Quilmes Cristal

Brewed by Cerveceria Malteria Quilmes SAICAY (InBev)
Style: Pale Lager
Buenos Aires, Argentina

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

Pour is flat, lifeless. Settles a clear, dull medium gold. Few soda-pop bubbles cling helplessly to the side of the glass, very few raise to atmosphere. A scant island of white in the centre is all that separates me from the beer. An eggy, sulphury burp is prelude to notes of seaweed and damp grass, some barnyard grain and an odd whiff of soft cheese. Moderate prickle of carbonation then lifeless, watery thin in body. Drabby, damp cardboard, sour malt and hops in back, a sweetness to it reminiscent of fairy floss and vanilla essence. Very low bitterness, dry, dusty herbal note just on the swallow. Finishes crisp with no length which gives it some points I suppose. Couldn’t stand it by the second sip but becomes eerily quaffable half way through. Just another average macro-lager. (Labelled Quilmes Cerveza, 33cL BB 21/09/10, Dan Murphy’s Morley)

Normaali vaaleille lagereille tyypillinen, kultainen väri. Ehkä hieman samaiselle oluttyypille normaalia paksumpaa vaahtoa, jota on myös ihan kivasti. Tavallinen, viljainen aromi varustettuna ripauksella hedelmäisyyttä. Maussa maissi tulee esiin (tarkistaa tässä vaiheessa pullon kyljestä, onko oluessa varmasti maissia). Hivenen makea ja melko raikas. Ei surkean surkea, muttei erityisesti loistakaan maukkaudellaan. Tälläkään oluella ei ole selvästikään pyritty loukkaamaan kenenkään makuaistia.

03-DEC-2010, bottle @Ulkløbben @Henrik. Definately my first Argentinian beer. But that is the only remarkable thing here... Light golden with nice white head. Sweet light malts. Fine clean, crisp brew with just a little sweetness.

(330ml bottle) very pale clear with a lasting oily white bubbled head. Nose of stale grain, fishy, body odor, and some apple. Taste of apple, butter, light watery grains. Quite crisp on the palate. Nothing TOO offensive but it’s not very good either.

Bottle. Pours yellow with a fluffy white head. Faint aroma of generic "beer", not much else. Taste is very plain, very watery with a faint bitterness at the end. It’s a basic lager with no negatives, but no positives either. Just plain average.

Bottle. Honey gold with no head. Dull cardboard aroma and flavour. Sweet finish. Oily

Average beer. The beer of the crowd / common people in Argentina. Almost the cheapest.

Bottle 330ml. Color clear yellow with small head. Aroma grain. Taste grain, spicy.