Cisk Export Premium Lager

Brewed by Simonds Farsons Cisk
Style: Pale Lager
Mriehel, Malta

Serve in Dimpled mug, Lager glass, Shaker

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Had this on bottle and on cans @ Malta. Pours sparkling yellow, pale golden, with a thick white head. Crispy, bit grassy but clean aroma’s. Good refreshing lager. It’s a bit sweeter than the regular one. But it’s a minor difference.

Originally rated September 2008. This Mediterranean brew is made for the warm climate this country has. It pours a light yellow colour with a big foamy white head, that actually stays a while and leaves lacing all over (in weird shapes of all kind). The aromas are a little malty with a slight twist of citrus. Decent carbonation composed of many small bubbles that keeps on going strong. The taste is pretty light, with some grain flavour and a metallic finish. Not much aftertaste, maybe a bit of bitterness. Refreshing for that tempature (like mentioned) and nice to try a beer from Malta, but that is about it.

On tap at Malta Festival outside European Parliament (Brussels). Orange body with short, fuzzy head. Quite a malty nose and toasty. Taste is quite sweet of sweetbread. Some bitterness. Not bad at all.

Bottle from Beers of Europe. Hoppy aroma. Cloudy golden yellow colour. Bland dry hoppy flavour. A very average lager.

Bottle. A - Typical clear, golden straw color with a lot of bubbles and a large foamy, sticky white head. Pretty good retention that eventually settles into a thin sticky layer of lace. S - Good Pilsener malt and a bit of bready aroma. A fair amount of herbal and floral hops as well. Sweet malt aroma is most dominant though; however, it doesn’t really have the vegetable, corny, adjunct smell I was somewhat expecting. T - Starts with a touch of grainy taste. Quickly some floral and herbal hops come out. A touch of grassy hops and mineral taste comes out mid sip with the sweet malt taste in the background. Finishes with a bit of a bready taste and some grassy hops. Clean taste, but a little thin and light on flavor, especially at the beginning of the sip, as it finishes a bit stronger. M - Light to medium body (a bit more heft than I was expecting) with a healthy amount of carbonation. Pretty crisp and just a bit of a drying finish. D - Pretty drinkable beer. A fair amount of hops on a nice Pilsener malt base. Very refreshing and goes down easy. I would drink another if it was given to me, but it doesn’t necessarily make me want another one. Notes: Best before July 2010. I wasn’t really sure what to expect from a lager from Malta, but I wasn’t expecting much. This was better than was I thought it may be though. Solid lager taste without a vegetable/corny/adjunct taste. The taste was a bit light and thin for me though. That said, it is an easy to drink and decent tasting beer with a fair amount of hops for the style. I don’t think I would search for it, or probably even get it again (unless it was on sale), but I would drink it again if I was offered.

Draught in Aviano, Italy. Bright yellow. Crisp peppery taste. Typical lager. Not bad, but not very interesting.

A Mes rate: bottle at the ever brilliant Chris O’s Pre GBBF Extravaganza.
Pale gold, thin white head. Faint watery malt, lots of diacetyl and vegetables. Bloody awful.

Bottle 330ml. @ Chriso’s pre GBBF Shindig ’09.
Clear light to medium yellow orange color with a small, fizzy, virtually none lacing, fully diminishing, white head. Aroma is moderate malty, toasted, caramel, oxidide malt. Flavor is moderate sweet and light bitter with a average duration. Body is light to medium, texture is watery, carbonation is soft. [20090801]

At Chriso’s pre GBBF tasting 09. Gold, white head. Horrible lager. Disgusting. Poor butter and mould.

Golden with a small white head. Aroma of caramel and malt. Sweet and malty flavour.