Alhambra Especial Premium Lager

Brewed by Grupo Cervezas Alhambra (Grupo Mahou-San Miguel - Carlsberg)
Style: Pale Lager
Granada and Cordoba, Spain

Serve in Dimpled mug, Lager glass, Shaker

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Bubbly light gold pour with white head. Skunky scent. More carbonation than I like. Bitter finish.

Bah, too much low quality malts and flavor of corn and rice adjuncts. Just your standard sub-par Pale Lager. Nothing to boast about.

The aroma is like creamed corn with grain. The appearance is slightly hazy gold with a thin head. The flavor is like the aroma. The palate is typical. Overall it’s nothing worth mentioning other than to say it’s not good.

Bottle. Big, frothy head that diminishes. Dark yellow body. Looks inviting, but that’s where inviting ends. The aroma is mostly malty, grainy, with a trace of hops. The flavor is moderately sweet and lightly bitter. Tastes of canned sweet corn. Medium body with a slightly sticky finish. Moderate to fizzy carbonation.

UPDATED: MAR 27, 2007 Head is initially small, frothy/fizzy, white, mostly diminishing. Body is medium to dark yellow. Aroma is trace hops (herbs), lightly malty (grain/cereal, husks), with a note of soap. Flavor is moderately sweet, lightly bitter. Finish is lightly sweet, moderately bitter, husky. Medium body, watery texture, fizzy carbonation. Grainy, industrial, blah.

Pours clear yellow with some fizzy whiteness that quickly dissapears. Aroma a tad bit sweet and a tad bit grassy. Flavor is typical watery sweet malts and corniness though there is definitely something else, almost chemical tasting in there. Not bad, but probably wouldn’t buy again due to the extra off taste.

Dark straw to light golden in color. Taller, foamy white head. Certainly skunk or actually closer to fox scent. Hints of grain and herbal hops. Sweet chalky flavors with quite some amount of floral hops. Somewhat watery in feel. Sort of sugary and syrupy flavors at time along with the grain and husky. Some hints of alcohol Mid to late quaff drag this one down further.

On tap at Tenerife, served ice cold. Pale golden colour, creamy white head. Very moderate aroma, a little malts, citrus and a hint of vomit. "Neutral" pale lager flavour, nothing offensive but not much to make you happy either, some weak hops in the finish.

Another pale lager to add to my list. Served in a bottle at Don Quijote’s restaurant in Valparaiso. Straw colored, had sort of a sweetness to it that made it unique. It is what it is.

This site makes me fill in a bunch of words to describe this in what can really be described in only two words. Industrial Lager.