2 AROMA 4/10 APPEARANCE 2/5 TASTE 4/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 8/20
Bottle. Clear golden with tiny white head. Aroma is malt and a little grainy. Flavour is malt, medium sweet, hops, little grainy and a little bitter.
4.7 AROMA 9/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 10/10 PALATE 5/5 OVERALL 19/20
If you ever expected something like this, you are a real believer. These Lao people know how to make a really good beer, and they’re sooo proud about it. Simply Awesome.
3.5 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 14/20
Bottle (330ml):
Some light malts & faint grassy hops, a fair bit of adjuncts such as vegetables and possibly rice. There is a bit of grain in there as well & a very faint amount of skunk towards the end.
Crystal clear & light straw coloured with a two-fingered size, foamy white head that has very good retention, managing to stay without receding for well over two minutes.
Grassy hops and some vegetable adjuncts to begin with and some faint lager malts. The flavour is basic but very nice. There is some mild honey and a touch of lemon.
Very smooth & very creamy feeling, the beer is light bodied and goes down incredibly well with a beautiful crisp finish.
Up there with the best lagers I have ever tried, it may not be quite as good as I remember when drinking it on the banks of the Mekong but it is still a great beer.
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2.2 AROMA 4/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 3/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 9/20
Straw yellow color with a thin fizzy white head. Aged grassy hops in the nose with some skunk and raw grains notes. White sugar sweetness with some toast. Not very interesting.
2.8 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 11/20
Bottle at home, picked up at Classic Deli, Cowley Rd, Oxford, Sept 2011. Pours warm gold with a white head, it has some busy carbonation. Taste is a little grainy, though it is refreshing and there is a bitterness, slight metallic twang. Ok. A5 A4 T5 P3 Ov11 2.8
2.3 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 2/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 9/20
I had several of these beers while in Luang Prabang, Laos. The beer had a light gold color with a foamy white head that had modest cling and retention. Its aroma was a light grainy hops with touches of malt, yeast, and barley. The taste was somewhat grainy and bitter with a slight sweet effect. It was fairly smooth with low-to-average carbonation and a lighter, wetter mouthfeel.
2.2 AROMA 4/10 APPEARANCE 2/5 TASTE 4/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 10/20
Shared this bottle with Craig at the Brauhaus. Wish they’d used more rice so this could be a cream ale. Pours a blonde colour with a thin white head. Aroma of bready yeast, caramel and barley. Similar flavours. Mildly bitter with lingering grassy hops. Mild carbonation and CO2 prickle.
2.3 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 1/5 OVERALL 9/20
crap country tick in brau house ... golden amber ... rising bubbles ... thin white head ... sweet suger grassy lager hop nose ...over fizzy... way over fizzy ... so cold its barly any taste ... light bitterness ...soft grassyness
2.3 AROMA 4/10 APPEARANCE 2/5 TASTE 4/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 10/20
This was a rank auld beer. aroma is just of cheap tat. Budweiser rices come to mind. On the palate I suppose it might rinse nicely with a curry or some oriental dish, but on it’s own it’s a penance to drink. Tastes of that ricey Budweiser-ness, accompanied by just a tint of hopping to carry it a head height above the bottom shelf. It is what it is, but give me Bud over it.
1.8 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 2/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 6/20
Single bottle purchased from Co-op Wine & Spirits on 08/11/2011 in Calgary, AB. Colour: Mostly gold with low head. Nose: Mild yeast and malt, pickle juice, boiled corn. Taste: Light sweet, medium-light bitter, medium-light sour. The hops don’t taste fresh at all. There is a late stinging bitterness that is unpleasent. Some sour jelly throughout. Quite disapointing. Sticky mouthfeel.
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