Lady Bird Bio Beer

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

Serve in Lager glass, Tumbler

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UPDATED: JUN 11, 2007 Flat-looking?? Torrential bead that doesn’t stop. A spritziness worthy of a Belgian Levend. Sweet, soapy, washing-up liquid nose that takes some getting used to. Can’t help thinking this has always been made with aloe-vera, but the marketing men have just cottoned-on to its supposed health-giving properties, and novelty as a listed ingredient. Suddenly Kingfisher’s odd-but-not-unpleasant midnight curryhouse soapiness makes much more sense. Maybe I’m just being cynical. This is a sweet, soft-bodied, aromatic, strangely piney brew I could happily acqure a taste for. But it is, admittedly, an acquired taste.

Bottled. A greeny gold, quite flat looking beer. The aroma and taste of this are quite odd and it’s tough identifying exactly what’s in there. However I did find it suprisingly drinkable. There is a sweetness and a creaminess to the beer and what seems to be a fair amount of hoppiness in the nose. The taste has a definitely plant like feel of some sort to it. Seemed a bit similar to a hemp beer. I wonder why a breewry in India sees fit to brew using Aloe Vera? Why not cumin or limes?

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.

650ml bottle pours a pale straw color with a bubbly white head which does not last and leaves no lacing. Aroma is grainy with aloe and herbal hops. Taste is light malty sweetness with the aloe and a herbal hop bitterness. Light bodied with decent carbonation. Not as bad as I expected it to be, but still not a very good brew.

***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....

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

RBESG 2006 Grand Tasting. ABV is 5.0%. Batch #26. Pale lager aroma and flavour, slightly flowery. Nothing to write home about, the aloe vera did not make much of an impression on me.

Refreshing after so much rubbish porter. But to be honest this is just another rubbish lager with some sort of wierd juiceness to it.

I’ll oblige Presario and complete his rating: Maybe this was meant to be rubbed on a sunburn rather than consumed.

Bottle at RBESG 2006. Clear yellow coloured with a white head. Aroma of malts, fruits and spices. Flavour of malts, fruits and spices.