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Fosters (UK)

Score
18
OVERALLStyle
Brewed by Royal (Heineken UK)
Style: Pale Lager
Manchester, England

bottled
available

on tap
available

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RATINGS: 189   WEIGHTED AVG: 1.64   EST. CALORIES: 120   ABV: 4%
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COMMERCIAL DESCRIPTION
Brewed under licence by ScotCo in the UK at Royal brewery, Manchester and Berkshire brewery, Reading. Launched in the UK in 1981.
Filtered and pasteurised and available artificially carbonated in kegs, bottles and cans.
The original Australian version is available as Export at around 5% abv.


most recent ratings

2.1
   AROMA 4/10   APPEARANCE 3/5   TASTE 4/10   PALATE 2/5   OVERALL 8/20
Creedence (127) - Cork, IRELAND - MAY 17, 2013
Draught pint. Pours a clear gold, with a lasting foamy white head. Aroma of grass, cereal and sulfur. Taste is med sweetness, surprised to get a light bitter hoppiness. Fizzy mouthfeel, slightly dry finish. Watery aftertaste. Thought it would rate worse, to be honest, but for a macro, it’s fairly palatable.

1.6
   AROMA 2/10   APPEARANCE 3/5   TASTE 3/10   PALATE 2/5   OVERALL 6/20
Rob_D_UK (176) - - MAY 15, 2013
Pours a golden yellow colour very watery smell, and appearance. You can find some hops., but the beer is too watery.

1.1
   AROMA 2/10   APPEARANCE 1/5   TASTE 2/10   PALATE 2/5   OVERALL 4/20
Kingi (277) - - MAY 15, 2013
i dont know , feels like a waste of time to comment on this, sweetish taste and some other mild tastes and aromas , goes down easily and easily forgettable.

2.5
   AROMA 4/10   APPEARANCE 3/5   TASTE 5/10   PALATE 4/5   OVERALL 9/20
Graham77 (86) - Glasgow, SCOTLAND - APR 20, 2013
One of the better mass produced 4% lagers. Not much more I can say. Aroma is typical cereal, taste the same.

1
   AROMA 1/10   APPEARANCE 2/5   TASTE 1/10   PALATE 1/5   OVERALL 5/20
JamesChamp (108) - Oakville, Ontario, CANADA - APR 11, 2013
UPDATED: APR 15, 2013 Use to drink all the time when I first came to live in the UK and I did not have much money or really know anything about Ales and the craft beer market. I can’t believe I drank it for that long. After I got so sick of it I started drinking Ales and then got into trying more craft beers world wide. I guess Fosters did something good for me, got me off of drinking only bland tasteless, heartless lagers.

0.9
   AROMA 1/10   APPEARANCE 4/5   TASTE 1/10   PALATE 1/5   OVERALL 2/20
Pizd (60) - Merseyside, ENGLAND - APR 9, 2013
(Can): Pours a clear, over carbonated weak gold colour. Terrible, terrible smell. Even worse taste. Forgot how bad this lager was. Skunk at its finest.

2.3
   AROMA 3/10   APPEARANCE 4/5   TASTE 4/10   PALATE 3/5   OVERALL 9/20
Osprey87 (518) - London via, WALES - MAR 18, 2013
Have had lots of times on tapand can. Drinkable, inoffensive lager. Can’t say much else to differentiate it from the other mass produced lagers.

0.6
   AROMA 1/10   APPEARANCE 2/5   TASTE 1/10   PALATE 1/5   OVERALL 1/20
Xorue (9) - ENGLAND - MAR 4, 2013 does not count
A beer to be completely avoided if possible. Which sadly here in the UK isnt. Its in every bar and pub. The aroma is one of watered down-ness, like smelling an open can a day after. Taste is one to behold aswell, it has a thickness to it, often with a large head, that makes it very unenjoyable at the best of times.

2
   AROMA 4/10   APPEARANCE 4/5   TASTE 4/10   PALATE 5/5   OVERALL 3/20
ralphdot (881) - Billingham, Durham, ENGLAND - MAR 1, 2013
4.0% cold colour (not amber) with a poor head, regular lager taste. My friend was drinking it, he has lost is sense of taste and would not waste money on good beer.

1.5
   AROMA 2/10   APPEARANCE 3/5   TASTE 2/10   PALATE 3/5   OVERALL 5/20
foxo82 (478) - Tamworth (via Leicester), Staffordshire, ENGLAND - FEB 23, 2013
UPDATED: FEB 24, 2013 On tap at Haughton Hall Hotel, Shifnal. Yellow non-beer. Tastes like water. Smells of nothing at all. I have to admint there’s nothing unpleasant about it - it actually looks and feels ok - fresh and crisp; but there’s still nothing there in the taste/nose. Forever associated with drunken half-memories of uni nights, sticky dancefloors, plastic cups and Don’t Look Back In Anger. Which may or may not be a good thing. Excellent for putting out small fires.


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