen I can taste eyes closed, but the Finnish license I cannot say is it local main or Velkopopovic or Foster's even! It's a shame, but it's obvious you'll have to travel to the fond to get the real thing, the label itself won't be any quarantine for the real quality😢
I don’t really drink staropramen much, but I had it from Tesco s few weeks ago and thought it was average, then read the label to find out it’s uk brewed , which is always a disappointment. I picked up a staropramen today in Lidl, and , after the skunkiness goes, it’s a fantastic beer. Will definitely be buying more!
Hopefully my local Lidl will have this in!
Thanks for the heads up 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
Saw this, went to local. No good. Drove 16 miles took all 11 off the shelf £1.79 got home and 3 burst at the cap. Gutted.😢 hope it's worth it when I get it to proper temperature. Cmon fridge...
Saw this video & picked up a couple of bottles of staropramen from Lidl and I will say I'm impressed.
Stumbled across 500ml bottle of Urquell in Home Bargains, gave my brother a try who was going through a Staro phase and he was like wow
I did my own comparison tonight after seeing this video and managed to get some in my local Lidl.....I cannot believe the difference , its a completely different beer.
Noticed that Uk Staropramen has a slight aroma of burnt toast and the imported beer is so clean smelling. The Lidl beer is so so good........brilliant video Simon!!
Great channel. Thank you. I'll be looking out for the Czech-brewed stuff on your recommendation. Cheers.
Brilliant honest response to what we are all being ripped off with thanks for the acknowledgement.
My nearest Lidl is in Kendal , which is about 45mins to an hours drive away, from my location ..I know where I’m going Saturday , also need some of the Ginger Shot drink , that’s good
Even when there arent foreign beers on the regular alcohol shelves of Lidl. They regularly do special weeks of foods from Poland, Spain, Portugal, Greece etc during which they usually have an imported drink from those places too.
I've only just been to Asda and saw this on the shelf. Read the back and put it back.
Staropramen is the only UK brewed European lager I really like. Whilst in Lidl, I'll definitely pick some up (especially as it's £1 a bottle cheaper-and probably better too)
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Golly - I wasn't expecting that comment from you
Nice one Simon, in late 2022 I brought a box of 24 330mls of the imported Czech staropramen from Costco 👍🏻
Will wander down to my local Lidl get some of these the festbier you recommended recently was decent picked up the mini keg.
Tried these myself after seeing this . I enjoyed the British brewed one and always have , but the real one is softer , cleaner, smoother, fresher and the thing I agree with is the hard water earthy comment . . After a few swigs it completely changes. Loads better . Hopefully Lidl will keep stocking this . Thank you for telling us about this . Cheers Simon 🍻👍🏻
Love your face at 9.38 seconds!!!!!
Beer lover tastes the great beer 😂😂😂
You're welcome, Simon. Happy that you read my comments :)
So lucky to have a Lidl near me. Another trip there is definitely in order
Sainsburys small 33cl cans of Heineken are dutch brewed there 44cl cans are uk brewed massive difference...right iam off to lidl 👍
Only muppets drink heineken. I only drink German beers. Wake up and smell the hops
@@jcarr5690 Paulaner helles from tesco is my go to lager & wheat beers my fave style.
Heineken small cans Dutch brewed well decent & shockingly superior to the larger uk cans sold in sainsburys & same price would be great if Simon done comparison
@jcarr5690 why are you commenting on and watching a video on Czech beer if you only drink German
I know where I'm doing the grocery shop.. normally I drink IPAs and the like but it's so warm at the moment that this makes perfect sense.
The UK version is anything BUT "perfectly balanced", it tastes more like someone has poured battery acid in it. I'll be off to Lidl tomorrow to get me some Czech Staropramen :)
Great wee review and just shows how the same beer can taste different when brewed in another country. I love picking up a beer in Aldi or Lidl that I haven't tried so will give this a go. Keep up the good work. 👍🏻
Thanks for sharing, just tucked into two. Unbeatable!
That's funny - i had one of those recently and was not sure, what exactly was wrong. I blamed it on the temperature, the glass, weather, myself ;-)
Uk brewed beers would probably taste better if they moved the brewery’s in northern England or Scotland where the waters soft.
I agree, lake district water would be my preference.
Just a quick question about UK brewed cans of beer (eg Stella Atrois), The UK ABV in cans are (like you say) weaker, but are they also weaker at the pump in our local pubs? Thanks for all the work you put into this channel 👍
Thanks for the tip Simon, hopefully my local Lidl stocks it?
