Star Lager (Nigeria)

Brewed by Nigerian Breweries PLC (Heineken)
Style: Pale Lager
Lagos, Nigeria

Can 33 cl, drank it directly from the can. Aroma was strongly malty. The flavor is really plain, lots of malts, no hops and the taste disappears from your mouth within 30 seconds. Not extremely bad, but nothing special about this except that it’s from Nigeria.

Bottle from the 24hr shop in wood green had at home. Alround rating: Sweet lager malt exstract, cornish, herbal hop exstract doesnt really balance. Its bad stuff.

Vs Pilsner Urquell. Still yellowy gold with a high turreted head and impressively persistent lacing. Kolsch-like slight aroma involving sweet candyish malt, grassy hop, pale nuttiness, cork, hay, sweetcorn. Pleasant grassy pale lager far-removed from the cocktail of adjuncts I was expecting, with a decent nibble of pilsy hop bitterness. Definite soft conifer and bitterness to finish, no corn even if it’s there. Enjoyable, faintly candyish, grassy and refeshing. Not to mention preferable to 95% of the maize-flavoured yellow fizz marketed as lager in the UK and most of Europe.

Pale yellow beer with a nice white head. But the beer has a minimal opalescent character... Some yeast in the beer?Sourish yeast character in the nose with some buttery yeast perfume. Watery texture, sweet malt and honey taste, hop in the finish. Drinkable but not an exciting one.

Bottle. Pours clear yellow with a white head. Grainy and malty aroma. Light hoppy. Mild cornish and cardboardish flavoured. Bitter and acidic finish. Bland.

Pours gold with a thin white head. Smells of strawberries, sweet corn, appley. Tastes sweet and malty with a watery finish.

Can. Golden colour with a white head. Aroma is fruit, malt, apple. Flavour is fruit, malt, apple, hint of hop. Thin beer.

Can. Thx to little brother. Pours a rather pale golden body with a small white head. A bit artficial fruityness in the aroma, as well as grains, but weak. A little lactic touch as well, but not totally ruining it. Fruity flavor as well, with something reminiscent of hoppy bitterness, as well as pale malt and an unpleasant flavor in the far back. Thin body. There’s a finish too, but the start is better. There’s a fruity-sourish, fruity, malty and slightly bitter flavor, as well as an rather unpleasant something. Touch of alcohol too. I don’t think it’s even suited as thirst quencher. (080402)