Bottle @ Fontanelle Camping. Pours clear golden with a small white head. Aroma of malt, grian, sugar, hay. Flavor is sweet, malty, grainy, sugary, alcohol. Medium body, average carbonation, sweet finish. 200722

Big ol' 7fiddy bottle from Tesco Inverurie. It pours clear amber with a decent frothy white head. The aroma is stinky sweet lager, boozy slap, damp grain, cereal, nuttiness, wet grass, biscuit and bread. The taste is crisp, dry, bitter - sweet, grassy, floral, spicy, icing sugar like sweetness, bready malts, sweet biscuit (like the sweet one you get in a selection of crackers for cheese), spicy, damp leaves, herbal and a slap of booze with a bitter - sweet finish. Medium+ body and moderate, prickly carbonation. Actually don't mind this at all. Big and boozy. Kicks you right in the arse. Chuggable if cold.

"Reserved for the most demanding palate", apparently - but this merely encompasses a palate unfamiliar to anything else than standard pale lager, I insist to add; from a doubtlessly expensive, 'reliefed' green bottle, at the restaurant connected to very recommendable Bois du Cazier site in Marcinelle. This one is among Spain's most popular industrial standard lagers, under the wings of 'big boss' Mahou San Miguel. Snow white, cobweb-lacing, frothy, irregular but stable head, crystal clear warm and very pure 'old gold' colour with calm but steady visible sparkling. Aroma of breakfast cereals, dry straw, iron pipes, damp cotton cloth, raw spinach leaf, a hint of thyme (weirdly), even green celery somewhere, freshly cut grass and that recognizable - but in this case admittedly relatively subtle - 'cooked' smell of pasteurisation. Sweetish-cereally onset, neutral in fruitiness (in other words, none at all and none expected), lively carbonated with minerally effect, stingy even; smooth cereally pale maltiness with a thin layer of unfermented, honeyish sweetishness on top but also a clear metallic 'zing' at the edges. Some onsetting oxidation but very faint, followed by a weird and unexpected, yet weak herbal note (that thyme again) and a very friendly and brief but notably grassy hop bitter accent. That herbal touch surprised me, it kind of caught me off guard so to speak, but I wonder if it fits well in this kind of semi-strong Euro pale lagers; of course that bland, 'cooked-to-death' cerealliness remains the dominant factor here, with a metallic and grainy edge matching completely with what one can expect from an industrial pale lager. Bit unusual, granted, but not necessarily for the best; perhaps finetuning a German style Pilsener at its usual 5% ABV would have impressed me more as 'Reserva'. Still, have an extra point for at least trying to be distinct in a vast ocean of bland pale lagers covering the entire planet.

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Bottle at Delicatessen, Bod�. Has a clear amber colour with a big off-white head. Aroma of grains, sweet corn, pale malt, grass and spicy hops. Flavour of grains, pale malt and some grass and alcohol. Has a slick mouth feel, light to medium body and a soft bitterness. Decent and malty with a nice aroma. A little unbalanced and careful flavour.

Great cafe, great sandwich

Bottled 330ml (Mr. Beer, Sevilla). Pale copper, small white head. Light sweetish aroma. Light-bodied to medium-bodied. Sweet malts, light grass. Non-offensive but boring.