Aldaris Luksus

Brewed by Aldaris (Carlsberg)
Style: Pale Lager
Riga, Latvia

Serve in Dimpled mug, English pint, Lager glass, Shaker

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UPDATED: JUN 9, 2008 This is decent, but more bland and mroe American-tasting than I expected, lacking the herbal hop character I usually enjoy in European lagers. It’s gold with a huge white head that steadily shrinks to a thin lasting head and leaves a little weak lace. The aroma is mostly corn tortillas with some grain, bread, grass, and pine. It’s full and pleasant, but defintiely heavy on the corn quality and lacking on hops. The taste is similar,grain, especially corn tortillas again, a light alcoholic quality, very light herbal bitterness, light zestiness, a hint of spiciness, hint of grass, and a grain-corn finish. The corn quality gets a little tiresome by the end. It’s more like a US macro lager with more flavour than many, and seems like a higher quality, cleaner, more well-crafted Red Dog, because of the dominant corn character. This also remidns me of Colt 45. Luksus is clearly better than both, but not a lot. I was hoping for something more along the lines of Svyturus, from neighbouring Lithuania, butthis lacks the herbal hop quality.

Bottle. Pours a pale yellow with a small, quickly fading head. Not much aroma. Flavor is grainy and cardboard like with some sweetish malt notes. No hops whatsoever. Not good. The Bud of Latvia?

Av allt ett öl kan smaka väljer Aldara Lukus att smaka nästintill ingenting - eller åtminstone så lite som möjligt. Eftersom det är en lager kan man kosta på sig att vara förlåtande och låta det gå ned i strupen för den här gången.

Bottle thanks to God of Thunder. Pours fizzy and yellow. The nose is bready and malty. The flavor is of water with maybe like a hop bud floating in it for a couple hours. Very watery. Not good.

Very light colored, with a relatively strong, semi-sweet, damp hay aroma. At first, there’s cereal grain and decent hop flavor, but that is quickly replaced by alcohol. I’ve certainly had worse pale lagers, but I’m happy to report there are better ones within easy reach.

Piwo z puszki w smaku malo chmielowej goryczy, płaskie, kartonowe, plytki ostry smak. Piję na kacu i daje mi chwilę orzeźwienia i ulgi, bo normalnie ocenilbym je chyba jeszcze niżej

Pours a slighjtly cloudy golden color with a short lived head. Mild aroma with a hint of bread. Mildly hopped. A little above average.

Please change that old picture. Luksus is reborn in new super bottle made specialy for this beer. Luksus is first Latvian super premium lager. It tastes very good.

Luksus = Luxury