DB Export 33

Brewed by DB Breweries (Asia Pacific Breweries-Heineken)
Style: Pale Lager
Auckland, New Zealand

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

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33% less flavour. 33% less taste. I guess people drink this beer as it is wet and has alcohol. For the masses.

Pours clear with evident carbonation. No head, during or after the fact. Aromas are clean and... and... and... yeah. Nah. Full mouthfeel. Short, tingly and just a notion of malt of malt character and no hops. Thin. Actually, insipid. Just nothing there.

Bottled. A golden beer with a white head. The aroma has notes of metal, caramel, and malt. The flavor is sweet with notes of metal, caramel, malt, and honey, leading to a dry cardboardy finish.

330ml bottle. A thin veil of clean white foam sits atop an amber base. The foam vanishes to from a dishwater ring around the edge of the glass. Malt and hop aroma prepares you for the bland flavour that is to follow.

Bottle at Harry’s Pool Bar in Queenstown. When I ordered, the bartender said, "Eh, probably don’t want that one, mate. It’s no good." Unfortunately, this was one of two beers on his list that I hadn’t tried on my trip to New Zealand, so I went with it anyway. He was right. Green bottles are always a tip-off for me, as skunky Euro-style beers are not my thing. This was basically just one of those. Pours clear gold with a big white head. Skunky aroma and flavor, and also grainy, with metallic notes and an unappealing mix of sweet and sour. I was probably making a face from the nastiness of this one as I shot pool with a buddy, so I followed it up with something to totally erase the memory and got a Redwood Cellars Old Mout Cidre.

Bottle. Pours clear golden with a short-lived white head. Aroma of copper penny and corn syrup. Flavour is truly bad, unpleasant corn syrup combined with a chemical character that is hard to describe-- not quite plastic, not quite petroleum, but somewhere in between (burning plastic perhaps?). Metallic note in the finish. This isn’t just bland, it is truly BAD. Drainpour.

Forgot to add my rating for this, most likely because I was trying to shut the memory from my mind (and palate). All I am allowed to remember now is that it was ghastly - as much flavour as sucking on a piece of flint. Surely it is against the Fair Trading Act or Consumer Guarantees Act for this to be called or sold as "beer".

Bright orange in colour with fluffy white head. Sulphurous aroma. Sour taste, short dry finish. Looks good tatses bad.

The beer was horrible, poured a very pale yellow, was very sweet on the palate with a background flavour of cabbage

Tough one to rate, scores don’t seem to go low enough...pours a pale yellow with a soap scum looking head that disappears in an instant, it is in a branded glass so i’ve given it 2/5 for appearance. This was a freebie otherwise i wouldn’t have bothered with this, i only went into the pub to take a piss but ended up drinking someone else’s....to flavours...not many, thanks goodness it was served at what seemed to be -2 degrees because that probably covered a multitude of sins. What i could glean from it was it was sweet and sulphury and that’s about it, a real sorry excuse for a beer....i still wake up sweating with nightmares about my experience.