Almaza Pilsener

Brewed by Brasserie Almaza (Heineken)
Style: Pale Lager
Beirut, Lebanon

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

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bottle - Pours clear yellow and has minimal aroma. It tastes of grainy malt with some light hops flavor similar to euro macro lagers. It’s watery and light bodied and not completely and totally awful, but not good by any means. It’s like a poor man’s Heineken.

This is a good standard light beer. Crisp off the lips, it has a slight sweet touch to it. There is a sweet wheat nose. The head is white and healthy- the color (i estimate is 4 SRM) is a light clear yellow. Compliments a spicy gyro with hummus very well.

33cl green glass bottle pours clear gold with thin white head. The aroma is sugary sweet with apples, sugary malts and floral hops. The taste is similar with sweet apple esters and sugar sweet malts. As a modest level of floral hops surfaces about midway so too does some malt graininess. It stays just short of too sweet for me likely due to the slivers of grainy malts.

light golden, small head. slightly skunked courtesy of green bottle. hint of maltiness, but pretty flavorless. forgettable.

Green bottle in Beirut. Pours a clear very pale straw color with slight white head. No aroma. Very light body. Little malt or hop flavors. Very dry (adjunct?) finish. More carbonation than flavor. A well-marketed beer.

This is the first beer I ever drank in my life. After trying it, I swore off beer because I thought they all tasted like it. Thankfully, I found other labels and now I just boycott Almaza. Aroma: The skunky aroma attacks you as soon as you open the bottle. What they do to subdue it is store it at -2 degrees Celsius (28.4 F). But then they lose everything.. Appearance: it pours an okay pale color and an okay white head. The head doesn’t last though. Taste: It tastes like it smells. Disastrous. If you drink it when it’s just a bit warm, it tastes exactly like piss (or what I believe piss tastes like). I really can’t describe it otherwise. Overall: Almaza brewers don’t know what they’re doing. They should stick to making juice or something.. Beer is definitely not their specialty.

Green 33cl bottle, best before 2nd July 2009, drank on a cold and wet evening in March 2009. Poured into a Veltins Pilsner stemmed tulip shaped glass. Ever wished you had never bothered buying a beer? Looked OK, lager/pilsner golden yellow, with a white bubbly head. Pale golden yellow to be more correct and with a head that soon turned into a wisp and collar. There is a strange smell cheap supermarket pilsner/lagers have, this had it. Maize is used in the brew (according to the rear label), that will account for the lightness of colour and weakness of aroma and taste I suppose. I think some RB/BA’s would call this a ’lawn-mower’ beer or something simular. I’ve never wanted to go to Beriut and this beer hasn’t changed my mind. This is a bad, bad beer and unless you are ’drinking around the world’ don’t bother trying it.

Clear golden. Medium white head. Ok maltiness with light sweetness. Pretty stale.

Very pale yellow colour with a lasting, strong, decent size white head. Smells malts and grains, fresh and like a decent pilsener. Tastes quite watery, some iron, malty. Bit thin bodied, okay carbo. Sub-par pilsener.

What can you say about this... Other than its your typical international macro lager. Skunky, metallic aroma and flavor. At least I got my Lebanon rating.

Bottle. Smells like cheap American beer. Taste pretty bad too. Reminds me of a Heineken. ---Rated via Beer Buddy for iPhone