Crikak

Brewed by Privat-Brauerei Schmucker
Style: Pale Lager
Mossautal, Germany

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

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The aroma has a familiar cheap euro lager smell with latex hops, sweet grainy malt, and a touch of skunk throw in. The appearance is pale gold with a small head. The flavor is like the aroma but not as bad actually. The palate is thin but saved by all the carbonation. Overall its pretty bad but it is a tad bit refreshing.

The best thing a bout this beer is the smell- strong light malty lagery smell. Flavor is nothing, It’s really hard to taste anything here, maybe some corn in the back and a little malt, but that is probably just a mixture of the smell and the slightly darker than yellow color. Palate is thinner than water, like distilled water. Bottle at Lucky Liquors, Miami.

Bottle from total wine. Not good. Pale yellow. Very full of corn and cereal aromas. Flavor is watery, corn, malt and to my surprise no bitterness at all.

Bottle I think from daknole. Pours gold with a white head. Smells like skunk and piss. Tastes appley and sweet with a sickly sweet finish. One of the crappiest beers I have tasted to date.

Crikak pours a pale yellow with a white head from a green twelve ounce bottle. It smells a bit skunky. The flavor is mildly skunky, maybe a bit of malt too. Not very good.

It was pretty bizarre seeing a palm tree on a "Traditional German Style" beer, but I gave it a try anyway. Pale yellow. Not very good.

Pale yellow with cream foam head, poured from bottle with label about 10% different from Cristal. Smells like cornsilk, wet husks, and band aids. Is thin and watery vat of corn gelling into a phenolic mess. Thankfully it finishes dry.

What can you expect from a brewery which claims to be a "premium traditional german style" but has a palm tree on the label. pretty forgettable.

Label is a direct ripoff of Cristal, the Cuban lager from InBev. Golden, clear. Vegetal, skunky aroma is a sulphuric attack. The taste is actually clean, very watery with a hay-like hop note that carries only a hint of sulphur.