Lal Toofan

Brewed by Shaw Wallace (SABMiller)
Style: Pale Lager
Mumbai, India

Serve in Dimpled mug, English pint, Lager glass, Shaker

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Interestingly it translates to ’Little Wind’, just what you need with a curry and a beer. Clean & crisp colour & flavour, easy to drink without any heady after tones.

Swell down the curry beer. A very flat plain looking and tasting beer.

330ml bottle pours a pale golden color with a small white head that leaves very little lacing on the glass. Aromas of grainy malts and mild hops. Taste is malty sweet with not quite enough hop bitterness for a proper balance of flavors. Only slightly better than a typical macro.

standard curry beer, ’nuff said!

Draught at Mr. Singh’s, Glasgow. Decent and fairly clean golden coloured lager. Some fruity notes. Light to medium bodied.

Bottle, 5.2%. ’Brewed with basmati rice’. At least they’re honest. Almond and paper aroma. Dark gold pour climbing with bathfoamy suds. Stale papery grain, pencilly conifer, obvious sweet ricey afters. No glaring off-notes, and no worse a beer than Budweiser, Corona or a cheap tinned Czech pils. Mo has verified that the name means, ’red storm’.

UPDATED: MAR 1, 2012 Bottle from Oddbins in London. Deep golden colour with a white head. Moderate malty and hoppy aroma. Too sweet malt flavour.

Large bottle from some bargain store. Grainy aroma, pale urine yellow stale cardboardy taste, I guess it’s only a bargain if it’s drinkable which this was, just. I won’t go out of my way to repeat the experience though.

Draught at Mr Singh’s with Jacob, with a curry of course. Aroma has some grainy malts but mainly sweetish and herbal. Taste is similar, grassy notes kickin in, not bad with a curry.

Botella. Clear deep golden with a short lasting white head leaving a pretty fair lacing. Weak malty and grainy bit sweet aroma. Soft mouthfeel. The flavour is soft with a mild sweet matiness and little ripe fruits. A pale lager with more flavour than I suspected.