Castle Lager

Brewed by South African Breweries (SABMiller)
Style: Pale Lager
Sandton, South Africa

Appearance: Pours a clear, deep gold body with a half-finger-high head of bubbly, white foam. Smell: Ah, a sweet-smelling aroma of light corn syrup generously brushed over some simple, basic barley. Taste: Then, it’s flavor time! Lightly grainy, excessively pale malts with sweet hints of sucrose and corn syrup. There’s a lacking hop presence and accompanying bitterness, leaving the beer to finish somewhat sweet. Mouthfeel: Light-bodied. Medium carbonation. Drinkability: A bit of a disappointment. Particularly adjunct-laden and I’d prefer it to finish a bit drier. Ah well!

flowers aroma,white foam, clear, amber, light acidic,short finish,light body, creamy, lively, a beer

12oz bottle. Clear golden color. Aroma of sweet malts and a water logged cedar chest. Sharp bitter finish. Lots of corn flavors. AHH, maize.

Pours a slightly hazy pale golden yellow color with a white head. Aroma is honey, fruity, clove, paste, and herbal.

500mL bottle, pours a pale golden with a thick white head. Aroma is a feint grain and corn. Flavour is a subtle malt, corn and grain. Quite an offensive tasting brew.

Bottle 33cl. @ home.
Clear light to medium yellow orange color with a average, frothy, good lacing, mostly lasting to diminishing, white head. Aroma is moderate malty, grain, corn, light hoppy. Flavor is moderate sweet and light bitter with a average duration. Body is light to medium, texture is watery to oily, carbonation is soft. [20090824]

A really refreshing pale lager from South Africa no less. Nothing offensive, even after it warms up a little. Suprised. Aroma was subtle sweet malts, very hard to detect. Does the lack of any aroma, good or bad make it bad? I didn’t mind it with this style, but that’s just me. Flavor has some light malts, just a tad sweet but mostly just a clean malt bill. Easy to suck it down, but didn’t really make an impression on me other than it was as quenching as a glass of ice water.

Bottle. Medium high fluffy but lasting white head. Clear yellow body. As far as I can judge there is a distant sweet barley malt aroma. Weak and sweet barley malt flavor with corn and little hops bitterness. Watery and boring. Low carbonation, short aftertaste.