Koff Indian

Brewed by Sinebrychoff (Carlsberg)
Style: Pale Lager
Kerava, Finland

(33 cl bottle, thanks oh6gdx!) Clear pale golden color, white head. Thin sweet grassy and vegetable scent. Grainy and malty stale taste. Spritzy yet thin mouthfeel. Low bitterness.

Can. Clear, straw coloured body under a soapy head. Hints of sweet corn can be detected in smell and taste. There is also a not-so-pleasant taste of boiled vegetables mixed with sweet citrus. Very thin palate. Maybe the Finnish answer to the American Budweiser? (Shared with Magne and CinnamonGirl, Sommarøya 17.08.2007).

(Can BB 12/06/08) Skunky aroma of corn and malt. Pale golden colour, clear and average size, white head with fair lacing. Acidic, corn, malty, cardboard and sweet flavour. Light-bodied, lively carbonated and metallic palate. Bad. 27/06/07

From a can, thanks oh6gdx. The body is medium gold with a thin white head. The aroma is cheap corn chips with some colby cheese and carrots. The taste is bland cornmeal with some nasty green bell pepper core in the finish. There is also a hint of burnt plastic. Uh, yeah, this is pretty bad.

courtesy of oh6gdx; canned - clear and bright golden-bronze colour under an elusive white foam; no aroma except for a touch of corn; sweet and almost medium-bodied, some tartness, no bitterness, short corny finish - bad

330ml bottle. Just another mass-produced pale lager. I can’t tell it’s corn beer, it tastes just like their normal III to me. Which isn’t good. Tiny amount of malt and bitterness, but not worth fighting to find.

50cl can from K-Citymarket, Vantaa. Straw colour with an off-white head; smells of corn syrup; rather flat, watery, lacking sweetness and bitterness; all that can be said for it is that it’s wet.

Can (BB 03/2008)
Ok, this is the latest idea from Sinebrychoff (owned by Carlsberg): "let’s take an old beer brand from the 1990’s and promote it as easy to drink festival beer". "Wild Indian" was the first corn beer in Finland 15 years ago (this one is propably with different recipe). Maize beer doesn’t sound very good marketing idea in Finland, where Bud has had quite bad reputation in the 2000’s. It pours golden with lots of CO2 and has small white head which fades away. Corn is evident in the nose as well some papery and skunky notes. Soft malty, a bit sweetish flavor. Propably corn softens this beer, although it is more on malty side. Light palate of course. Sweetish malty aftertaste. Clean and harmless summer drink. Cooler it is, the better it is. Slightly better and more drinkable than I expected, corn is not dominating in the flavor.