Bowmans Golden Lager

Brewed by Independent Breweries (New Zealand)
Style: Pale Lager
Papakura, Auckland, New Zealand

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

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bottled, brewtopia, melbourne. truly awful stuff that i avoided until the end of the beerfest when this was all that was left to try. pretty pale, cardboard, plain flour, nothing

Pale lager, pallid look, paltry head and manufactured meanness of flavour. Why bother?

UPDATED: FEB 11, 2007 Tasted 23/08/2006. 330ml stubbie, shared with Jono, at the Cellar-Vate August tasting. Bright, golden, with a short white head. The nose reeks of cheapness dressed up as sophistication: a little grassy and background sharp phenolic note that not many people would notice if cold (and out of the bottle). I suspect it’s a quick, warmish lager fermentation with little lagering. Clean, dry and totally inoffensive but insipidly uninspiring. Much like Monteith’s Golden. Someone called it a BBQ beer - I’d probably use it to clean the BBQ, rather than drink it at one. Retasted 11/02/2007. 330ml bottle at a friends place. Grassy notes on the nose. Mettalic notes in this finish. Dry and unappealing, just as last time. Not as sharp in the phenolics, though there is still a fairly salient vinyl note in there. No malt, no fruity hop.