Marmara Gold

Brewed by Anadolu Efes
Style: Pale Lager
Istanbul, Turkey

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

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Bottled. Pale golden, average head. Sweet and caramelly with sour cardboard. Light bodied with muchy mouthfeel. No bitterness. Hopeless.

July 2010: One Litre green bottle (twist top): ABV of 4.1%, a true supermarket lager if ever I’ve come across one. Obtained from a small store on the main street in Ovacik, Turkey. carried back to my hotel room, chilled and then poured (twice) into a pint handled glass. Looked like a lager, the normal bright, clear, golden body with a fast reducing white head. Very little smell, some citrus fruits maybe. The taste was dry and semi-sour, the citrus hints from the aroma coming into their own within the flavours. Thin in body and strength of depth. Refreshing, but not a drinking mans beer.

Skyview Tasting, Nov. 11, 2011. Shared by me, after carrying it around Turkey and France for three weeks. Therefore, I have to like it. Corn aroma and corn flavor. Light gold, medium carbonation. It is perfectly drinkable, even if it has little to offer.

Skyview V, 11/11/11. "Courtesy" of JK. Yellow color with no head. Corn and salty aroma. Grainy flavor. Light cardboard. About the most inoffensive beer possible.

Date: November 11, 2011 Mode: Bottle Source: MN Gathering @ Skyview V Translucent yellow, not much to the aroma or taste except grain, another country crossed off the list.

Can at MN Gathering @ Skyview V. Clear yellow pour with a small soapy head. Aroma and taste is very mild corn. Not much else.

thanks to jk for the turkish bath swett. Pale yellow color. Oooh, smells like corn. A little skunk too. Sweet corn and minimal finish.

Bottle 1L at Karanfi Hotel, Güzelcamli. Clear yellow - white head. Hay. Light grainy. Light bitterness. Bread. Light cardboard. Light hoppy. Ok fresh. Thin

Crystal clear golden body with a very thin white head. Aroma of light malt, sugars, metal and a touch of light fruit. Light-bodied; Watery flavour with some mild grapes and pear tastes, a little malt and a touch of sugar - not much going on at all, but definitely not offensive at all. Aftertaste is clean and mild with only some light sugars and a touch of fruit - not much else at all. Overall, a very mild beer with not much flavour at all and surely no complexity. I sampled this 50 cL can purchased from a small market in Istanbul on 16-August-2011 for TL2,90 sampled later in the day from my hotel room in Istanbul, Turkey.

Yellow and clear. Has a white head, mostly diminishing. Aroma is moderate hoppy, spicy. Flavor is mainly bitter, only a faint sweet start. Dry texture and lively carbonation.

Thanks to Frau Eva for bringing a 500ml can back from Izmir. Light straw coloured body, skinny strip of white foam. Sweet aroma of some kind of berries. Pale malts and bland berries in flavour. Dry ending. Sour-sweet textured. Next to insipid (Tromsø, 18.06.2011).