Haywards 5000

Brewed by Shaw Wallace (SABMiller)
Style: Strong Pale Lager/Imperial Pils
Mumbai, India

Serve in Lager glass

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I had a 650ml bottle at a restaurant w. company, so my comments are general and may be corrupted by Indian food, but I’d have to say that I’ve found a really fine Indian beer. Nicely aromatic, strong at 7% alcohol, a nice deep gold color w. sweet, fruity, full flavor. Great complement to the food.

One of India’s largest selling strong beer with 7%. This beer taste like malt liquor. Head is average. Very stron aromatic. Light carbonation to keep you from getting gassy and bloated. Definately goes well with tandoori and other sorts of spicy Indian food!!

26 mar 2012, bottle. Light yellow, clear, steady bubbles. Soft aroma: green apples and hay. Thin body and fizzy. Tastes like a sweet lager with some alcohol background. Not great but surprisingly light for an 8% beer. This certainly has its place in Indian cuisine. ---Rated via Beer Buddy for iPhone

Pours with a two-finger head that leaves a ton of lace. Very pale yellow color. Light carbonation. Nose is hay like in a barn. Starts and finishes sweet. Light bodied. So far my best beer from India but this is only the fourth. The label has this "manufactured" by Skol Breweries. $1.95 for a 330ml bottle.

Pours golden with a small white head. Aroma is sweet. Taste is sweet with a slight hop flavor. Refreshing and pretty decent for a lager. Went well with the Indian food.

Fairly sweet lager with a crisp flavor. Dark golden in color with simple head. Nice balance and refreshing.

Bottle. Pours with a small sized white head over a clear pale gold body. Very little aroma to speak of. Taste is malt dominant-bread, honey-with a slight herbal hoppy background and finish. Medium bodied and moderate carbonation. I had this at our local Indian restaurant and it goes a treat aginst the spicy warmth of Indian food.

a basically clear yellow color w/ a nice well laced head. hints of corn a weak hop and some dough in the aroma. Palate is pretty average. Flavor is a fairly malt taste but like a cheap immatation malt along w/ some grain and maybe some honey and yeast. This wasn’t half bad.. just wasn’t real good either.

Apu (his real name) sold me this one at the local quickie mart, and quite a salesman he is to this day. A nice strong lager that is fantastic with pizza. I agree with the other posts that this has a longer lasting body than most brews. Alcohol presence known but not eyeball turning. Try it if you can find it.

Slight aroma of breakfast cereal. Flavor is a very delicate corn, wheat, pale malt. Clean taste, on the sweet side, not so much on the pilsener side.