Cara Pils

Brewed by Brouwerijen Alken - Maes (Heineken)
Style: Pilsener
Alken, Belgium

Can. Pours a golden color with a small white head. Has a malty grainy aroma. Fruity malty grainy flavor. Has a fruity malty grainy finish with some bitterness in the aftertaste.

330 ml can. From Liège, Belgium. Cheap looking can, cheap tasting beer and guess what? It was cheap! Clear, almost no colour. Means almost water-like beer. Same goes with the flavour. Light hoppy aftertaste, quite stale though. Stale hoppy aroma. Watery big time. This is no good! Not far from the worst beer I’ve ever tasted.

Bottle 25cl. @ home.
Clear medium yellow orange color with a average, frothy, good lacing, mostly lasting, white head. Aroma is light to moderate malty, grain, toasted, corn, sweet malt, cornish. Flavor is light to moderate cornish sweet and light light bitter with a average duration. Body is light, texture is watery, carbonation is soft. Borring ! [20090314]

Can. Pale golden colour with a small white head. Weak malty aroma and taste with even weaker hoppy notes.

A Mes rate. In our hotel in Antwerp thanks to Ian.
My notes say: "F**king hell it’s bad." I don’t really feel the need to expand on that any...

Can, 33 cl. Let’s start rather positively: the beer looks good: golden, celar colour, with many bubbles rising and a little dirty white to grey, but stable head. If you smell you encounter a grainy, but also a malty smell. But the smell is and strange and unfresh. Than the taste: if you ever wondered what you would experience if you take a glass of beer, fill it for the half with beer and the other half with water, well, I think Cara Pils comes very close to that experience. The taste is light grainy, but flat and... watery. There is some dryness, but a bad one. But the overall taste you have is beer dilluted with water. Maybe refreshing, but as a beer you can’t get away with that, even if the taste isn’t ’bah!’ like I had with the (Dutch) Kaiser Pils. Let’s say it’s a bad but in the end drinkable beer.

From a can from an all night shop in Antwerp shared in my hotel room with Mesandsim. Palest lager I’ve ever had. Thin white head. Bad sweaty empty, grainy aroma. Really bad. I mean it has no body or flavour, touch of lemon on end that’s it.

330 ml can from a Belgian supermarket. A thin greyish head upon a pale golden colored body. Initial aroma of dough and vegs. Then some whiffs of acidulous fruits and hayish hops.Taste is grainy malts, rather unfresh. Some stale bittering hops underneath. Body is light plus. Short dryish ending. One of a dozen.