Binding Lager

Brewed by Binding-Brauerei (Oetker Group)
Style: Pale Lager
Frankfurt, Germany

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

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UPDATED: JAN 30, 2007 Aus der flasche from an off-license up Münchener Straße, Frankfurt-am-Main, Germany (2006).
This is loud and proud the Strongbow Cirrus of the beer world, it seems so entrenched in image it could easily pass as the closest running to Beck’s at the ’Ministry of Sound’ without the patrons even noticing it was poison, crazy stuff!!!
Produces a dull gold in the glass. A massive flurry of atmosphere dependent bubbles erupted up to an thick, loose as a goose, cauliflower white head that held and daubed the glass with such vigour. Aroma, peppermint and celery spring to mind - both ends of the spectrum, why not!? - a little sweet, candied lemon on end. Featherweight chardonnay in the mouth, literally. It is seamlessly fruity, sour, light malt showing and all together like a well attenuated wine as it dries out in the back end. A slight astringency meets what I guess were hops showing the infusion of peppermint and cooked celery I got on the aroma. It finishes crisp, bubbly like a cheap champagne. Quite thin overall. A palate cleanser it was not, an Amstel/Heineken clone it seemed closer to but overall I must say that the only sample I got was BAD!!! (33cL, BB 30/09/06)

Bottle. Pale golden pour with a short fickle white head. Smells mashy with a hint of sweet malt. Not a very pleasant taste, corn, thin, wretched would do it. Aftertaste is vaguely sweet and carbonic.

Bottled. Pale yellowish golden colour with small white head. Aroma is grains, grass, malts and quite sweet. Flavour is quite much the same. Not that nice.

(bottle) Clear and pale golden colour with a mid-sized steady white foam. Grassy hoppy nose with a touch of malts. Light sweet flavour and taste, light bodied mouthfeel, slightly hoppy watery finish. Haven´t had such a tasteless brew in a long time. Bland and boring.

UPDATED: JUN 7, 2003 had this with a pizza in Frankfurt.. nothing special in this, saw alot of homeless people drinking this, cant be good sign.. not a good beer

Draught. Golden colour with a medium white head. Light malty aroma. The flavour is malt and slightly bitter. Very boring and tasteless.

This comes in a clear green bottle and pours clear with a skunky aroma. This is watery and doesn’t have a lot of anything going on.

American Standard Lager wanna-be. Appearence is comform with beer. Aroma stinks like rotten oats(?). Taste watery and dry. Reminds me of "Sol" but is even worse. "Binding Lager is different from normal beer" - true! With a third of lime juice probably drinkable.

Can: Artificial sweet smell. Yellow nearly green with a littled head. No flavor, that means not disgusting, that means, one extra point. On the lable: "With the finest ingredients" - from which planet????

Smells like chemicals and farts. Thin gold-yellow color and foamy head. Turns sweet toward the end, then a bad aftertaste. Thin body. What the f&%/ is an "international taste" as indicated on the can?