Lhasa Beer 11P

Brewed by Lhasa Brewery (Carlsberg)
Style: Pale Lager
Lhasa, Tibet

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

12 oz. bottle via trade; apparently this is available in some places in the Bay Area, which is cool. The bottle is really cool, with a colorful Tibetan prayer flag design. Pours a clear light yellow-gold color with a half-inch thick white head and just a little lacing. Aroma of grains, grass, corn, pale malts, faint hops, and metallic notes. Not too bad for the style. Then the flavor comes along and doesn’t deliver the goods. Corny, grainy, grassy, metallic, funky, and mildly soapy. Shoot, I had higher hopes for a beer I really wanted to like. Light-bodied, with fairly low carbonation for the style. Goes down easy. I’m still giving this a lot of extra points in the Overall category. If you have access to this for cheap, go ahead and buy a bunch instead of something like Miller Lite because it goes down as easily and supposedly goes to a good cause; the bottle says 10% of proceeds are donated to Tibetan causes, though within the boundaries of China now, I find that hard to believe. Drink Beer, Free Tibet!

Pours macro yellow with a small white head. Aroma is more basic macro with some corn and some hops. Flavor is you guessed it, more macro. There are a few more hops in this than your standard basic American BMC lager, but it still tastes pretty similar. Pretty basic adjunct lager here. Thin, watery mouthfeel.

12 oz. bottle from Plaza Liquors - Hope I’m rating the right Lhasa. Pours a crystal clear light golden color with a large white head. Very little lacing. Aroma is light skunk and herbal hops. Flavor is lightly sweetened grain malt and light herbal hops. No unpleasant aftertastes. light to medium body. This beer was a pleasant surprise. A decent beer.

Yellow blonde with frothy head. Saaz, lager hop aroma , somewhat spicy, but cardboard character is there. Saaz hop flavor, cardboardy, surprisingly parching through the finish. I’d expect something better, or at least more quenching if I’d climbed all the way to the rooftop of the world. Certainly not worth the climb.

A piss yellow beer with a fizzy snow white head. Grain and a bit of hop in the aroma with a weak hint of cheese. Thin fizzy flavor, some hop and grain and a slightly metallic edge. Drikable and forgetable. Thanks yespr for new country!

Bottle another new country for me. Skunky aroma on the nose. Yellow body with white head. Good bittering and has that lemon zest zip to it. Good lawmower beer as most would say.

Bottle thanks to Bu11zeye. pours a crystal clear yellow with white fizzy head. Aroma is floral, pretty aromatic along with some light malt. Flavor of some light malt, some floral taste, nice slight bitter. Mouth feel is light body with high carbonation. Overall, I found this to be an easy drinking beer. Worth a shot!

Bottle thanks to bu11zeye. The look is clear, golden bright color, light white head. The smell is weak, grains, not much else. The taste is light, grains, malts, little hops.