Steinlager Classic

Brewed by Lion Breweries - NZ (Lion Nathan Co.)
Style: Pale Lager
Auckland, New Zealand

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

blech. one of the flattest most uninspiring beers i’ve had in a while. it would probably rate lower ’cept i had already had a number before this one.

Pours a clear straw color with a thin, white head. Aroma is malty with a slight skunkiness. Taste is not as bad as I thought it would be ...rich for a pale lager: sweet and malty with a pleasantly bitter hop presence. Overall, not a bad sort of beer.

Pours clear yellow with a mostly receding white head. Aroma is grassy, slightly bready. Taste is metallic, grainy, and not good. But also not bad. Taste is somewhat bready with enough hop bitterness to provide a contrast. Slightly sour at first, and unnerving. This one has a strange hop tang in the finish, quite unusual. This is a bad beer, but it leaves me guessing. Think Heine or Becks with a funky hop finish.

Pale yellow hue, delicate floral hops, with a soft malty nose, but skunky smell at the opening of the bottle, medium-bodied palate with sweet grainy malt flavor, leading to a mild earthy hops finish.

Clear yellow color, short head. Bit grainy aroma. Quite light and watery in taste. Just average.

Bottle. Pours light gold with a small frothy white head and a rock film. Sweet yeast (dough) and sour malt (hay, straw) aroma. Acidic bitter sour malt and tart hop flavor. Light bodied and dry palate.

Pale gold color with no head. Smells like a skunk... but suprisingly doesn’t taste like one. However the moldy grain silo more than makes up for it. Slightly bitter.

My first Kiwi beer. I’ve had a few already so I’ll give a proper review shortly but as it stans, I like it. (750ml bottle)