Golden Eagle

Formerly brewed at Carlsberg Sverige
Style: Golden Ale/Blond Ale
Falkenberg, Sweden

Serve in English pint, Shaker

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Canned. This is a real mess. First - this beer comes with a name that is bound to be used by 60 or so breweries. Secondly - the name of the brewer is withheld by purpose, as after Carlsberg took over Sweden’s two largest breweries it was ruled by the EU that they had a big share of the Swedish beer market and thus in a monopoly situation. What they did was they continued to brew all their brands but some were sold by a different company, namely the fake brewery ’Three Towns Independent Brewers’. This is one of those... Anyway. The beer itself is far from a poor effort. It pours pale golden with very little head, and has a fairly nice flowery aroma. It is clean and medium bodied with quite a bitter finish.

Greenish yellow. No head. Sourish aroma with notes of olives and flowers. Malty flavor with notes of wheat and spices. Sourish.

UPDATED: JUN 29, 2005 (Can 50 cl) Expecting a typical Swedish lager, this one confused me as it didn’t really behave like one. Straw golden colour. Scent like a Belgian "Triple" and taste like a "Triple" - only lighter. Pleasant surprise. Thanks to omhper for the information. The can doesn’t really tell much. If this is still on the market look it up - a rare Swedish ale. 280703

Canned. From the beginning it wasn’t very funny: boring name, stupid design of the can with sulky white-headed eagle... But it turned to be a wheat ale in Belgian tradition! Quite evident taste of wheat malt, light tartness, straw colour and thin head. A real surprise from Pripps.

Pale golden with a medium-sized head. Yeasty and metallic aroma. Thin flavour. Yeasty, metallic with notes of pear. Ok, Pripps brews an ale but this stuff is just bland and boring. (surprise!)

Very blond beer with a small head. hoppy and slightly fruity aroma. Not a great beer but interestingly odd. There is a bit of liquorice or sal ammoniac taste to it. Light bitter finish.

Not much of a head. Nice, flowery aroma and a finish that is somewhat bitter. Reminds of Belgian Blond, with less body though. The namne is confusing, and there´s no info about the content.

A daring experiment (to be Swedish), but a big disappointment, I thought it was an English or Scottish style of ale, but it was Belgian. Yuck!

Golden coloured with very little head. Somewhat yeasty aroma. Thin, watery, tinny. Bitter finish.