Stella Artois

Bottle. Pours a beautiful clear gold color with minimal head and lots of lacing. Like most lagers it smells pretty bad; lots of grains, some yeast, hops and metal. Tastes of grains and yeast with a very slight sweet background. Finishes dry and bittersweet, not a great aftertaste but better than most lagers. Drinkable and widely available, but nothing special here.

Bottle. Pours a thin gold with minimal head and a skunky Beck’s type hops. Flavor is heavy on skunky hops presence with a nice grain background. Still, things are a little thin and rather unidirectional.

330ml bottle from Country Club Liquors; Nose is light caramelly grain; clear gold with a medium white head; flavor has graininess, very lught caramel and light yeastiness.

Bottle poured into a tulip like glass. Light color and higher carbonation with a decent head. Light and crisp but it is still light and not a whole lot of flavor. A bit grainy or yeast like in aroma.

bottle in mbar Helsinki. surprisingly rich and strong flavoured for the style. not at all typical. +++ long and strong aftertaste. something rotten though creeps in the background.

Good beer for the most part but an introduction to greater European light beers and that’s merely it. The style and taste is weaker than Paulaner but the packaging and reputation is better.

bottle, golden color, yeasty aroma, mildly hoppy with a decent finish, not too watery

33cl bottle from Systembolaget Charlotteberg. It poured a light golden color with a medium head. It has a bitter-sweet malty aroma. It has a watered down malty flavor.