Alfa

Brewed by Athenian Brewery (Heineken)
Style: Pale Lager
Athens, Greece

Serve in Dimpled mug, Lager glass, Shaker

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Hops aroma. Pours clear yellow-orange with medium white head. Taste is sweet, watery and slight bitter and carbonated at the finish which is abrupt. Carbonation is fizzy. Body is light. Overall, nothing special about this lager which I didn’t particularly like the amount of carbonation in my mouth. I would prefer another lager over this.

Bottle. It looks -- well -- like beer. A little darker than many LULs; it’s almost a Vienna. Nose is lime candy, metal, and a touch of Eau de Pepe Le Pew. It actually tries to have a substantial flavor, but what actually happens is it has enough flavor to be mediocre-to-bad. Lotsa adjunct, lotsa metal, lotsa cheap-hops bitterness, and a touch of Ivory soap. I’ll drink this one, but I doubt I’d ever drink a second one.

Bottle at Opa! Souvlaki in Astoria, Queens. Pour is light... taste is sweet, a bit tangy, nothing groundbreaking... decent lager.

On tap, served ice cold. Hence hardly no aroma recognisable. High carbonation, some apple in the taste. Not much bitterness, really standard lager.

October 2008: 33cl Green can, brought back from Crete to review at leasure. Being called Alfa, it is the first beer of an evening tasting lagers from around the world, Australia next! Poured into one of my Duvel glasses, it looked a solid lager, golden yellow and clear, clean and neat looking. The large white head that arrived as I poured soon turned into a wispy covering, even with the Duvel glass trying to keep it going with the carbonisation bubbles rising up the centre of the beer. Normal lager non-smell, gets my regular 3 for its nose. Refreshing, dry and a pronounced metallic feel and taste. Tangy and sharp but more of a sunshine beer than a serious session lager. Lacks the body and umph of a good Pilsner, a holiday beer, nothing more.

Bottle 330ml.

Clear medium yellow colour with a average, frothy, good lacing, mostly lasting, white head. Aroma is light to moderate malty, grain, toasted, sweet malt, corn, grass notes. Flavour is moderate sweet with a average duration. Body is light to medium, texture is watery, carbonation is soft. [20120331]

Hoppy aroma, pale yellow colour. Resin hop flavour with bitter aftertaste. Mediocre lager.

Bottle at Ungstrup’s - Thanks. Clear yellow - white head. Egg, sweet malty, light candy sweetness, corn, light bread, light metallic, toasted notes.

Can at Ungstrup. Clear golden coloured with a small white head. Malty aroma of hay, grain and hops. Malty flavour of hay, hops and grass. Hoppy finish.

Can. A dark golden beer with a thin lazing white head. The aroma has notes of grain. The flavor is sweet with notes of malt, metal, and hay, leading to a metallic finish.