1.3 AROMA 3/10 APPEARANCE 1/5 TASTE 3/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 4/20
Man, they must grow an awful lot of corn in South Africa because they certainly didn’t spare any in this beer.
1.9 AROMA 3/10 APPEARANCE 2/5 TASTE 3/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 9/20
Gold color with a white fluffy head. Aroma is slightly metallic and corny.
2.5 AROMA 3/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 11/20
I am not a great lager/pilsner fan, but this was OK.
Brown 750ml bottle, from Morrison’s supermarket, best before 2007, drank in March 2007.
Poured into two Hoegaarden Grand Cru tulip glasses, looks like a lager. Clear golden yellow, straw blonde when held up to the light. Large white head straight after the pour, soon dispersed to almost nothing.
Lagers don’t really have much aroma to my thinking, this was no different, a slight hoppy, wheaty, nothingy smell.
Crisp dry taste, hops are in there, not a bad taste, thirst quenching in my opinion.
Watery mouthfeel, but this is a lager, what do you expect? It holds it’s hop flavour and dryness.
This is not a great beer, but it was just what I needed this evening, something light to go with a salad meal. I have no problems with it and would be happy to have another if asked, wouldn’t buy another, but I’d drink one!
2.5 AROMA 4/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 11/20
Originally rated December 2002. Lightly golden with good white head. Medium hop scent, smooth mouthfeel and thin bodied. Bitter taste with light dry finish. Nice refreshing beer, but still was expecting more from this one.
1.7 AROMA 3/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 4/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 5/20
Draught at a nice lunchtime spot in the Cape. This is a golden coloured bog standard lager with a slightly sweet taste. Quite drinkable, just bland.
2.6 AROMA 4/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 11/20
Bottle bought in Johannesburg. Light yellow colour with a tiny white head. Light malt and hoppy aroma. Very typical industrial mild lager beer. Mild hoppy and malt flavour.
2 AROMA 3/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 4/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 8/20
Unpleasant lager with a poor malty finish. Sadly its widely distributed in southern Africa.
2.8 AROMA 4/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
roasty, banana, pale, clear, light sweetness, lightly bitter, light body, astringent,
2.5 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 10/20
500ml can pours pale golden with a small white head. Aroma is light malt and hops. Taste is light malty sweet with undesirable cheap hop bitterness. Just a typical lager, nothing special.
2 AROMA 3/10 APPEARANCE 2/5 TASTE 4/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 9/20
Light colour...half finger head, unpleasant commercial beer...watery texture, with a bitter aftertaste
5 AROMA 10/10 APPEARANCE 5/5 TASTE 10/10 PALATE 5/5 OVERALL 20/20
My favourite beer in the world. Nice and bitter, refreshing and loveley!
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