1.6 AROMA 3/10 APPEARANCE 2/5 TASTE 3/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 6/20
Pretty much swill. France does alot of things right regarding food and drink. This is not one of them. A crime considering the superb brews made just over the border in Germany and Belgium. This is like bad French Heineken.
3.3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
On tap at the Dog & Duck Pub. Pours clear light golden in color with a light head. Smell is light malt, and a touch of yeast. Taste is crisp, lightly hoppy and slightly citrusy, perhaps. A touch on the slightly sweet side, but still crisp and refreshing with a very subtle fruity edge to it. Not bad at all on a hot day.
2.4 AROMA 4/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 10/20
(Tap) Pours a golden color with a fair amount of head. Sweet aroma. Taste is of light crisp hops and some grain. Somewhat astringent towards the end. Average carbonation and slightly below average mouthfeel. Just another Euro lager...
2.2 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 3/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 8/20
Gold with a thin head. Aroma is corn, malt, rice, bit doughy, and is a bit yeasty. Taste is slightly malty, very light hop content (but atleast you can notice it) with a note of honey.
2.1 AROMA 4/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 4/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 7/20
Decent looking pour...very typical pale macro-kinda lager. Strong corn adjunct flavor,with some mild pale malt and a medium herbal hop bite. Very reminiscent of American macros that are so much easier to get and every bit as disappointing to drink.
2.8 AROMA 4/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
Pale Lager month installment number 8: Vive La Pale Lager! Wouldn’t you just believe that, the first skunky pale lager this month comes to us from a green bottle.... A cool bottle admittedly, but green nonetheless. The beer pours a fairly pale golden color with a big fluffy, semi loose, white head that leaves a good lace on the glass. The aroma is skunky at first, this fades and leaves us with mild hay and honey notes, really not a bad smelling beer but for the skunk. The flavor is displays some sweet malt and sweet corn, the one thing I’ve always liked about 1664 (yes I’ve had it before) is that it has this nice delicate hop character that is subtle up front than leaves an herbal, almost floral and earthy bitterness in the finish. It really makes you forget the sweet messiness that you get when you first sip it. I’ve not had the beer in years and I had figured that that character was a figment of my imagination, much to my surprise the hoppiness is more pronounced than I had ever remembered. The palate is thin and fizzy but there is sort of a long finish that I like about it. It’s a nice enough pale lager.
Might be worth it to try it on tap?
2.8 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 11/20
Bottle. Pours a clear golden with a decent looking white head that dissipates quickly and leaves a little lace. Aroma is faint, but there are signs of hops and a sweet malt. Grassy and spicy. Taste is similar. More spicy hops than most lagers. Very refreshing despite its simplicity. Overall, a beer that brings back a lot of memories and tastes better than most shitty lagers here in America.
1.2 AROMA 2/10 APPEARANCE 2/5 TASTE 2/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 4/20
How can a place like France, so close to the Belgium border, create such a concoction so horrible that thirsty nomads in the Saharan desert wouldn’t drink? I mean really. Someone in France make a beer that doesn’t taste like crap. Please. Aroma of grainy mildewy, rotten skunk. A lifeless, golden hue with no bubbles and little head. A watery grave of a mouthfeel, so thin that it’s water like. An unpalatable, malty sweet skunk that is just simply not pleasing at all. This would have been a drainpour had I not paid for this.
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