Castle Lager

Brewed by South African Breweries (SABMiller)
Style: Pale Lager
Sandton, South Africa

Serve in Dimpled mug, English pint, Lager glass, Shaker

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Light golden beer with a artificial white head that’s quick to hollow out. Nose is of sugar and sweat. In the mouth it’s lightly malty but mainly just uniformed sweet and sulfuric. Mouth feel is thin and fizzy like a cola. Unpleasant chemical finish. Pretty damn terrible, indeed.

Bottled from Mitra, Naarden. Clear golden colored, thick head. Somewhat malty nose. Cardboard flavor, some bitterness, dry in finish. Pretty awful.

Bottle, Weak aroma of malt and discrete fruit. Golden yellow colour with small white head. Malt flavour. An ordinary pale lager.

From bottle in south african restaurant in Hasselt, Yellow colour with small and unstable white head. Smell: some industrial. Taste: watery, sweet and some hops. Nothing special, the food was much better over there!

From P.E. Can, 250910. Yellow with bubblehead. Aroma weak of malt. Flavor with corn and DMS

I believe the version of this I tried was brewed in Tanzania and not South Africa. For Castle Milk Stout, the South African and Tanzanian versions are combined though so I will just put my rating in here and not make a fuss about it. I tried this on two separate occasions. On one, it might have been the best beer I tried in Tanzania (which is not saying all that much, frankly) but the other it was kind of metallic and nasty. I will focus on the good one. It’s a nice, mild, pilsner-like pale lager. The hops are reserved but definitely there and it was overall very clean and very drinkable. Of the several lagers I tried in Tanzania, this was probably the closest to Pabst or other American lagers and also my favorite.

Can. Clear golden colour with a small white head. Aroma and flavour of malt, grains and hops.

330ml bottle. Very clear and bright amber colouyr witha soft crown of loose white bubbles that rapidly collapse. Strong malt aroma that is bland and matches the flavour. Dry in the throat and is typical of a standard pale lager.

Bottle at Delirium. Pours a clear golden color with a medium white head. A smooth nose of sweet grains and light spicy hops. The flavor is so simple there is nothing to dislike; sweet malts, grainy. Nondescript.

Crystal clear pale yellow, quite lively and head remains intact. Aroma of fruity hops & grains of amlt & corn. Easy drinker in really hot weather and quite pleasant as far as lagers go.