Casablanca (Casa Beer)

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

No 562
Rated: 08.09.2008
Bottle brown, 330 ml
Appearance: Pours pale golden, practically yellow, very bright body with sediments floating in the body texture, carbonation of the body is moderate, saturation too, head is initially medium but very quickly decreasing to small, very faint lacing, head is white in colour and foamy in texture, after a minute what leaves is the small crown on the body surface.
Aroma: Very milky, slightly sour and harsh like from brewing cereal, gentle notes of corn, rye and barley grains, slightly too dull, not clean, dusty.
Flavour: Quite similat to a ’Castle Lager’ in the terms of malty background as the grainy components create sour taste but in terms of hoppyness it is much worse. There is no hoppyness on top only some faint dull aftertaste that is the effect of hops and apart from it sour, salty cereal and slightly corny mixed with barley accents aftertaste. Finish duration is quite long in its dullness and sourness. Visible difference in between English brewing culture (Castle Lager - SAB) and French brewing culture (Casablanca Beer - Tanager Morocco).
Palate: Body is light, texture is wattery, carbonation on palate is moderate to light, finish feel is chalky and astringent from sourness and accidity.

At a stand at EPCOT (love the World pavilion). Typical pale lager in ts appearance (yellow/straw, white head), aroma (some malts, corn, other adjuncts). The flavor is also mainly from the malt and the adjuncts, but it had a spolied and skunky quality that made it hard to drink. It also had this metallic and industrial tinge to it. Not good.

[Thanks a lot, Kasper Adenila.] Nice label and cap, but then it all stops. Clear yellow look with fast off-white head. Corn, maize, metal and poison. A typical overseas product.

Clear golden with a white head. Sweet grainy aroma along with some dusty metallic scent. Flavor is sweeter than i like it and with the finish being metallic i cant give this one alot.

12 oz bottle. Light pale malt and nobel hop aroma. Clear light golden with small white fine head. Light pale malt flavor with moderate hop spiceyness. Light body with clean crisp very spicey finish.

12oz bottle. Pours with a white head, thinly hued golden body - rather nice for a lager. Taste is lime, salt, earth tones (maybe straw). Some bitterness in the finish, but this is actually metallic - battery acid type favor. A respectable attempt but utterly fails overall.

Pours gold with a thin white head. Smells of sweet malt and some earthy hints. Tastes of sweet malt, pepper and some hints of citrus.

Appearance: Light golden. Just a little bit of head. Bubbles. Aroma: Some malt and grains. Citric? Taste: Quite malty and hoppy. Not much more. Info: 330ml bottle, 22/6-2007