Haägen Premium Malt Lager Beer

Brewed by Independent Breweries (New Zealand)
Style: Pale Lager
Papakura, Auckland, New Zealand

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

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Does not smell bad. Kind of a citrus hint. Apricot color, but what fizz erupted went away. No head really. Kind of a wet paper taste. It’s pretty thin, but there is a hop finish that is worthy of the term. All very light, but better than most pale tasteless lagers. Beats Bud hands down.

UPDATED: APR 23, 2012 Very ordinary pale lager. Strong malty flavour, lightly sour, very forgettable...

330ml bottle as Bushman’s Premium Quality Lager, which claimed to be Australian. Classic lager taste. Seemed very similar to better quality Canadian lagers.

bottled as Bushman’s Premium Lager, poured light amber in glass with white head that quickly dissipated, a little bit too malty with not enough hop, decent body for a lager.

330ml bottle. Clear with a thick soft white foam head, well carbonated and amber in colour. Aromas of straw and wet cardboard. Dry finish and unpleasant flavour and very ordinary.

An okay little beer (well, little bottle). Pour, look, aroma were about average. Taste was a little better. Better than the Canadian-brewed Fosters, for example.

Pale gold, froths up some white head that quickly dissapates and lots of bubbles. Smell is skunky with sweet malts, grass and some hops. Taste is on the watery side - slightly sweet, some flavour of malts and hops. Comes across thin with minor bitterness. Booooring. These beers are sooo boooring....but drinkable. Very forgetable. Claims that it is made in Melbourne, Australia.

not bad, cheap aussie imitation german beer.Malt overpowers most everything else.Sweet taste,alot better than most aussie lagers,good 4 a cheap beer.

Bottle -- Nondescript golden colour with quickly diminishing head that leaves a fair bit of lacing. Better than average aroma for a lager with the more prominant malt adding interest. Soapy mouthfeel. Flavour is malty with some twangy bitterness at the end. Pretty unexceptional. One bottle is enough. Best drunk with food as the malt gets cloying by itself.

330ml green bottle. Bottled as Bushman’s. Pours golden with a soapy fast vanishing white head. Aroma attempts grassy hops but comes off as skunky and unpleasant. I’d say it was off, but the place where i buy my beer keeps everything in a refrigerated walk in coller with no windows. Flavour is grainy and sweet with a fair amount of grass/skunk hop flavour. Grainy finish. A lot of carbonation, light body. Bad beer with an inflated "imported" price tag.

Goes down easy,has a nice flavour of MALT,smells MALTY,the bitterness is MALTYsaturated besides that it has a real good tastebut I wouldn,t buy it again it,s a bit malty and one way.