Golden Eagle Lager

Clear golden, moderate head with some lacing and retention. Aroma is glue, sweet pale malts, minimal hops. Light bodied, quite sweet. Clearly inferior to 10000 Monks or whatever haha.

A friend brought this to dinner since we were having Indian/Sri Lankan food; it definitely was the center of a few conversations. After having a sample I decided it wasn’t worth dirtying a glass over. There is some chemical component to the aroma and taste that is overpowering, almost like formaldehyde or perhaps weak Arrack, accompanied by malty sweetness. Maybe there are good qualities in the crispness or carbonation, but it would be hard to say so given the generally awful taste. This beer was so bad that it was enjoyable in a perverse way. One of the worst beers I’ve had in a while. Take my appearance rating with a grain of salt because my only good look at it was while I was pouring it down the drain.

Bottle from World Market. Golden color upon pouring. Weird toasty aroma. Almost smells like a smoked. Very odd flavor at first. Like a smoked plastic beer. Actually it’s not really that bad.

Not sure how much different this is from my earlier rating for Tantra from this brewer. Tasting this one while looking at those notes makes me think it is the same beer. Terrible dirty flavour. Thin. Imagine that it is 40 degrees Celsius and you are dying of thirst and you can finish it, even starting to imagine that if this was all there was you might develop some appreciation for the sweet notes under the rough edge, might develop a familiarity for it’s unique formaldehyde flavour. But till then I will stick to the familiarity or the traditional hop and malt flavours of the Western World.