King Cobra

Brewed by Kielce Brewery (Kompania Piwowarska-SABMiller)
Style: European Strong Lager
Kielce, Poland

Pale golden beer with a big whitish head. Mineral, slight grass aroma. Some earthiness, fruitiness, sweet malt flavor, but little depth. Very carbonated. A bit of spice lingers. Spritzy.

Feb, 2007 Quite a pleasant and fragrant strong beer. Similar to Belgian blonde beers. Touch of spice. Touch of yeast. Filtered and force carbonated, which removes a good deal of character, but still an attractive beer with more flavour and character than the usual lager. Mmmmm. Even lager can be tasty and interesting if brewed with enough knowledge and care. Decent brew. (Treated with respect and drunk at room temperature.) [3.3]

Aug, 2008 Chris_o’s GBBF Shindig August 08. A mild tasting strong lager. Slight light fruit. Acceptable but dull. [2.7]

A hazy light orange beer with a thin white head. The aroma is sweet yeast combined with notes of fruit. The flavor is sweet malty with notes of yeast as well as a touch of wheat, the end is dry and yeasty combined with a delicate bitterness.

Huge, just off-white head, fluffy, fast disappearing over pale golden beer with a light hazy sheen. Pale malts, cookie malts and alcohol in the nose, spicy. Cheap alcohol flavour, sweet, scorched sugar, caramel-like. Little sourishness, fleeting. Rather well-carbonated, bit aggressive, burning MF. Kind of luxus version of a malt liquor. I hope Rodenbach gets payed well for having this lying around - beats me for what purpose.

Tasted 17/09/2008. 750ml bottle from Regionals. Fizzy! Lemon fruitiness on the nose and in the mouth. A little yeast fruit and bitterness in the finish. Slightly hot. It’s no Moa....

Nov. 24, 2007; bottle. First experience with a "European Strong Lager." Gold appearance; exceptionally-sweet, fresh-grassy aroma; lemony-citrus taste with strong hop profile and evident alcohol heft. Somewhat sour & acidic palate. Lagers of any stripe are the red-headed stepchildren of the ratebeer.com intelligentsia, but I’ll buck the system and say that this is worth a try if you like the style.

Pours a fairly pale straw with just a little rosy tint. Tons of active white head that settles down to just a few streaks. Fresh herbal soap aroma with a mineral/sulfur note that is subtle enough that it adds texture rather than detracts. Sweet grainy flavor--bagette drizzled with simple syrup. Subdued herbal hops are not quite up to the task of providing balance. Ends of being cloying, and I’m glad I have help finishing the bottle. Oddly, the alcohol hides better than the sweetness. As something that had Rodenbach’s name dropped in the label, I had higher hopes. (Okay. 10 minutes after I entered this rating, I came back and finished my glass, and this had actually gotten significantly more interesting and balanced as it warmed. A bit of vanilla rounds out the aroma. A tart note gives some relief to the sweetnes. Not bad.)

Bought this last week and didn’t know what to expect to be honest. Pours gold with a fluffy white head that dissipates fast (like champagne). That’s where the comparison to Champagne ends. Smells of grapes and citrus. Tastes overly sweet with some peppery splashes. Not all that exciting. Malheur and Deus are both better than this (albeit more expensive).