Mahou Cinco Estrellas

Brewed by Mahou Brewery (Grupo Mahou-San Miguel - Carlsberg)
Style: Pale Lager
Alovera, Spain

Serve in Dimpled mug, Lager glass, Shaker

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Bottle 250ml. @ home.
Clear light to medium yellow color with a small to average, frothy, good lacing, mostly lasting, white head. Aroma is moderate malty, grain, toasted, sour malt, vegetable, metalic. Flavor is moderate sweet and light bitter with a average duration. Body is light to medium, texture is watery to oily, carbonation is soft, finish feel is light metalic. [20100201]

Bottled. A golden beer with a lazing beige head. The aroma has notes of cardboard and malt. The flavor is sweet with notes of malt as well as lighter notes of cardboard, straw, and alcohol.

From tap. Pours golden yellow with a white head. Aroma is slight grainy, but mainly vague. Flavour is grainy, some hay and an astringent bitterness. A bit of cardboard in the finish. Bland.

UPDATED: JUN 23, 2005 (Bottle 25 cl) Deep golden colour with a pretty and thick head. Quite full, rather sweet with the typical Spanish hop-bite in the finish. An ok beer albeit mainstream. 010604

Bottled. Golden colour, small white head. Aroma is caramellish malts and hops with some grainy hints. Flavour is metallish, harsh hops and some slight caramellishness in finish. una estrella...

Golden colour. Slightly sweet, rather light bodied. Clean and boring.

Can. Clear yellow coloured with a white head. Sweet aroma of malts and corn. Flavour of malts, corn and cardboard.

Bottle. Pours a clear golden color with a longlasting white head. Has a fruity grainy corn aroma. Sweetish malty grainy corn flavor. Has a sweetish malty grainy finish.

Hazy blond color. Quite nice hop aroma, for a Spanish common lager. And even some malt and hop flavor. I’m impressed ;o)

Can. Medium head with medium duration. Color is pale golden. Aroma and taste are sweet malt, bread and hops.