2 AROMA 4/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 4/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 7/20
Pours a pale yellow with a grassy notes a a light malt. Funk is evident in the first taste followed by honey and little else. Pretty average strong lager.
2 AROMA 4/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 4/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 5/20
Can, courtesy of Palme - thanks man! :-) This is a classic that I remember most Norwegians associated with Danish beer when I was younger, and a brand you "had to" drink if in Denmark. The relatively high ABV was probably the main incentive for the near-mythical status Carlsberg Elephant had in Norway, as no Norwegian beer at the time weighed in at more than 6,5 %. Since this was way before the craft beer revolution, I’m guessing the same pretty much went for Denmark. *cough* Anyway, here’s the rating: Pours a light. honey-hued orange with a medium white head lasting surprisingly long for this kind of beer. Aroma is very thin, with some sweet grains and pale malts, a bit of booze and not much more. Taste is pretty much what I’d expect from a strong macro lager: pale malts, cereal, booze and some more booze in the aftertaste. Damn, this is one unmasked drunken binge beer! It really tastes as if someone took a regular pale lager and poured a shot of vodka in it. Pretty nasty. The promised "sophisticated bitterness" (from the label) in the aftertaste is pretty much undiluted alcohol all the way. Not among the best strong lagers I’ve had.
2.3 AROMA 3/10 APPEARANCE 2/5 TASTE 4/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 11/20
Bottle. Pours a pale yellow with a large white head. Aroma and flavor are generically malty, fairly sweet, with with some grassy hops. Somewhat thick palate.
2.6 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 2/5 TASTE 4/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 13/20
One of the first beers I ever had, about 20 years ago. Grabbed a bottle in a pick 6 just to reminisce. Smells like a lager, looks like a lager, and guess what...yep, tastes like a lager. It’s not bad actually, and it’s got a little kick at 7.2%. This explains a lot from incidents as an underaged youth.
2.7 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 10/20
Some white head, not lasting, yellow
light sweetnes in the nose with some light hops - saaz?
Medium body some length, soft.
Sweet very lightly malted, some hops again?
Decent cheap strong beer
2.5 AROMA 4/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 4/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 12/20
Bottle; Pour is slightly cloudy golden with an initial frothy white head that dissipates fairly quickly, while leaving very light lacing in this glass. Amber colored? Not.. really. Grassy hop and pils yeast note on the nose, with a bit of breadiness and funkiness, really. This brew doesn’t impress in any way, and it is over carbonated by my standards.
3.3 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 12/20
50cl bottle, brewed in Germany to 7.5%. Buttery malt plus lots of crisp pine and grass herbs on the nose, full flavour is fairly well balanced between faintly peachy malt and crisp dry hops, then a dry bitter finish. A lot better than I expected!
2.8 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 11/20
Bottle into a pint glass.
The look is nothing special, tons of straw clear, white head, nothing special at all...The aroma is light skunky but not terrible (shocking especially how bad the regular Carlsberg is), light hops...Taste is ok, nothing good, nothing bad, better than your average American macro. A bad alcohol finish though.
Nothing to seek out but if your caught in a bad spot better than most marcos.
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