Carlsberg Elephant

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

Serve in Lager glass

UPDATED: FEB 3, 2009 On tap, not bad for a commercial strong lager, golden colour, malt aroma, sweet and alcoholic, tipical bitter finish

In my recent trek through the beer case at my local Northcoast Coop looking for beers I have somehow neglected this on came up along with regular Carlsberg. Clear gold with white head. Nose of citrus hops. Lively mouthfeel. Flavor of malts with some grassy hops. Alcohol in the finish.

No 332
Rated: 05.02.2008
Bottle brown, 330 ml
Appearance: Pours yellowish, golden, perfectly clear and shiny, body carbonation is visually lively, head is almost white, but in fact creamy white, frothy with a very slight lacing, initially head is medium and slowly decreasing to a small froth.
Aroma: Interesting, initially alcohol is well hidden, some very sweet, juicy and grainy, pronounced malted barley accent, very mild, milky and all in all hidden under a thin head, very,very weak, a bit medicinal.
Flavour: Front is strongly accidic and salty, than what comes is citrusy bitter hoppyness, mineral palate and nose, alcohol is noticable, but due to high effervescence and hoppy - citrusy bitterness, the beer is very lively and definitely not dull. The flavour is intense and also grainy with this characteristic grainyness it reminds me much of a Carlsberg Pale Lager with its all malt accidity and clean - thin grainy accent. This is much more exposed and pronounced.
Palate: Body is light to medium, texture is a bit dry, tangy, carbonation on palate is lively, accidic, salty, tangy, moderate alcoholic.

Bottle from Sondra. Slightly cloudy gold color with a small white head. Aroma is grain and grass. Medium is about medium and the carbonation is fairly vigorous. Flavor is a bit sweet, and there is almost enough grassy hop to balance. Sort of a decent malt liquor, if such a thing can be.

Tastes like a light beer with a shot of vodka in it... I would sooner drink a bud light.

Wow, this is bad. Skunk and corn is everywhere, and a horrible medicinal flavor. Yuck

Smells like a skunk shat in it. Looks like a skunk peed in it. Flavor is surprisingly mellow and not as skunky as expected. At least it’s 7.2 ABV. That’s always worth something, even when Honkeybra cloved the hell out of one of his homebrews.

UPDATED: SEP 13, 2008 11.2oz bottle. Pale filtered golden color, with a fading head. Green aroma of hops and alcohol. Very Saazy Eastern-European flavor going on. The heavy malt body is well complimented by the hops. Not an IBU bomber by any means, but pretty decent for what it is. Worth trying.