Chinggis Mongolian Lager

Brewed by Chinggis Club
Style: Pale Lager
Chingeltei District, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia

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

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The thread came up about what brewpubs you most wanted to visit. One of my answers was the Chinggis Club. That would mean that I’d be drinking good beer in Mongolia. Some what argue that after Steinbrau in Bishkek I’d popped a very similar cherry and they’d be right but that doesn’t dissuade me from wanting to visit the Chinggis Club anyway. I mean really, the proper Central Asian equivalent would be a brewpub in Tashkent called the Timur Club and I didn’t find anything like that. If I did, I would have gotten drunk and disorderly there just like I did at Steinbrau and plan to do when I finally do arrive at the Chinggis Club.

When I saw Bov had rated this beer, it was only fitting that omhper was in the room and we’d just finished getting Iranian beer from down the street. Nobody can get Iranian beer down the street except for me. Bov is apparently the only one who can get real (as in not brewed in England) Mongolian beer down the street. So we worked out a trade. (I only wish he held one of my local breweries in the same esteem I hold BFM so it would feel more even).

With this much behind it, how is the beer? It has a slightly hazy golden colour. It has a hoppy aroma that at first is almost precisely like pee. It loses some of that as it warms and just smells like pee-like hops later. There is also a rather surprising anise note in there for some reason. The body is fairly light and quite dry. In fact, flavourwise this is a pretty hoppy beer with fresh bread notes to back it up and a bit of tart graininess. As with Bov, I’m not really sure which of the Chinggis Club beers this is supposed to be, as it is only labelled Chinggis Beer Premium, but it seems a north German pils to me. Not bad, despite the initial litterboxy aroma. And I still want to go to UB and put my feet up at the Chinggis Club.

Bottle. Aroma is somewhat bretty? Infection? Flavour has a light brett touch, which is really nice. But is it supposed to be this way??

Bottle at home. Pale yellow pour, thin white head. Aroma of faint brett, spicy and some basement. Flavor is mild, bretty and refreshing. Watery, and possibly infected, but strangely appealing.

Flavor is very light but ok bitterness. Color is very light yellow with a white head. Thanks to Rasmus40 for this.

Bottle. Pours a clear golden color with a white head. Has a fruity malty grainy grassy bready aroma. Sweetish malty grainy flavor. Has a sweetish malty grainy finish.

Bottle at Bierborse fest in Koeln. Not a terrible lager, slight hint of sourness adds a bit of interst.

Clear pale yellow with a white head. Aroma is sweet, light malty, corn and sugary. Flavor is medium sweet and light bitter. Dry and light bitter finish. Watery. 080711

Bottled 500ml. -from Bier Imperium, Vienna. Yellow coloured, medium sized white head, corn in the nose. Tastes like infected beer but BBE date is August 2011 (I’ve had it in June). Acidic malty with some bready notes. Probably have to try another one so until than quite bad rate.

Bottled@Monks Café Sveavägen, Stockholm. Pale yellow colour, small white head. Aroma is cooked vegetables, malts, some rice as well as some slight rotten vegetables. Flavour is much the same along with some rubbery notes.

Rather plain, boring pale lager that adds nothing to the Budweiser/Heineken experience.

Relativ ausdrucksloser hopfig-getreidiger Geruch. Antrunk noch schwach herb. Im Mittel wässrig und unangenehm säuerlich. Der Abgang ist fast nicht vorhanden. Lediglich ein paar Bittersprenkel geben ein Lebenszeichen von sich. Ansonsten wirkt das Bier ab dem Antrunk verwässert und mit Fehlaromen besetzt. Totaler Murks.Test vom 20.3.2009, Gebinde: Glasflasche