Alfa Eindhoven Special Reserve

Brewed by Alfa Bierbrouwerij
Style: Pilsener
Schinnen, Netherlands

Serve in Flute, Footed Pilsner

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Bottle 30cl. Pours a clear golden colour with a normal size head and good carbonation. Smell is very hoppy and grassy, nice fresh smell. Taste is alot like many other mass-produce pilseners, but this was only brewed for export to the USA and is not brewn anymore at the moment.

Beware of beer sales. Got a 6-pack for $3.99 "club card price" - figured, at 4 bucks, its cheaper than budweiser and anything’s better than Bud. I was wrong. This smells and tastes very musky, dusty, copwebby arm pit-like. Fizzy urine yellow with an astringent finish.

Bottle. Poured light yellow with small head. Grassy nose and average palate. Clean to the end. Overall an average brew. Drank one cool, and the other ice cold. The colder it is better it tastes.

A very refreshing, well-balanced summertime beer from the Netherlands. Not overpowering, not dry, a clean taste with little bite. Not the best from the region by any means, but better than most crap they market from that area (see Heineken & Oranjeboom).

Green bottled Dutch beer. Pours light yellow in color. Smell kind of skunky. Has a sort of grassy aroma as well. Flavor is kind of malty. Decent taste. Has a hint of skunkiness. Not enough to really bother me though. Nice full mouthfeel for a beer of this type. Better than some other Dutch beers I won’t mention.

This junk smells like it was made with skunk cabbage. I forced my way through the 6 pack, as I refuse to waste beer no matter how bad. This was that bad. Typical yellow color, and feel of a lighter lager. Tastes grassy, hay-like, anyway you put it, this stuff tastes more like somebody threw a houseplant in a Juice Tiger and Wallah. Jack LeLane would be spitting this mess out.

Pours a medium amber color with a big and quickly dissipating head. Aroma is earth and metallic. Flavor is yeasty and bready. It finishes dry and quick. An average pils.

A good solid lager with bready and cookie flavors. Not too much hop flavor to get in the way either. A palate point for not being too fizzy on the palate.

Lots of grassy scent assaults your nose as soon as you pour it. Even before I could focus my attention on this beer for a review, I noticed it’s scent spewing forth from the glass. Nice white head fades into a soapy layer. Slight bitterness up front. There was some sort of sweetness in the beer, very light and candy like. It may have been from a soda I had drunk immediately before trying this beer, and I didn’t cleanse my palate right. Anyhow, this sweetness, there or not) fades to tart dryness. Really didn’t think this beer was that good. I usually drink it straight out of the bottle as my drinking buddy likes this beer but never has glasses for us when we partake of it.