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, English pint, Lager glass, Shaker

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Pours a light straw golden color with a small white head. Malty and crispy with a some buttery notes. Tiny hint of hops and fruitiness. Mildly fruity start with a strong malt backbone. Crispy and slightly tart before a bitter but smooth finish. Light to medium body and moderate carbonation. Better than other light lagers and much smoother but still bland and bodiless.

Aroma is grassy and beery. The flavor is similar to the aroma along with a hint of sweet malts.

Light straw color; Light to medium body; Aroma of malt, & cereal/grain; Flavor of malt, grain, and some hops; Not too bland; Average lager.

Light, one might as well drink Pellegrino or Perrier. Empty calories with and empty nose and palate.

Bottle. Pours a golden yellow color with thin foamy white head, with some lacing in the glass. Aroma was mostly malts, grain and cereal in the nose, a hint of hop and grasses. Flavor was where I was surprised. Very strong hop flavor, which I did not expect from the aroma. Still mostly malts of a cereal and sweet note. A clean, balanced finish. Very balanced overall. I was not expecting this beer to perform as well as it did. I would get this again.

bottle, clear yellow, pretty badly skunked so it is hard to see much of anything in this beer,

Date: September 24, 2011 Mode: Bottle Source: Minneapolis Beer Fest. Full description not available as I sampled way too many beers in 4.5 hours!

Bottle @ Minneapolis Beer Fest. This is pretty much terrible - just corn, grass, and some malt on nose and taste. Bleh.

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.

Tap @ Henners, Corralejo.
Pours clear golden with a small, frothy, white head. Good lacing. Aroma is sweet, light crispy, mild citric and grassy. Medium carbonation, light but with good dryness. Flavour has mild crispy malts, light vanilla, a bit of brewing cereal and mild grassy hops. Fine lager.

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.