Carlsberg Elephant

Brewed by Carlsberg Brewery
Style: Strong Pale Lager/Imperial Pils
Copenhagen, Denmark

Serve in Lager glass

Can/Bottle, this must be one of the most horrible beverages in the world. No aroma and not a happy apperance. But most of all the flavor, tastes like they have added pure alkohol to a Carlsberg 3,5%!

Bottle, poured gold with a medium white head. The aroma is grain with alcohol, herbal and piney hops.

Clear light orange color. Small white head. Apple aroma. Malt, alcohol and apple flavors. Avg duration. Smooth finish with light bitterness. Slick/thin texture. Soft carbonation. Spare lacing.

Bottle - Pours pale yellow with a skimming of bubbles for a head. Sweet aroma with hops and ight malt. Flavour starts off sweet then the alcohol hits followed by grainy malt and a lingering dry finish. The alcohol hit is a bit harsh and masks any other flavours.

Has some fruity sweetness in the aroma as well as lots and lots of alcohol. It’s not a bad fragrance however, and is definitely inviting. Looks pretty good too, with a soft gold colour and head that slow dissipates. Not too fast and not too slow, and little bubbles coming up at a steady pace. The taste is another thing, though: taste like wet socks, skunky hops, lots of alcohol. Has a semi-dry finish with a hint of yuck. Worth the extra alcohol kick if you can stand the taste, but this is by no means a good example of a strong beer.

One of my favourite beers. The taste is not too strong, but is bitter and has a pleasant aroma with a touch of sweet. It’s absolutely not a pilsner, it’s more stronger.

22-AUG-2009, Bottle @Henriks. Tasted blind, with no clue to what it might be. The others guess cheap pilsner. We have been drinking micro brew all day, so it is dificult to catch anything in this beer. It is golden with little head. some malt and sweetness, corn and a little bitterness in the end. The thing that leads me to say it is not a pilsner, but a stronger beer is the density. It is surely higher than most pilsners. I still do not have a clue that this is an elephant. It is slightly dissappointing, but then again my taste buds are calibrated to more non-standard stuff. Quite OK beer, and I have had this so many times in the past, and still cannot nail it:-(

Smooth but not particularly pleasant. A decent entry to high gravity beers for some one who is used to drinking popular American piss water lagers.