Tusker Lager

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

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

(Can, thanks billiemaria) Pours yellow. Sweet grainy wort flavour with tones of sugar and glue. Herb like hops in the background. Some off aromas of egg and penicillin. Sweet and grainy flavour with sugar and some grass in the background. Off tasting. Watery, light bodied.

The beer exits the 12-ounce bottle a light gold color with a creamy white head that crowns the body, as it erodes; the lace forms a thin sheet upon the glass. Nose has a sweet malt aroma, almost maple syrup; crisp and clean, start has a fair malt presence, thin at the top, which was expected. Finish has a pedestrian acidity, the hops mild but present, dry aftertaste, a fair to middling beer, a product of its environment, certainly better than many beers from such countries.

12oz bottled beer from Africa. When I found this, I had to at least try it and I wasn’t dissapointed. I thought it was a good warm weather beer because, nicely chilled it proved to be a nice getaway from the heat. Even still, there are much better lagers out there.

12 ounce bottle...Pale lemon-orange with an off white fluffy head....sweet aroma, weak banana candy, fake fruits frustrate the nostrils...soft body, thin flavor, easy to swallow, but what am I swallowing??...The poor man (George Hurst) was murdered by an elephant, and the beer still didn’t improve in his honor

Tasted like a macro, cheap and artificial, very watery. Were there any malts or hops used in its making? Could’ve fooled me. Oh well, hopefully Kenya has something better to offer.

UPDATED: NOV 16, 2007 This is quite pleasant, against my expectations at finding a box of Kenyan lager on the floor of Bottle Barn. It is golden, bubbly at 1st, with a moderate, bubbly white head that dissipates fairly quickly. The aroma is mild, being bread dough with a hint of lemon/citrus. The tate is mild malt with plenty of grain, a hint of bitterness and a mild but pleasant, lingering flowery aftertaste. It is a bit watery and fizzy but still has a lively palate and makes up for the defects in flavour and aroma. It’s very pleasant and refreshing and would be great in hot weather.

Bottled, 500ml, pasteurised from Co-Op, Banbury. Pale straw with fizzed white head. I just had to get this as a true Ratebeerian. Flattish cardboardy, corny malt liquor, not sure if its lagered. Light, thin, I can see how it works in the heat of Africa, but unfortunately not in cold Britain.

Clear ordinary looking common beer. Not a bad lager. A bit straw like. But light and refreshing.