33 Export

Brewed by Heineken (France)
Style: Pale Lager
Rueil-Malmaison, France

Serve in Dimpled mug, Lager glass, Shaker

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We organized a very interesting tasting of Lagers (basic to average quality): 16 different beers from different countries. Price range: from EUR 0.3/bt (supermarket) to EUR 3.5/bt (take-away at sushi bar). All beers have been blind-tasted; we were 4 people, great beer lovers and wanted to know If there is a difference between all these basics summer beers. Answer: no, all were more our less watery, the worst one was bad water. 33 export was among the worst beers. Maybe in the top 3 worst beers on earth ! ! ! Here is the ranking: #1 Sapporo Yebisu #2 Baltika 3 #3 Duff #4 Obolon Svitle #5 Svyturys Ekstra Draught #6 Heineken #7 Kirin Ichiban #8 1664 #9 Carlsberg #10 Burger #11 Kronenbourg #12 Pilsner Urquell #13 Königsbacher #14 33 Export #15 Tsingtao #16 Asahi

Botlle. Like a typical macro brewed lager... no taste at all. I don’t recommend it

Semi-bitter taste, somewhat watery with metalic palate. White foam stays for 90 seconds. Dark-golden colour.

Vietnam Version: labeled as 4.5% Pours slightly brassy, clear gold with foamy white head. Scent is grain.....curiously, also a hint of Sprite (?) Taste is bready, watery. Weak, but not completely awful...amazingly.

500mL can from a grocery store in Aubigny-en-Artois, France. I wanted to try this as it seems to be the local swill everyone drinks and leaves the bottles laying around town. Pours a nice gold with a large white head, and only the most faint of aroma’s, somewhat sharp I guess, if there were more of it. Flavour is also virtually non-existent, with an impressive smoothness to it. No significant off-flavours. Wow, trust the French to achieve what every macro brewer in North America wants to produce but can’t, a virtually odourless, flavourless, smooth alcohol delivery system. Glad to have tried it, but wouldn’t bother with again, although it’s cheap as hell (60-80 Euro cents), so it’s worth trying if you’re in the area.

Bottle 100cl. green plastic.

ABV: 4.5%. Clear light to medium orange yellow colour with a small, fizzy, fair lacing, mostly diminishing, off-white to white head. Aroma is light to moderate malty, pale malt, vegetables, plastic smoke. Flavour is light moderate sweet with a average duration. Body is light to medium, texture is watery, carbonation is soft. [20120623]

Plastic bottle from Intermarche supermarket, Les Charmilles, France. Pale golden coloured with sweet toffee and malty flavours and slight sugary finish.

Viet Nam version - pours a clear pale gold with a minimal white head, very bubbly. Smells are very muted - bread/toast. Taste is mildly sweet, but no real presence of much flavor, no discernible hops or malt in flavor. More like drinking a seltzer.

Bottle@Ulfborg. Pours clear golden with a thin offwhite head. Aroma of dms, green apples, som malty notes and fruitiness. Flavor is sweet and fruity with some paper and pear notes. Medium to thin body, average carbonation.

Plastic bottle 1000ml @ fonefan
Pours clear golden with a white head. Aroma has notes of malt, grain and floral hops. Taste is light to medium sweet and light bitter. Body is light, texture is thin, carbonation is soft.