16 oz can. Poor head in terms of retention. Alarmingly transparent, gold body. Sweet vegetal nose. Very sweet palate. Drying alcohol in the finish. Nasty lingering vegetal taste. As expected.
Beck’s Sapphire
2.05 out of 5.00 | Under Par
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Moritz
Thanks go out to DogBrick for the chance to try this. I suppose it depends on what you are looking for at any one particular juncture. If you want a macro-colored, well carbonated, sweet lager brew with some veggie highlights and some mild cereal,...
3.00 out of 5.00 | Drinkable
Krasny Vostok Zhigulevskoe
Always scary stuff when one reaches for an Eastern European lager. Not many high quality beers in this genre from that part of the world if the truth be known. This one came from a Russian Supermarket on the East side of Atlanta. Pour is as...
1.63 out of 5.00 | Drain Pour
Zywiec Beer
$2.49 for the 500 mL bottle from a Russian supermarket out in Decatur, GA, USA. Sometimes you just get a moment when a beer is simply perfect for the circumstance. Zywiec happened to fill one of those moments for me yesterday. Very little to report...
3.36 out of 5.00 | Drinkable
James Boag’s Premium Lager
12 oz single from Total Wine, Kennesaw, GA, USA. Extraordinary color (or more accurately a LACK of color) on the pour. It is transparent to the point of being crystal clear with a pale golden hue. Good lace on the glass from an unimpressive head....
2.15 out of 5.00 | Under Par
Afanasy Svetloye
Firstly, I cut and pasted the first part of this review from my review of the Dark, since a number of things are exactly the same. Review #1600. Well, interesting one this. 11.2 fl oz bottle that is a very attractive sight with its pyramid shape...
2.29 out of 5.00 | Under Par
Premium Lager
As a single from Total Wine, Kennesaw, GA, USA. Standard look with all the things I am looking for from the style; a golden pour with exceptional clarity. A pretty good head, some lace and no skunk. It hits on all of these points, and in addition...
3.80 out of 5.00 | Good
Podkovan Lager
500 mL bottle, $2.19 Arbor Place Beverage, Douglasville, GA, USA. Looks like a new addition to the store along with the Dark. Like a few other BA's, at first glance I thought this was probably a Czech *Pils*, but after closer inspection that...
3.33 out of 5.00 | Drinkable
Harbin Lager
20070506B1450 dot matrixed on the rear label. 330 mL bottle as part of a mixed, $7.99 sixer from Mac's Midtown, Atlanta, GA, USA. A full six pack would be a complete waste. Pour is very pale, even anticipating the style. Nice looking head...
2.35 out of 5.00 | Under Par
Kells Irish Style Lager
$5.49, City Beverage, Winston-Salem, NC, USA. 22oz bomber. One of the few Rogue offerings that we do not get in GA so I thought I should pick it up. Nice pour. Plenty of decent head and some lace. Slighly clouded appearance with some honey color in...
3.01 out of 5.00 | Drinkable
Baltika #2 Svetloye
Poured into the Tucher Weizen glass which can make almost any beer look good. Single from Beverage Resort in Kennesaw, GA, USA. Light gold pour, not much head or lace. Pretty sweet and grainy, but no skunk, fairly smooth and a decent balance. Macro...
3.38 out of 5.00 | Drinkable
Oranjeboom Premium Lager
WOW, this takes me back! Picture the scene - 1992-1999, De Hems Dutch pub on the edges of Chinatown in London. A Friday night out with the boys, and amongst other stuff, the Oranjeboom is flowing! Shame really, because it ain't a very good beer at...
3.15 out of 5.00 | Drinkable
Damm Barcelona
$1.99 single 12 oz, Reilly's, Hilton Head Island, SC, USA. Crystal clear pour with a small head that disappears quickly to leave a ring of lace on the surface of the beer and a few wisps of low density lace on the glass. Dry, clean and crisp with a...
2.36 out of 5.00 | Under Par
Baltika #5 Gold
Part of what appears to be a renewed marketing drive on the Baltika products in Georgia, this appeared with a large range of Baltika beers, that from memory, have been slightly repackaged and spruced up. 500 mL clear glass bottle (sensitive folks...
2.89 out of 5.00 | Under Par
Samuel Smith’s Organically Produced Lager Beer
Additional notes 07/08/23 (pictured) This is now called "Pure Brewed ORGANIC LAGER BEER". This is a 355 mL bottle from Half-Time, not one of the old, larger bottles. The clarity and pale color of the pour is quite staggering, as is the lacing which...
4.30 out of 5.00 | Very Good
Herold Bohemian Wheat Lager
Golden butterscotch cloudy pour, with a nice head and a small amount of lacing. Rather unusual in the smell and the taste. There is an amazingly strong fruit taste that has a typical over-ripe banana taste as the underlying feature, but then comes...
3.92 out of 5.00 | Good
Tennent’s Lager
Utterly non-descript and low quality beer experience. Pale urine colored pour, some decent carbonation and a small but perfectly formed head. Some scant lacing. Mild skunk and a typical macro lager corn/grain aroma. Thin body, and a sweet...
