Casablanca (Casa Beer)

Brewed by Société des Brasseries du Maroc (Heineken)
Style: Pale Lager
Casablanca, Morocco

Bottle. Slightly hazy, light gold color with a medium white head. Sweet, grainy malt aroma. Grassy, slightly sweet and a metallic finish. Nothing special. C

Middle of the road lager. Had 330mL bottles at Mezah Zalagh, Fes, Morocco. Probably best of all Moroccan beers, though some metallic aftertaste. Nothing special.

Bottled. Golden beer. Grainy flavor with some malty tones. Finish is little bitter. Interesting beer.

[812-20071104] 355mL. Sweaty yeast aroma has a mildly burnt floral note. Clear, orange light brown body with a quick foamy white head. Floral yeast grain flavour has a hint of wine. Light-medium body. Overly floral -- Oh, it’s just like any other beer, only more so.

Bottled 33cl. It pours a golden beer with a nice white head. The nose is of sorbet, biscuits, toast with a good hop character. Some hay and apricots too. The taste is nicely malty, biscuitty with some apricots showing up. Rather sweet with a low bitterness. Slightly salty. Some sorbet and lime appearing. Quite enjoyable and smooth. Light bodied with a finish with hints of marzipan and flowery hops. I quite enjoyed this beer.

12-oz. You know you like that label--the date palms, the die-cut edges, the subdued colors. Very nice. Very much puts you in the mind of a beer you don’t often see. Very happy to find this one today at my local supermarket. The Mediterranean/Lebanese place near work promises this on their menu and they never have it. Harrumph.
Pours a somewhat hazy and rather flaky-looking medium amber. Not a hallmark of a clean and bright pale lager, that haziness and that flakiness. Thin little spritz of foam pretending to be a head. Big ol’ skunky aroma, but it’s, you know, Moroccan skunk, and exotic, so keep an open nostril about it. (Really, it’s just regular skunk. I was just kidding about the exotic Moroccan skunk thing. That was a lie. I was lying).
Fizzy, watery body, can’t really taste much of anything except for some wet cardboard on the mid-palate. Acetic, somewhat chemicaly finish. Gee, I’ve never had a beer quite like this before. Oh, wait. Never mind.

Bottle, purchased at Epcot. Pours amber with an average, off-white, lasting head, good lacing. Aroma is heavy malt (toasted grain, meal, cereal), average hops (grass), and average yeast (sweat, dough). Light bodied, sticky texture, average carbonation, and a metallic finish. Average duration, light sweetness, acidity, and bitterness.

Bottled at a moroccan restaurant in Manhattan - which had no windows and a broken sound system and was completely empty. It was like eating in a monastery. Why is it written that every country must produce its own weak yellow lager? Because in case you were wondering - this is one of them.