Harp Export Lager
Guinness (St. James's Gate) in Dublin, Dublin, Ireland 🇮🇪
Lager - Premium Regular|
Score
5.36
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The Celtic Harp is unique to Ireland and is as much a part of being Irish as the love of life, good music and the appreciation of a finely crafted beer. Harp is brewed to the traditional Irish way, from some of the finest barley and purest water in the world, for a fuller, richer flavour. Harp Lager’s distinctive taste complements any cuisine.
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Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 5
From a mixed pack of Irish beers. Typical commercial lager nose. Fermentation grains and added sugars. Average strenght. Visual: Gold blond, clear and sparkling. Average thickness head, rocky, with a good lasting. A slight lacing sticking to glass and leaving some traces. Taste: A thin watery texture is announcing the start of a deception. Cereals are showing up after, but without any conviction. We can feel fresh bread accents, a slight buttery caramel; all that with an absolute discretion. Balance is weak with a moderate carbonation. Hops are almost absent. Une bière commerciale peu intéressante mais qui n’est toutefois pas désagréable.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Bottle, German vesrion. Clear golden color, medium white head. Aroma of biscuit and straw. Taste is plain bitter straw.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 7.5
Przeciętne piwo, ale fajnie że różne od tych stoutów do których przyzwyczaił nas Guinness. Jasne piwo o dość stabilnej pianie, smak jęczmienia słodowanego wyczuwa się wyraźnie. W porównaniu do egzotycznych lagerów jest dobrym piwem
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5
Draft in Venezia. A golden beer with a thin off-white head. The aroma has notes of malt. The flavor is sweet with notes of malt and a bit of caramel, leading to a bitter finish.
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 2 | Flavor - 3 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 2.5
330ml bottle from a supermarket (Tommy) in Dubrovnik. Clear, late straw coloured body. Thin, white head. Metallic to the nose maybe with a touch of mild grain. Notes of fruity hops in the taste, distracted by cardboard. Fizzy and soapy in the mouth (hotel room at Dubrovnic Palace, 29.08.2008).
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 3 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 5
0.33 l bottle, 5% ABV and completely different label, says Harp Premium. I’ll still put it here as nowhere says "export". Poured pale yellow body with quite big head, slowly going down. Strong skunky aroma, sweet, some malts, too, metallicity, don’t like this type of aroma as reminds too much to those NA’s. Flavor is not so bad however, a bit sweet, bitterish, but after two or three sips becomes boring sweet. Finish ugly sweetish and watery. Don’t get the point with this beer, very low average brew, definitely not of the better pale lagers!
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 5
Bottled(330ml). –Golden coloured, medium white head, malty nose. Weak hoppy and not so pleasant malty-caramel aroma. Bitter and sour finish.
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 6
5% version. Seems to be brewed side by side (according to born on dates) with the 4.3 version. That one doesn’t have a trace of the harp, and has "Great Northern Brewery" all over it, and this is quite traditional looking. Doesn’t call itself Harp Export Lager, but it says quite prominently "Imported - Importée" and "Imported Lager". Poured a nice golden colour with a medium to big fluffly white head that went away fast. Initially very fizzy, but that dies out soon enough. The nose is mainly malt, honey, some graininess, and a hint of dust, relatively faint (my nose isn’t exactly in top shape though). The taste is damn smooth, caramelly, with an underlying bitterness that’s not all that pleasant, hints of metal, some sourness. Some very, very weak fruitiness (grape style). Not a brilliant lager, but a solid, drinkable one. I really should’ve had this colder and side by side with the 4.3 version.... guess a rerate is pending for both.
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 4.5
An lightly biscuity maltiness and touch of hop makes this one of the more acceptable internationl lagers.