Obolon Magnat

In the 0.5L bottle from Hy Vee CB. Pours a standard gold with perhaps a very subtle chill haze. Not crystal clear. Huge white head that holds its retention very very well. Aroma is Pepe LePew, i.e. skunk city. It’s too bad that this was so skunked because the flavor was really quite good if you subtract the photosensitivity. Rich (my bottle states that it is an ale, and if I had not read from the brain trust on this site that this was a lager, I’d have agreed with the manufacturer that they actually made an ale because this seemed closer to a cream ale than a pale lager or at least a golden ale, but the Gods of Ratebeer are never wrong so this must be a pale lager ) and does not really have the weak palate or flavor of a pale lager. I wish I’d had a bottle of this that was not skunked.

Rated:31.05.2007
Bottle green,500 ml, extract of wort 12 %
Aroma and flavour is very wierd, probably it is the rice inside that makes it all bad, texture is rather strange as well. Rather poor beer and bizarre for its style.

Bottle from nostalgia. Aroma is grainy, noteable corn or some other non barley sugar comign through, herbal grassy hop, slightly iodiney. Taste is similar, the bitteriness is nearly ink, as in when you lick your fingers are reading a newspaper. Easy enough to drink, but not a very hot beer.

Slightly skunky clove and fennel aroma. Shimmering amber pour, no head. Lemon grass and clove, good balance. Grass in the end. Not an ordinary lager and refreshing after a workout.