Lady Bird Bio Beer

Brewed by Khoday
Style: Spice/Herb/Vegetable
7th Mile,
Kanakapura Road, Bangalore, India

Serve in Lager glass, Tumbler

Deep golden body with zero head nothing but big bubbles floating to the top of this brew. I am dreading the first sip of this stuff, how can a beer that claims to be biologically engineered to be healthy and is flavored with aloe, and is brewed in India possibly taste good. A pretty strong smelling beer but not over powering, apple’s, malts, slightly musty, it smells just like every other cheap import lager from the third world. The brew taste watered down, and mostly made up of cheap tasting malts AKA rice, with a moldy stale finish, there’s also some apple hiding in this brew, and it all comes together to leave a bread like after taste. I don’t know what aloe taste like but I can’t taste anything that even might be aloe. This beer is getting crappier by the sip, I’m trying to force the last half of the bottle down my throat, and if it wasn’t for the fact that I’m trying to get good and primed for the Dayglo gig tonight I would have given this beer the dump down the sink. But wait I feel very healthy and energetic now, is it the beer, maybe it is Brad, maybe it is.

***review from June 2006***
This beer doesn’t horribly suck! Here’s why is should suck...immensely: 1) Made in India. 2) It’s called Bio Beer. 3) Has wonderful 1970’s font on cap. 4) It’s in a 650ml bottle. 5) Aloe Vera is apperently the secret to its goodness. 6) It says "First time in the World" on the label. 7) The trademark is owned by Advaith Biotech???? 8) It’s made in India. 9) ...India. Now you must remember that this is still an Indian beer. Some of this is not a quality of Indian beers (you decide): Titanic bubbles which creates a big rocky white head....which suffers the same fate as the Titanic. Crystal clear and yellow. The smell is closing in on ...acceptable! (collective gasp!) There’s a lemon merengue-ish odor, the usual cheap grains and some mystery smell....smells of pee later on remind me why you should never go down the swirly slides at your local park. Zero skunk but lagerish. Note - at this point I’ve used a device that will vacuum and seal your bottle to retain freshness (see: Quality wines). I don’t want this to get remotely warm. Taste is not bad at all - considering. What is it? Why do I not want to pour this into the sink or let it get warm? Why is my stomach not preparing for liftoff? IT REMEMBERS PREVIOUS INDIAN BEERS AND ASSUMES IT’S AGONIZING FATE. But it doesn’t come! Taste is a bit yeasty, definetly grainy and somewhat sweeter when warming. Soft too. Sour notes show up. Mouth hasn’t went into seizures yet. Soft mouthfeel which is smooth with a light bitterness that leaves a drying affect. Medium bodied. Pretty damn suprising overall. I’m impressed - mainly because I assumed that I would be getting the stomach pump out of the closet. I drank the full 650ml and didn’t require the stomach pump. And somehow, I’m healthier too (search for "Bio Beer" and read the news clips)! If I convert to drinking litres upon litres of Bio Beer I will become super-human...maybe even Uber-human. And my skin feels sooooo soft. Wrong. But biologically correct....

UPDATED: APR 26, 2008 Bottled. Golden coloured. Clear. Fluffy off white head. Grainy sweet and very distinct aroma of ryebread. To much for my likings. Flavour is very malty and again full of rye bread. Is grainy and has corn notes. Thin bodied. Sweetish and bready end. Not very pleasant tropical lager, but sitting on the porch in a nice hotel in Tranquebar looking at Dansborg and the sea, it didn’t ruin a very nice evening.

Bottled. An orange beer with no head. The aroma is sweet and with primary notes of straw, while the flavor is sweet malty and again with strong notes of straw. Boring.

rbesg06gt, bottled. pretty nothing, stale aroma, very pale, hint of corn, no other real flavour

650ml brown bottle. Pale yellow in colour, tiny white head fades way too fast. Slight grainy malt aroma with some grass and hay. Dry malt flavour, slight grains, light grassy hops in the finish. Fairly carbonated.

Mild, sweet, creamed corn and lightly grainy aroma. Clear golden body topped by a low white head. Vaguely sweet with light offsetting bitterness. DMS lingers in the aftertaste. Light watery body with strong pointy carbonation. Bottle sampled with BeerPrince, CapFlu, frink and Oakes.

Bottle at RBESG 2006. Like all bio-beers, pretty garbagey. Could call it floral if i was feeling generous. Boring otherwise.