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

bottled
common

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unknown

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RATINGS: 202   WEIGHTED AVG: 2.04   EST. CALORIES: 150   ABV: 5%
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COMMERCIAL DESCRIPTION
Alfa Hellenic Beer is a lager beer, with 5% alcohol content with it’s authentic Greek name and origin, that make it more familiar to Greeks and non-Greeks around the world. It is refreshing, easy to drink and brings to ones memory the authentic taste of Greece! Alfa’s unique light gold color and rich foam is the ultimate pleasure-maker. It is made of high quality natural ingredients (water, barley malt, hops and yeast) and its packaging is distinctive, with the bottle being a more modern version of the original Alfa bottle.


2
   AROMA 4/10   APPEARANCE 2/5   TASTE 4/10   PALATE 2/5   OVERALL 8/20
Spab (1194) - Toronto, Ontario, CANADA - AUG 6, 2011
330 ml (green) bottle from Premier Wine and Spirits (Halifax). Pours a clear lightish golden colour with small white head. Light grainy malt in the aroma with a whiff of grass. Taste is slightly sour grains and a light grassy finish. Meh.

3.2
   AROMA 6/10   APPEARANCE 3/5   TASTE 6/10   PALATE 3/5   OVERALL 14/20
Strangebrewer (520) - Chatham, Ontario, CANADA - AUG 5, 2011
bottle. Poured clear amber with a thin white head. Sweet grainy slightly hoppy aroma. Mid carbonation and feel. Light bready malt flavour with some bitterness in the finish. A nice standard lager.

2.1
   AROMA 3/10   APPEARANCE 3/5   TASTE 3/10   PALATE 3/5   OVERALL 9/20
gunnar (2634) - Sandnes, NORWAY - AUG 1, 2011
From tap at Crete. Pours light straw coloured with a thin white head. Aroma of grainy malts. Taste is very light bitter, neutral seems to be the melody of those light lagers. Ends rather harsh and uninviting.

2.1
   AROMA 4/10   APPEARANCE 2/5   TASTE 4/10   PALATE 3/5   OVERALL 8/20
ElDesmadre (468) - Mikołów, POLAND - JUL 28, 2011
Can. Straw yellow, head quite frothy but quickly gone. Sourish macro-malty aroma, some grassy hops. Carbonation quite high, not too watery. Taste is sourish macro-malt finished with some grassy hops but the bitterness (low to medium) is at least a bit more pronounced than in other Greek macrolagers.

2.5
   AROMA 5/10   APPEARANCE 4/5   TASTE 5/10   PALATE 2/5   OVERALL 9/20
meerbier (907) - Pijnacker, NETHERLANDS - JUL 14, 2011
Bottle@Hotel. Grainy and perfume aroma. Pale yellow, white head, good lace. Malty, light perfume, hint of citrus, light metallic bitterness. Medium body.

1.9
   AROMA 5/10   APPEARANCE 3/5   TASTE 2/10   PALATE 2/5   OVERALL 7/20
Koelschtrinker (7034) - Köln (Cologne), North Rhine-Westphalia, GERMANY - JUL 6, 2011
Von Heineken Griechenland habe ich exakt dies erwartet, ein hopfenbetontes, ansonsten aber unglaublich wässriges Bier. Besonders im Nachgeschmack ist absolut kein Aroma auszumachen. Besser dagegen der Antrunk, der ein wie schon gesagt hopfiges Aroma beinhaltet, außerdem noch eine leichte herbe. Extrem unausgewogen! Test vom 30.8.2006, Gebinde: Glasflasche Noten: 7,5,8,2,9,6 - 5,80

2
   AROMA 3/10   APPEARANCE 3/5   TASTE 4/10   PALATE 3/5   OVERALL 7/20
Atheist_Peace (515) - Halifax, Nova Scotia, CANADA - JUL 5, 2011
330ml bottle. Clear light golden pour with white head that doesn’t last and leaves almost zero lace. Smells like toasted corn with the faintest of lemony hints. Tastes like any other green bottled beer; corny with a faint light struck quality.

2.2
   AROMA 4/10   APPEARANCE 2/5   TASTE 4/10   PALATE 2/5   OVERALL 10/20
esp0r (792) - NORWAY - MAY 18, 2011
Can. Very pale, thin white head. Smells of wood and malt. Taste is light bodied with little sweetness, also some acids. Finish is medium bitter, not so many hop tones.

0.9
   AROMA 2/10   APPEARANCE 2/5   TASTE 1/10   PALATE 1/5   OVERALL 3/20
Thorpe429 (3823) - Alexandria, Virginia, USA - APR 14, 2011
Poured from the bottle into a pint glass at the Greek place around the corner from us. Color is quite dark for the style. Mild copper is what I would say. No real head or lacing. The nose is skunked hops and cardboard. The taste is just downright awful and I could barely stomach more than a sip, but I powered on through a few ounces. This beer is just horrendous. Wow. Light and skunky. Drinkability is quite poor, to say the least. Serving type: bottle Reviewed on: 11-24-2010

2.8
   AROMA 8/10   APPEARANCE 3/5   TASTE 4/10   PALATE 2/5   OVERALL 11/20
mzaar (442) - Varberg, SWEDEN - APR 14, 2011
Ah, what a nice aroma from this greek-dutch beer. Smells how a light lager should smell. Taste is ok but not as close to good as the smell promises.


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