Jurand Mocne

Aroma: 5 | Appearance: 6 | Mouthfeel: 6 | Flavor: 6 | Overall: 5

A light orangy bodied beer. The head is weak and settles into a delicate lacing. The aroma of this one is sweet and subtlely floral. The mouthfeel is smooth enough. And the flavoring is sweet witha hint of lemons and a dominance of alcoholic bite.

Aroma: 6 | Appearance: 4 | Mouthfeel: 5 | Flavor: 5 | Overall: 4

The Jurand logo has an armored knight astride a horse, fully decked out in armor and barding..., fording a river or stream of some sort, so that the legs of both the horse and it's rider are not shown. As someone who took some graphic arts classes back in the day, I respect a logo that both identifies the organization, and does so in a stylized sort of way.

But..., when it comes to this particular beer, the logo is perhaps a bit too ironic not to mention. How so? Only in that while the horse and it's rider are legless..., *so too is this beer*. Legless, and rather lacking in any sort of enduring long-distance affinity to what I like to find in a beer.

I'd swear that this the same beer as the Jurand Premium, with the alcohol cranked up from 5.7%ABV to an even 7%. Maybe. Maybe not. But what I do know is that this beer is decidely less interesting to me -- and that's not saying much, considering how marginal the Premium was!

Redder than it's less-alcoholic kin, but with a much bigger nose. The "old gym sock aroma" previously noted in the Premium is here, too..., plus some very "hot" malt liquor aspects to both the nose and the flavor profile, that does little to win me over.

I gave a marginal "Pass" to the Premium, since it was a fairly harmless enough beer. But this one? The 1.3 additional ABV percentage points may not sound like much. But really? Very unappealing. A very rough drinker, that might be more welcome to the gutter punks in downtown Warsaw than it is my hotel room in Jacksonville, FL.

Take a pass on this one, IMO.
//TB