Harar

Brewed by Harar Beer Factory
Style: Pale Lager
Harar, Ethiopia

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

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Ok, what to say about this swill? Nothing really all that bad about it, but it is defiantly a bottle of swill. Pours a slightly cloudy golden yellow, with no head, zero head, no white stuff on top at all, your mother probably gives better head, but I have seen worse looking beers. A very stale apple juice is what I notice most for a smell combined with iron fillings and mold, not really a bad smell but it sure doesn’t make me want to drink this beer. The beer is a bit to watery feeling for me. Metallic apple juice is the main thing I taste, it taste like its made from mostly corn and no hopes but I don’t think you can get to many quality ingredients in Ethiopia, its also very watered down. The after taste is like donuts, sweet but still bread like. A very low quality beer but its still drinkable if you must."

Pours a small dying white head. Aroma of grain. Industrial taste of malt, with a hint of corn and metal. Easy drinkable

To be pale lager this is surprisingly hazy, I wonder if the bottle is valid... yup, date tells it should be fine. Head is short as lagers tend to have. Smell has some sweetness and made me thinking bananas. Taste is mild. Aroma is strange, there’s some metallic thing going on while at the same time this is weird way sweet. My hunch is during the make process handful hops where in brewery, and they where used very sparingly. I am not sure if this is good or bad beer, but at least not the most usual supermarket lager which is always a reason for few extra points.

330ml bottle pours a pale golden color with a small white head that leaves only a few specks of lace. Aroma is cereal grains and hops. Taste is light malty sweetness with a clean hoppy bitterness. This one surprised me a little. Quite a decent lager.

Bottle. Poured clear pale golden with a medium-sized white head. Aroma and flavor are grainy, fairly malty, some wheat, some honey, some grassy hops. Slightly thick mouthfeel. Not all that bad.

12 oz bottle. Pours a clear, thin, golden color. Aroma is very light, some citrus. Flavor is thin, with some malt backside. Overall not a great beer.

11.2 oz bottle. Pours a pale yellow with a large white head with large bubbles. It has a metallic aroma and the aroma of hay with some grass and cereal. The taste is floral, metallic and maybe slightly herbal with a nice hop aftertaste, it has a nice creamy mouthfeel. I enjoyed this beer it may not be the best but it’s good enough.

9/26/11 at lalibella. hazy sunshine-y yellow with a one finger white head. a is odd... pils-ish graininess, lots of weird florals, rice bag dust, peachy fruitiness f mild sweetness midpalate but it finishes clean. fruity, grainy, thin. clean. odd.5/3/5/3/10

11.2 oz bottle. Has a label that looks like it was pasted on with a kindergartner’s gluestick. Pours a slightly hazy pale yellow with a small white soapy head that falls into a ring and thin film of foam in about two seconds. Aroma is vomity, grainy. Taste is sweetish but it has a welcome bitter hop edge. Tastes a little corny and metallic. Highly carbonated. Not good, but there’s a lot worse out there.

Bottle at Merkato in Los Angeles. Pours a dull yellow. Nice flavor. A little sweet, but decent hop bite. Mouthfeel is substantial for a lager. Went along nicely with the spicy food.

Bottle. Honey and grain aroma and taste to match. Metallic and slightly bitter, grassy flavor is coupled with a hint of dust.