Tusker Lager

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

Bottle. Pours a pale yellow pour with quicklty disintergrating fluffly white head. Mild sweet malt aroma, light floralness. Taste is light sweet malts, light floralness, watery

Bottle at the LCBO - My first African beer! Pours very pale yellow with nearly no head. Aroma is very faint, but you can pick up on some slight malts and grass. The taste is also faint, but somewhat bitter (not in a good way) and simple. Not a great beer, but fairly OK considering it’s from Kenya.

500 mL Bottle. Pale straw body with a thin bubbly white head that settles to a wispy film lacing the sides of the glass. Aroma wet hay, grains, and somewhat metallic. Flavor is mostly like cereal and straw in liquid form, thin and somewhat watery in the mouth. Grains and corn husk in the aftertaste. Something phenolic about the finish. It struggles to make a decent impression. I might remember it if I ever travel to Africa.

12oz bottle. Pours a clear gold color with a big white head. head receeds to a light film very quickly. Nose is light grain notes and some straw. Palate is thin and fizzy. Flavors of graininess and light straw with some carbonation in the finish.

The only thing good I can say after drinking this is... I crossed Kenya off my list and I don’t have to drink it again. The only flavor is a bad metallic flavor.

Notes from Seattle International Beer Festival. Pours crystal clear and pale golden. Could use a little more carbonation. Not much flavor. Another imitation of an American macro beer but not a as terrible as others would have you believe.

500ml bottle from Tesco. Very metallic aroma. Pale amber with medium head with large bubbles. Very metallic flavour. Very much overcarbonated and way too watery. No finish to speak of. Might just as well drink water instead of this.

[BB End 2004] Poured a pale golden color with a medium white head that left light lacing on the glass. Aroma of oxidation, corn, citrus, and grains. Taste of cardboard, corn, metal, and grainy oxidation. Not that great. Sampled while watching Three Sheets Tanzania, thanks to my Kenyan co-worker.