Aldaris Pilzenes

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

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

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Bottle from Tbone, thanks! Pale blonde. Grainy, soft grassy aroma. Grainy flavor with some old hops. Watery mouthfeel. Mediocre.

Bottle, from an ethnic food store in Scunthorpe. Pale lemon gold, thin shortlived white head and moderate condition. Estery malt and trace hops in the nose, thin and sweetly malty in the mouth with little else going for it, short finish with a slight hop note.

500ml bottle at 4.2%. Pours light gold with a large, frothy head. Aroma is corn and lemon. Taste has some soft lemon, corn. Easy drinking.

Tall brown 0.5 litre bottle just out of date when opened. I found it in Cambridge with a few other foreign goodies. Drank on 8th Jan 2012. I poured it three times into a 0.2 Litre Veltins Pilsner tulip. Looks like a typical Pilsner, golden, clear and bright with a snow white head on top, each pour produced the same result. The smell was also typical, some grain esters but not a lot of anything else. The taste, crisp, tangy and with a dry hop bite: again your usual Pilsner attributes. Mr average in everything about it.

I was on holiday while drinking this, so automatically judge this bit higher. The color is nice gold yellow, taste nicely bitter. Good on Carbon gas. Nice Pilsener. ---Rated via Beer Buddy for iPhone

Bottle. Golden colour with no head. Grainy aroma with a little hops. Oily on palate.

UPDATED: FEB 29, 2012 Bottle and on tap in Riga. Golden colour with a white head. Standard lager beer, nice and easy drinkable. Moderate malty and hoppy aroma and flavour.

Way better than expected. Nice bitter aroma with some fruits. Well balanced regular-styled pils.

Pours clear pale golden with a low head. Aroma is manure with a hint of malts. Flavor is a bit better but still not particularly enjoyable. Bad.

Bottle from Turkish shop on Smethwick High Street. A standard Lager. Actually, to be fair, it’s a pretty reasonable one: clean, crisp and not disgusting. Pleasant dry malt. Pretty refreshing. The aroma wasn’t terrible either. Better than expected. (bottle marked as 4.2%)

Zunächst einmal großen Dank an Nils C., der mir dieses Bier aus Lettland mitbrachte. Das Aldaris Pilzener ist optisch pilstypisch hell, der Schaum geht auch in Ordnung. Getreidig-zitroniger Geruch. Ansprechend malziger und herber Geschmackseindruck, wenn auch etwas metallisch. Dies hält sich aber sehr in Grenzen. Malziger Ausklang. Ein würziges und malzbetontes Pils, das eher an ein Dortmunder Export erinnert. Trotzdem ist das Bier eine Empfehlung wert. Ganz gut.