2.1 AROMA 1/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 9/20
Green glass and overseas journeys don’t mix. This bottle was skunked all to heck and gone and while there might be some redeeming qualities buried pretty deep, this was what it was, and what it was was a skunked pale lager.
3.3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 13/20
Appearance: Pours a clear, cadmium yellow body with a thinnish, white head.
Smell: Initial wafts of skunk -- afterwards, what remains is light, delicate notes of maltiness and a slight trace of vaguely spicy hops.
Taste: Light pale malts with a subdued clover honey sweetness and touch of fresh bread. Slight spicy hops with a balancing bitterness. Finishes dry, crisp, and fairly clean.
Mouthfeel: Light-bodied. Medium carbonation.
Drinkability: Well, that was surprisingly sufficient. Nicely balanced and easily drinkable.
2.4 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 2/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 8/20
UPDATED: JUN 28, 2009 On tap @ Ditka Dome. Typical pale lager, except with a little more hops than usual. A little grassy with a lot of corn and blah. Not to bad for a pale lager, but would drink this over Bud/Miller.
2 AROMA 3/10 APPEARANCE 2/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 8/20
My Bottom Line:
This skunked Pale Lager does offer some wet hay flavors before plummeting into a watery and mineral void. This is not for the flavor-seeking.
Further Personal Perceptions:
-A veil of foam sinks into the transparent pale yellow.
-Green Bullet hops? Really? Wow.
-Bubbles take more room than anything else in the mouthfeel.
-The body is a tad too slender for my tastes, making this absurdly drinkable.
Bottle.
1 AROMA 1/10 APPEARANCE 2/5 TASTE 2/10 PALATE 1/5 OVERALL 4/20
UPDATED: APR 19, 2009 Bottle at The Kick Off in Waterloo, for shits n’ giggles I guess (my 21st b-day and looking for ratings). Pours out a very pale and lively yellow with a medium white fizz. Aroma is all corn, sweet, sweet corn. Flavour is the same, maybe a touch of plastic and no hops whatsoever. Maybe better in New Zealand, the land of extreme sports. Would love to visit someday. Yeah, New Zealand, now there’s a cool looking place....Oh crap I got off track there for a second, I guess that’s since this is such a boring beer.
2.2 AROMA 4/10 APPEARANCE 1/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 10/20
bottle. Ironic they are showing us some rough rubgy guys oin the beer, when this is actually some poor pathetic lager.
Pours clear golden, thick white head.
aroma, just weak, hops, some grains, malts, all in a weak way.
Taste, hops, corn like flavor forward, sweet malts, reains better than many other pale lagers, dry finish, skunly metallic palate.
2.1 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 2/5 TASTE 4/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 8/20
Bottle at the Gourmet Burger Kitchen, Ealing, with tashi, 10th April. Pity they were out of bottled ale as this is dire. Pale gold with a large frothy head. Interesting hop side to the aroma but the expected cheap malts on the tongue. Bland and watery.
2.5 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 7/20
Une petite blonde qui se boit dans les GBK de Londres. Agréable pour manger, mais pas vraiment de puissance.
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