33cl bottle shared with iphonefan. Thin white head. Clear pale golden pour. Not great.

0.35l bottle as "Palma Cristal" in a green bottle. This is a crystal clear golden one with a few floaters floating around and a quickly fading bubbly white lager-head. It smells quite skunky with lots of cardboard and it's about as grainy as a beer can be. The taste is sweet and artificial. Some rubbery tones and did I mention that it's unnaturally sweet? Well, it is. Average carbonation and a watery mouthfeel. Drinkable, but strange and not very good. 07.08.2012

Served from a bottle labeled "Palma Cristal" into a fluted glass at La Cubanita restaurant in Delft. Light grassy aroma, not much head, but plenty of carbonation. Clear light color. Not much flavor but a hint of bitterness in the finish. OK accompaniment with spicy food -- sure beats water.

Bottle. Pale golden with an ok-head. Cereals, partially fermented. fruity. Boring.

March 2009: Green 33cl bottle with a month of life left according to the neck. Poured into a ’La Chouffe’ stemmed tulip glass, I wanted to give the beer every chance of getting a decent score. Lives up to its name, crystal clear and very pale golden in colour. The white head consisted of large bubbles but these soon fell away to leave next to nothing sat on top of the body. Truely odourless, gets my standard 3 for a non-smelling lager. Sharp and crisp, not bad really. Not sure there is a great hop/yeasty/beery flavour, but it does have a taste that isn’t metallic, cardboardy or nasty. It is however thin and without any body. As I drink my way around the world I can’t help noticing how crap some lagers are, this is just above the worst pile, but not very far away. Plus points, it is my first ever Cuban beer, it is also going to be my last ever Cuban beer (unless someone buys me another one!).

350ml bottle. Clear golden colour with average, quickly fading macropore white head. Grainy aroma, monotonous taste not far from water.

Originally rated January 2005. Heading down to Cuba in a week, I decided to grab this brew which is self-proclaimed as "La preferida de Cuba". It poured a light golden colour with a small white head, but some good lacing. The nose was rather malty and the taste started on a bitter note and then finished on a clean grassy mouth. Good carbonation, and probably very good for the Cuban heat as a refreshment. Other then that, nothing special. Sampled from their green 330ml bottle.

330 ml bottle from long time ago and no exist places Gambrynus in Warsaw (Blue City Center). and 355ml can from my friend Tomek. Thanks for this. piana w obu przypadkach sporawa, srednio trwala, jasna zlota barwa, lagerek wodnisty, malo slodowy i malo chmielny, ot tak do wypicia latem, bardzo pijalne wiec niektorzy wysoko ten rarytas ocenia:)

Labeled Palma Cristal. Mild smell of hops. Pale golden colour, foamy small head. Watery, a faint of sweetness. Very light aroma. Decent palate.