Efes Pilsen (Pilsener)

Brewed by Anadolu Efes
Style: Pale Lager
Istanbul, Turkey

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

send corrections   |   shelftag   |   edit barcodes   |   add pic

caramel, floral, earthy, rotten eggs, pale, hazy, frothy, white foam, medium sweetness, lightly bitter, medium body, thin feel, bitter,

Slightly dry with a slight malt taste on the palate, overall a pretty average international lager

Bottle. Pours clear yellow with a fizzy white head. Aromas of apple, straw, and sugar. Flavors of sweet malt, chalk, and cane sugar. Bah. [960]

Decent aroma of malt, grass, and hops. Flavor is pretty weak and watery, with a little hop bitterness. There’s something unpleasant I can’t place in the aftertaste. Bought this because I wanted to try something different, but this brings me back to the boring, mass-produced American beers of my youth (and that’s not a compliment).

Good and easy on the throat, definitely a good choice under the burning heat of Turkey.

330ml bottle pours straw in color with a finger of white head that settles to virtually no lacing on the glass. Aroma is hay and faint hops. Taste is light malty sweetness and mild hop bitterness and a bit of skunk. Slightly below average for the style.

Clear yellow color with a small white head. Hay aroma. Thin sweet and slightly bitter taste.

Bottle. Clear yellow colour. Aroma hoppy, minor notes of banana. Nothing special going on with this beer. if you want definition of euro-beer, which blends in with hundreds of other mass-producted lagers worldwide, this could very well be it. Taste medium bitter, that is all. On the beach in Turkey? Yes. Anywhere else? No, thank you.

Typical commercial pale lager that any country has, golden, medium white head, lot of carbonation, no aroma, etc. way better the draft one.

Golden coloured beer with a collar of white head that sat, thought about buggering off and then dissipated. Aromas are of light malts but not a lot of anything else. Cold, fresh and good carbonation, but not especially memorable.