Alfa

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

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

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Bottle @ M; BRGR, mMontreal. Plae yellow boring lager. Hay grassy flavor. Clean easy drinking but never had a greek beer before & had to try

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.

Can @ FOneFan. Clear pale golden with small white head. Aroma is malt and grainy. Flavour is malt, grainy, hops, medium sweet, little watery, little grass and a little bitter.

Can @ fonefan tasting. Clear golden with a white head. Aroma is sweet, light malty and light corn. Flavor is medium sweet and light bitter. Sweet finish. Watery. 310312

330ml bottle. Very faint aroma, slight lager funk and some sweetness. Poured a ginger ale yellow with a small white head, no lacing and light carbonation. Taste isn’t bad, light earthiness, corn and caramel. Body is thin, but what would you expect? Overall, not a terrible lager, but kind of bland. Not offensive, though.