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Shaw Wallace in Calcutta, West Bengal, India 🇮🇳
Lager - Malt Liquor Regular|
Score
4.07
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4.6/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 4
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 4.5
A nice bitterness and some sweetness. Not very alcoholic in flavor despite the high alcohol content. Amber in color with a quickly fading white head.
Tried
on 29 Jul 2012
at 05:31
3.6/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 4
Flavor 4
Texture 2
Overall 3.5
Drunk in Bengaluru. Malty, sweet smell. Pale golden colour, high white head. Very mild aroma, alcohol strongly present. Sweet aftertaste due to that. Very flat carbon, almost nonexistant. Some malts and metal also to be found.
Tried
on 02 Jun 2012
at 04:59
4.1/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 5
Flavor 4
Texture 4
Overall 3.5
Wässrig süß, wenig herb, geringe Getreidigkeit. Süffig, trocken (zum Ende sehr trocken), bitterer Nachhall. Trinkbar. 6/6/8/6/7/6
Tried
on 17 Apr 2012
at 02:00
3.6/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 4
Flavor 4
Texture 2
Overall 3.5
Sample at Ale Wine & Spirits in Powell on 09/02/2011. The beer is clear gold with a medium thin and fizzy white head that burns away rapidly. Spotty lacing on the glass. Grainy malt and a bit of skunk in the nose. Medium body with a sweet malty character that has grain and vegetable notes. Touches of hops in the background. The finish retains the grain and cereal malt theme. Not a very good beer.
Tried
on 07 Sep 2011
at 08:22
5/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 5
Flavor 4
Texture 6
Overall 6
Cool, india pale lager, IPL, heheh. Looks like pale lager. Smell is mild lager, no volatile hints of 7+%! Strong initial nearly cheap ice lager almost malt liquor feel. Fairly easy to takefor a rather high alky beer. Tdescription of this beer is quigte funny, heheh. Pretty good CO2 sizzle. Finish aproaches rude but is more civilized than american vresions, if they can be compared.
Tried
from Can
on 22 Feb 2011
at 14:43
4.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 4
Texture 6
Overall 4
10th February 2009
Purchased from a road side stall outside Delhi. An 8.0% can. Clear gold beer, frothy white head. Doesn’t taste like 8.0%. Crisp and dry. Just shows a little strength in the malty finish. Could not drink much of this!
Purchased from a road side stall outside Delhi. An 8.0% can. Clear gold beer, frothy white head. Doesn’t taste like 8.0%. Crisp and dry. Just shows a little strength in the malty finish. Could not drink much of this!
Tried
from Can
on 23 Jan 2011
at 04:40
5.1/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
650 mL bottle from Beer Run in Charlottesville, VA. Pours a clear golden color with a thin white head. Fair head retention and lacing. Aroma of tart grainy malts, mild skunk, banana, acetone. The taste is sweet grainy notes with a raw malt finish. Green banana notes with a bit of caramel. Slightly metallic finish. Thin-medium bodied. Not bad, but certainly typical of an Indian pale lager.
Tried
from Bottle
on 26 Oct 2010
at 13:16
4.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 4
Overall 4
bottle from Taj Mahal (local Indian restaurant) - Pours clear dark yellow/gold with a small, fizzy white head. It smells of cereal malt and corn. The flavor is sweet and a bit on the boozy side. It’s acceptable but that’s about it.
Tried
from Bottle
on 28 Mar 2010
at 12:12
4.3/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 4
Flavor 4
Texture 4
Overall 5
650ml bottle. Orange, small white head. Nose has somewhat muddled malt and a little citrus. No skunk though - clearly fresh. Taste is of confused malt sweetness. Medium body. Hides its alcohol pretty well. Tastes like holidays to me, which means my expectations were not confounded and the beer recalls good times. This is much better than any of the other strong beers I tried in India and is perfectly tolerable.
Tried
from Bottle
on 01 Feb 2010
at 03:26
2/10
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Appearance 2
Aroma 2
Flavor 2
Texture 4
Overall 1
Found in Bandipur, about 125km northwest of Kathmandu. Explosive pour, foam everywhere. Have to protect my cigars! Zero head after all that, nothing left after mopping up the overflow. Boring yellow. Absolutely no aroma; maybe some alcohol and corn, actually, but barely noticeable. Given the "strong lager" tag on this one maybe that’s a good thing. Barely any flavour? Yes, barely any flavour. Probably lots of rice used in the mix, very smooth, no alcohol, no grains, no hops to speak of in spite of what’s advertised. Good for getting drunk. Not for enjoying a brew.
Tried
on 04 Jan 2010
at 08:08