Ichnusa must have changed since we used to drink it in the eighties in Decimomannu NATO base in Sardinia. It was always bloody awful.
Cheers 🍻 i appreciate the head's up on that one. Star' is a nostalgic friend of mine. Im popping down Lidl tomorrow 😊🤙🏻
the beers might be a slightly different colour because of the ebc readings on the malt used over here, can vary a bit even though would be the same variety.
I remember fosters being imported in massive pint tins!.. bloody lovely,that is until uk started brewing it…all uk made lagers are chemically made.. not brewed
Never really rated Staropramen, even when it was the real thing...always found it a bit too dry...Pilsner Urquell every day of the week though...but I'll try a bottle.
Popping down to my Lidl this afternoon
Excellent video Simon and great timing as my missus just picked up a bottle from Lidl and I thought err! I then seen this video and ran out the kitchen to Czech it was the proper version 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
Went down today and bought six.Cheers for the heads up
It’s crap that a lot (majority) of foreign lagers are now brewed in the UK (even worse they’re watered down) but there is still plenty of foreign brewed lagers available in supermarkets and shops, just stick to those
I want to know which one doesn’t give you gas or acid reflux. I used to drink it whilst I was over there on few occasions. Never felt crap the next day.
The secret to Star O is they burn or caramelise the wort in gas fired copper vessels (we went on the brewery tour) I can’t imagine how they would replicate. To to be fair to the MC site in Burton they brew beer properly. They still brew white shield exactly how they did back in the day for example.
No wonder I thought Star had "gone off". Will check out Lidl asap.
All brewed at samlesbury in Lancashire which is why they all 'taste' the same.
I've only ever tried British Strap-a-man-on. It's ok, not particularly offensive, but I'll deffo have to try the Czech one. Cheers!
Never even thought to think where it was brewed. Never quite a fan of staropramen when compared to some other czech beers but this has got me wondering whether Kozel and Plzen are also brewed under licence in uk too... will have to take a look at that.
Thanks for this. Just picked up a few bottles. Very tasty and I don’t mind the smaller bottle size personally
Poor Kim, she only popped round for a bowl of sugar......
You are welcome Simon 🙌 was looking forward to this review
I buy the Czech version in cans from my local shop. Not imported by Molson Coors.
I watched this earlier n went to Lidl n got 8 bottles just trying first one n first thing I noticed was the smell of the Hops as soon as I popped one open,,much better beer🍻👍
Ichnusa is my favourite beer im off to sardinia in august. She has good taste.
This is perfect! As soon as I spot that 859 barcode start I know I'll be taken care of when it comes to authenticity and quality! BTW in Asda the Staropramen Unfiltered also comes imported, delicious!
Pilsner Urquell budweiser budvar or Staropramen which would you say is best
I picked a few of these up a couple of weeks back. Much nicer. Shame about the green bottles though. They were on the top shelf in my lidl which makes it worse. If they cotton on to people liking the imported one, they will probably put a stop to it.
7/10 "its ok"
8/10 "its on a completely different level"
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😅 2/10 & 8/10 he meant
Same as becks. San Miguel. Corona. The list goes on its not the same.
More guest appearances by Kim, please!! :-) Good demo of the sh!t we are having to put up with - buy original, I reckon.... I just bought some German and Czech from beermerchants...Fantastic stuff, SImon!
Thank you Kim 👍
Great video. You just get straight to the point of the matters people care about. No wonder you have 70k+ subs including myself now.
Normally an ale drinker but recently found significant improvement in health by removing gluten. Lager normally has much lower levels of gluten compared to ale but I find UK lager appalling. Massive surprise following trip to Seville last week where all they sold was Cruzcampo (the local brew). Really enjoyed the beer and great price too! I’m now on a downer as find CC in the UK is another beer made by Heineken in the UK. Need to find an import shop…
Have to admit I bought some in Liddle the other day and l thought this is nicer than normal didn't realise
Tell you what I miss, Miller, can’t find it in any shops nowadays
About 20 years ago they had it on tap in my local and in cans in the off licence. Then they were only available in bottles but I haven't seen it around for a few years now. Went to florida in 2006 buying beer for the room a six pack of miller bottles was around 3 dollars (about £1.60 at the time).
Even Singha is brewed in the UK now
One of my favourite brews but then I drink Czech brewed version in a can