Quilmes Cristal

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

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

Bottle from Matta, #3 in the international lagerathon. Palest of yellow in color, clear. Nice white head with amazing retention and good lacing left behind. Solid aroma for a pale lager, grainy and a touch of grassy hops. Light bodied. Flavor is a jumbled mess. Very light grain and a scant hop bitterness. Really rather bland in flavor and palate. Not offensive.

bottled, pale, not very interesting, however did the job of thirst quenching. have a few bottles of this at the pub after the festival. will probably sell them off to make space in the cellar

After a couple of shocka central american beers I’ve recently tried this "favourite beer" of argentina was compartively good. Decent head (but fell away fast). Corn taste with no hops to tell of. Pretty weak and bland but drinkable.

Yellow with smallish head and lacing. Aroma of malt and corn. Flavor is malt and corn with a metalic finish. Not to bad cold.

Pours a thin, highly carbonated piss-yellow. Palate is thin and unispired. Flavor is a dull thud of weak hops, old banana, and hint of below-grade apple in the finish. I didn’t like this beer, but it wasn’t as bad as I thought it would be.

Average commercial lager, not better than anything available around. Perhaps a litle stronger than the brazilian counterparts, but nothing special about it.

330ml brown bottle. Standard clear pale gold colour with a small foamy white cap which vanishes quickly. Nose has grains and some corny sweetness. Quick dry, grainy malt character, slight grassy middle, mineral notes, then a fairly clean and quick finish. Medium to high carbonation, average body. Beats out a good many domestic pale lagers flavour wise.

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)