Martens 5 Flags Strong Lager

Brewed by Martens
Style: Pale Lager
Bocholt, Belgium

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

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Bottle from Sainsburys. Golden colour with a slight white head and moderate carbonation. Sweet malt aroma with a touch of hay. Flavour was also sweet with a decent dry finish. Not bad for a lager.

Gold with a lasting white head. Faint malt aroma. Sweet roasted malt taste with some bitterness. Better than some of its kind, but not very wonderful.

Bottle. A fairly typical Belgian lager in the style of Stella Artois or Jupiler. Less hopping than I expected and it feels a little flat. Nothing wrong with it.

Not a strong lager but slightly better than I had expected. A bit tinny which was worrying as it was from a bottle. Some bitterness and not really that offensive-just not one to try again.

Bottled. A yellow gold coloured lager with a white head. The aroma is pretty nasty grassiness and notes of cabbage water and can be smelt from quite a distance. The taste is fairly bitter but there’s a bit of a sweet metal. Not the type of beer I think of when I think of Belgium.

A watery, immensely boring lager with nothing to distinguish it in any way.

Sniffs of grass and beeswax. Yellowish pale gold with a thinning white head. Cheap malt graininess and metal. Astringently bitter finish. Drinking rainwater from a rusty tuna tin.

500ml bottle from Sainsburys. Pale straw in colour, vaguely grassy aroma; a fluffy white head; a sweet flavour with a metallic edge; doen’t deserve the "premium" tag.

Bottle, Sainsburys Kidlington. Gold in colour, large white fluffy head, sweet, some hops and malt but ultimately very forgettable.

Bottle (from Sainsburys, BB Oct 07), labelled just as 5 Flags. Sweet and grainy. A few hints of grassy hops. Not particularly thirst quenching and you wouldnt want to drink this for the flavour.