Tusker Lager

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

Pours golden with a big foamy white head, slight aroma of bananas, perfectly drinkable with a slight metallic taste. Good for a hot day.

Bottle shared with and courtesy of tupalev. Pours a clear pale yellow with an average size diminishing white head. Aroma of sweet and funky grain. Flavour has a weird sweet grainy taste along with some stale hops. Quite watery. This is not very good.

Bottle, expired a month ago, shared with Blankboy. Very very light yellow, small bubbly head. Faint honey aroma. Nothing. Nothing taste. Again, slightly honey sweet. Not good. Blah blah....But probably another new country.

Bright golden lager with a small white head. Interesting hoppy aroma. The taste is what one would expect: rather thin and lacking in bitterness. Not the worst ever lager.

LCBO bottle- Darker gold colour with an active white froth, that leaves in a hurry. Sweet grainy nose, with some hops, vegetables, and corn. Sweet hoppy vegetable flavours, with lingering bitterness. Not much to this one. Passed on it about 100 times, and decided to get it to giver er a whirl.

Like jpm30’s bottle, mine expired on the end of March 2006. I saw this in several liquor stores in the Northern suburbs of Chicago, and a batch of this expired back in 2004! Tusker’s my first African beer. It had a grainy scent (whew!). Astringent, yet clean and refreshing finish. It’s an OK lager.

From a 500ml. brown bottle with a best before date on the front label, Mar/2006. Made a good appearance, poured a chill hazy pale straw yellow with a large, rocky white head that settled into a thin, clingy bubbly lacing, moderate carbonation. Had a clean aroma, a sweet cracker maltiness and a light herbal hoppiness. A crisp, slick light bodied mouth feel, above average drinkability. Clean tasting as well, a sweet cracker grainy, a mellow herbal hop bitterness and a crisp, dry cracker finish.

Slightly hazy pale golden color with a thin frothy white head. Somewhat sweet aroma, hints of apple. Sweet flavor, hints of apple with some grain in the aftertaste.