la boheme: krusovice imperial

unlike the prussians, the czechs brew excellent beer. sitting around in a village somewhere in boehmen, it's common practice to rack up a coaster full of these. myself, i gravitate toward the helles or the dunkeles, those yin and yang of southern beers. there's nothing wrong with the pils, though, and in fact it's rather good. well done pils components: medium body bitterness light malt. pretty bubbly, nice and crisp if it's hot out. plus i believe there are some bonus bohemia flavors in there that come right out of the earth. of course, all beer comes from the earth so that's not special, but the czechs have a particularly tasty patch of ground and they know it.
that aside, krusovice is a solid pick from bohemia for my money, and i would take it over most anything from the rheinland or brandenburg and also prefer it to urquell. the brewery is pretty old too, from 1517 just after the reinheitsgebot. it's no 1050, but half a millenium's not bad. drinkability is quite high.