Flag Spéciale (Morocco)

Brewed by Société des Brasseries du Maroc (Heineken)
Style: Pale Lager
Casablanca, Morocco

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

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Golden coloured. Marginally malty, rather clean. Nothing special.

Golden body. Malty aroma, hint of vegetables. Taste is malty too, sweeter than expected, and a sticky sweet finish.

Canned, 0.33l. Pours clear golden color with small white head. Aroma of grainy malt, grassy hops and some skunky notes. Ordinary lager taste, a bit watery, but some hoppiness present at finish. Light bodied and thin texture. Nothing special, but still drinkable...

This beer poors clear with a large white head. Lacks any aroma and has a sharp taste on the tongue despite having little palate. Horrible beer!

Not bad especially when you really don’t expect anything. Good combination with local food.

Nothing fantastic, but by no means a bad beer, has good carbonation and taste.

Bottle and can in Morocco. Bottled beer produced in Fes, Marrakech and Casablanca, canned in Casablanca. Golden color, medium head. Aroma was malty. Flavor was malty, with some hoppy tones at the end. Drinkable, but not interesting.

Can in Marrakesh, Morocco (330ml):
A skunky smelling beer that gives off a faint hop aroma but mainly comprises of vegetable adjuncts & tonnes of grain which also seems rather skunky.
Pale straw yellow colour that just about manages to form a thin head on top of the beer which unsurprisingly goes pretty fast leaving a thin lacing which is bone white.
The bulk of the taste seeming to be a mix of vegetable adjuncts, grain and sweet metallic taste, possibly from the can. Again like the smell there is the faintest if faint hopped taste.
It’s quite light although at least it’s not watery. It is smooth & slightly refreshing.

A sorry excuse for a pale lager & on-par with some of the major American mass-produced garbage that makes it to the UK. Not a lot going on in any area if truth be told & to think that I paid £4 for a 330ml can of this stuff is laughable.

1001 Beers:

Another light pils-like lager. Golden in color with a bit of white head.

33 cl bottle @ Hotel room, Agadir. Rated on 21.12.2009
Aroma has some corn-like malt and butter. Flavour has corn-like, sweetish malt , but also hints of cardboard. Better than Flag Pils but still not enjoyable.

Pours a very pale light yellow. Aroma of wet cardboard. If drunk cold, flavour and palate is inoffensive at best. If warm ... don’t go near this.