Bell Lager

Brewed by Uganda Breweries (East African Breweries)
Style: Pale Lager
Port Bell, Kampala, Uganda

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

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(Bottle 50 cl) Courtesy of my colleague Jeppe who was kind enough to bring this with him back home - in his dirty socks... Pours a clear, pale golden with a dense, white head leaving some lacework. Good, malty nose. Very thin and watery though with basically no hops. 100507

2011..ahem, vintage with some exotic detritus swirling around in the bottle. Pours straw with a high, well-retained, lacing white foam. Slight pine, fenugreek, raffia and lime aroma. Decent, bizarrely oaked-like vanilla sweetness on the palate, with pine. Grassy, soft and lightly buttered. Perfectly decent and free of adjunct notes. But does score a bonus point for listing ’permitted stabilisers and correctives’ on the ingredients list. Mmmm permitted stabilisers and correctives. Not so scared of the detritus now.

500ml Brown bottle drank during a German and lager tasting evening ( Aug 2011). The beer stood up well against some better known German Pilsners and Exports. It looked the typical lager/pilsner, very pale gold, clean and clear, on top the white head you’d expect. The smell was of grains with a slight malt sweetness becoming stronger as the cold beer began to warm a little in the glass. Regular crisp lager/pilsner feel and taste, the blend of hops and barley giving a refreshing, if uninspiring flavour to the brew. Would never have known it wasn’t a European lager/pilsner, so well done to who ever over sees the brewing. Better than your average lager (just).

Ehh. Gift from SJ. This is almost everything I hate about bad beer, but the bottle was at least not green. Thin pour, metalic tasting, corn and grain. Watery.

Bottle 500ml. @ [ Tasting by Fin & Loz ].

Clear medium yellow colour with a average, frothy, good lacing, mostly lasting, white head. Aroma is light moderate malty, grain, toasted, sweet malt, vegetables, corn. Flavour is moderate sweet with a average duration, fruity, sweet malt. Body is light to medium, texture is watery, carbonation is soft. [20111021]

Bottle at Fin & Loz’s tasting with Jan, Charlotte, Craig, Stella & kids consumed 21.10.11 Given this beer by a work colleague called Tim, cheers Tim! Pours very light in color, almost a silvery gold with a filmy white head. light cardboardy aroma on nose, I am strugging to describe this beer, it is totally non-descript , thin, watery, nothing there really. A4 A4 T4 P2 Ov6 2.0

Bottle at fins ... palest yellow...grassy lemon hop nose... grasy light hop...very subdued flavour... hint of lemon...

Bottle 500ml. A clear light yellow colour with an average high white head. An aroma of malt and hops. The taste i light sweet and light bitter. A light body, watery texture, soft carbonation and an abrupt finish.

Bottle. Quite ordinary pale lager. Golden yellow with white head. Why not add somee local flavour from plantains, cassava or millet?

Clear pale yellow with a white head. Aroma is sweet, light malty and sugary. Flavor is medium sweet and light bitter. Dry finish. Watery. 080711

500 ml bottle in Sudan. Pours a pale golden color with a small white head. Aroma is a weak watery malt. The taste of this beer is better than most of the other pale lagers in East Africa (if that says much). Palate is light and non offensive.