Amstel Pulse

Brewed by Heineken Nederland
Style: Pale Lager
Zoeterwoude, Netherlands

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

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33 cL bottle. Pours clear and golden yellow with a small white head. Aroma is cornish and grassy. Grassy, slight metallic and cornish mouldy flavoured. Rather dry and bitter finish.

Bottle. Light yellow body. Grainy aroma all the way. Water,light bitterness, grains, light sweetness in taste. Very thin body, texture is very watery, light to medium carbonation. I wouldn’t drink this again, but I think it’s better than Amstel Light. Too much water though...

Bottle at a sportspub/Radisson in Trysil Norway. Only 74 Nkr. What a bargain! Creamy white good mostly lasting head. Yellow colour. Light malty and hoppy aroma. Liht bitter flavor. Short light bitter finish. Watery palate.

Fraca e refrescante condizendo com a impressão apresentada pela garrafa: Leveza. Apesar disso é uma boa cerveja quando o objetivo é se refrescar.

Pale golden color with a medium sized white head. Malty aroma. Ligt citrus flavor, a little boring. Beer purchased at a nightclub in Crete

330 ml pull-top bottle picked up my hotel in Sulaymaniyah, Iraq. Pours a pale gold color with very little head. Aroma is corn, grain and metal. Taste is a light nasty, harsh, paper-grain with some kind if bitterness to it. Palate is watery metal flavor. Only able to take a few sips before dumpping the rest.

UPDATED: FEB 28, 2012 Bottle. Yellow colour with a white head. Standard light lager beer. Light malty and hoppy aroma and flavour. Not bad, but not good either.

330 ml bottle. Brewed by Heineken Hungária Sörgyárak in Hungary. Budapest, Hungary.
Clear pale golden colour with tiny white head. Weak aroma of malt and fruity sweetness. No taste. Okay, weak taste of sweetish papery malt. Too weak flavour to be drinkable. Liquid disappears very quickly (in mouth, not from bottle). Should the name be REPULSE?

Bottle enjoyed at home
Very pale, big white head - the head is almost a 3 on it’s own. Smells of nothing, taste of nothing.... why? why? What was the plan about this "beer" - could they have done alcoholic water or is it maybe illigal to make just alcoholic water? neverless this beer is not what i call beer and a total waste of time.
i’ve rated this beverage up to the normal flavors, aromas and bitterness known to beer

Congratulations, Heineken, you have managed to achieve something that no other brewery has managed to achieve so far: to produce a beer so horrible that I couldn’t finish the bottle. Coors Light, Miller GD and non-alcoholic beers: I finish them all. But somewhere the line has to be drawn, and to me it goes right here. The bottle is really fancy, and the beer pours a standard light yellow body with a quickly disappearing smallish white head. The aroma is light sweet malty with some unpleasant sour hints. The taste is light sweet and light sour, with some faint hints of bitterness. And the flavours… They are strange, they are harsh and they are sour. Paired with an absolutely stunningly unpleasant mouthfeel these pungent flavours make the beer undrinkable. I find it hard to believe that the beer is supposed to be this horrible, so I might have gotten a bad bottle?
[33 cl bottle, from ICA Hasle, Oslo]

Golden with big bubbles but no head. The aroma is kind of grainy. Water, with minimal flavour. Again a bit grainy in the finish, a bit fruity as well.