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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A pretty good pilsener - great as a palate cleanser or for on a hot day. Medium gold, clear, with a short-lived white head. Crisp mouthfeel with weak-ish carbonation is well emphasized with mild but noticeable hop bitterness. A bit of carmel malt in the finish, a bit sweeter taste than the malt character would suggest - due no doubt to the addition of corn. Quite reasonable thirst quencher.

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.