Tusker Lager

Brewed by Kenya Breweries (East African Breweries)
Style: Pale Lager
Nairobi, Kenya

This beer is bland and boring but better than most macro lagers. It’s a dull yelllow beer, clear as a bell, with a thin white, dissipating head. My new SN Hop Tulip is actually keeping some head on the beer. The aroma is sweet and simple but without any real fault. The flavor is a lemony sugar malt. It’s a quite refreshing beer. I’d certainly be happier with this beer than most in the style.

Bottle. Stench of skunk upon opening. Considering that this is in a brown bottle (and not a GREEN or CLEAR bottle) that is a BIG red flag!!!!!!! Pours a macro looking yellow with artificial chemical looking white head. The skunky nose doesn’t hit the palate until the swallow. then it’s not as bad as expected, but it is there! A beer in a brown bottle should not have a skunky nose! WTF?!!!?!!! Has a light, slightly nutty flavor. Very light consistency on the palate. This is in the top ten of the worst imported beers I’ve ever had.

Bottle pours a clear very pale straw yellow. Fleeting white head. Pale lager aroma light sweet adjunct smell. Flavor is very odd smokey sour. Very light bodies and the trailer is thankfully very quick.

Pours a clear yellow color with fizzy white head. The nose is husky with light adjuncts and malt with a tinge of herbal hops. The flavor is semi-malty and an odd cherios note in the tail. Very thin and light. Better than all the american light beers, but it’s still just a plain pale lager. A little tart in the tail, but in a way that makes it more interesting. Almost like cooking pumpkins or squash in the flavor.

Has a pale golden color. Aroma is bitter, vinegar, and slight hops. Taste is of light malts, watered down English ale flavor. Has a vinegary aftertaste. Nothing special at all.

Bottle. VERY pale yellow with a medium fizzy head. Aroma of malts. Flavor is cereal and even a little grassy. Nothing spectacular.

23.10.2009, 0,5l Bottle. Colour is pale yellow with a white head. Aroma is weak malty. there is some sweet aromatic flavours. Very low on bitterness with a short aftertaste.

A rather watery beer that employs the "less is more" approach to hops and malt. Very subtle hay/earthen notes to the scent. Thin.