2.09 out of 5.00 | Under Par
Steinlager
Extremely pale yellow with a very frothy head that leaves some nice lacing and it lingers. The look is so very pale it doesn't promise much, but the beer drinks a little better than the initial look. As others have noted, mainly grassy, grainy mild...
3.07 out of 5.00 | Drinkable
Rhinebecker Extra
Very pale straw color, with a small but quite billowy head. Some half-decent lacing completes the appearance. Aroma is very pilsner like, with those floral hops and a little malt. Taste reflects the nose, with a little hop bitterness in the finish...
3.13 out of 5.00 | Drinkable
Lion Lager
Drinkable, but instantly forgetable. Nothing to report here except a very, very light, sweet (malty) lager with no head or lacing to speak of that could be any one of one thousand other beers. Nothing to bring me back for any reason. Taco Mac in...
2.15 out of 5.00 | Under Par
Singha
Like a succession of Asian inspired/rooted macro lagers, this is very unremarkable, but at the same time pretty unoffensive too. There is very little to report about many of these beers - standard macro lager appearance and pour, with little or no...
2.92 out of 5.00 | Under Par
Doctor Diesel
Extremely average, light colored lager with little to commend it from any point of view. Malts and grains in the nose serve to confirm what one would expect from the pale, piss colored pour with no head. Slightly higher ABV than normal gives a...
2.90 out of 5.00 | Under Par
Peroni Nastro Azzurro
Very, very little to report here. Simple, and very pale lager color with a surprisingly good, billowing head that was pleasing. Decent crispness and refreshing character. No skunk - absolutely vital in these beers - a decent warm weather thirst...
2.93 out of 5.00 | Under Par
Baltika #3 Classic
Updated notes 10/18/23 (Pictured) Again, 18 years between these notes and tastings. Head is better, and better retained than the notes below suggest in 2023. Outside of that, many of the same attributes are present making this 'not awful', and that...
2.95 out of 5.00 | Under Par
Bogemia
$2.49 Chapel Hill Package Store, Douglasville, GA, USA. Very clear yellow pour out of the 1 pint 0.9 fl oz bottle with green labels. Labels say it is brewed and bottled by OAO Krasny Vostok Brewery, Kazan, Russia. Aroma exactly like cider. Lots of...
3.54 out of 5.00 | Good
Tuborg Premium Lager (Gold / Guld)
Haven't seen any Tuborg around for the best part of 25 years! I was amazed when I saw it, and my interest was aroused simply because I assumed it had been discontinued long, long ago. I only recall the green label in the past, not this gold label...
2.74 out of 5.00 | Under Par
Mythos Hellenic Lager Beer
Ordinary, but smooth, non-descript but refreshing, simple but clean. Standard macro looking pour, but a really nice head with some lacing. This is an ordinary lager and an ordinary product in general, but I really enjoyed it. I ask very little of...
3.85 out of 5.00 | Good
Samuel Smith’s Pure Brewed Lager Beer
What's this all about then? I have to laugh at the style that BA lists this as, "Euro Pale Lager". Of course, Americans are still under the impression that England is part of Europe in a way that reaches beyond geography, when *we* all know that...
2.89 out of 5.00 | Under Par
Harp Lager
100% forgettable. Simply characterized as a standard lager, slightly above the quality of most North American macros, but lost in that sea of mediocrity that lies between those American domestics and the quality European lagers. Appearance is OK...
2.51 out of 5.00 | Under Par
Baltika #1 Light
$2.19, Arbor Place Beverage Depot, Douglasville, GA. Incredibly light colored beer, with the standard macro smell, head and appearance. Although this beer has a macro feel to it it gets a slightly higher rating from me because it is a little...
3.30 out of 5.00 | Drinkable
Birra Moretti
$1.49 per bottle as part of mixed six pack, World Market, Marietta, GA. 355 mL. Pours a vary plae straw color with little or no head. Some significant lacing throughout the drink. This brew is another good example of the style, encapsulating what a...
3.36 out of 5.00 | Drinkable
Heineken Lager Beer
I've drunk this stuff off and on for the best part of 25 years and frankly I'm very confused with its success and general popularity. I'm not sure, but I believe the general ignorance of the American beer drinking public allows this to be sold,...
2.11 out of 5.00 | Under Par
Stella Artois
I was brought up with Stella being marketed as a "Premium" lager and therefore a more expensive lager. They used to run an advertising campaign that described the beer as "reassurringly expensive". I always found this mildly offensive, thinking...
3.76 out of 5.00 | Good
Fischer Bitter
1 Pint, 6 floz, "Grolsch" type flip top bottle. In fact, this French lager is not what I call a bitter at all. It's simply a slightly above average European lager to me. Very reminiscent of Kronenbourg 1664 or Grolsch itself (which isn't a bad...
3.18 out of 5.00 | Drinkable