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.

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

Clear yellow with a rocky white head. Grassy aroma. taste is medium malt with green apple notes and light bitterness.

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?

500ml bottle in a shaker. Pours light golden with a thick, white head. Aroma of tin, dry white bread, and hardly any hops. Flavor the same. Don’t waste your time with this beer.

UPDATED: SEP 18, 2011 On keg in Riga. A blonde lager with a large white head. Metallic aroma with bready yeast notes. Flavours of caramel, bready yeast and barley. Nicely bitter. Moderate carbonation and a little CO2 prickle. A metallic aftertaste spoils this beer which could otherwise pass for an Aussie lager. A long biscuity linger and a foamy mouth-feel.

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.

UPDATED: MAY 29, 2011 Big brown bottle. Nice clean aroma. Looks decent in the glass. First taste is rather rude for a lager, comes across more like high gravity or cheap malt liquor. Aactually seems to be much more than the 5% listed here, more like 7%. Gets a little more civilized as the session continues. However it still has that little nasty bitter background.

Bottle. Golden bodied with a medium eggshell white head. Nose is grainy with malt, soft honey notes, light lemon and grassy Euro hops. Taste is bready malt, honey, buttery biscuit grassy hops and light, zesty lemon. Body is light-medium with a pleasant dryness and a crisp feel. Ends with a touch bigger hop bitterness, more honey, bread dough, grains and light lemon.

Tasted from a 500 mL bottle purchased in Littleton, Colorado. Pours a clear pale yellow appearance with a large white head. Pale malts and just a hint of skunkiness in the head. Fairly rounded body for a Pale Lager.

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