5.8

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5

Bottle at home, found at Gall&Gall. Golden with white head. Sweet malts, grain, alcohol. Sweet and moderate bitter. Medium body and soft carbonation. Tastes of terrible headaches and hangovers. --- Beer merged from original tick of Plato 18.25 on 08 Jan 2018 at 13:00 - Score: 5

6

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6

Flesje gekregen van Tomhendriksen. Goudgeel troebel bier met weinig schuim. Geur van mout, hop en gedroogd gras. Smaak is moutig en hoppig. Smaak ebt meteen weg.

7.1

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

Fles gedeeld met Roelzie1986. Het is een goudgeel bier met een medium witte schuimkraag. Het heeft een hoppige geur. De smaak is moutig en hoppig.

4.5

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 5

30cl bottle. A clear golden beer with a mid-sized most good lasting white head. Aroma of strong pale malt, corn, cereals. Taste of strong grainy malt, cereals, straw, not too sweet, mild bitterness, meh...

6

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5

Bottle from an Albert Heijn supermarket in Hulst, southern Netherlands; according to the front label explicitly intended as an "imperial lager" so hopefully not the malt liquor rubbish that was their Gladiator... From a 30 cl bottle of which the back label tries to seek a connection between the great philosopher Plato and the name of this brew, which is likely more inspired by the old system of measuring alcohol strength in beer by means of degrees Plato. Medium sized, off-white, tightly 'papery' lacing head quickly dissipating in the middle but leaving an intricate pattern of flat 'islands', atop a pure and warm golden beer with vaguely ochre-ish hue, hazed by a 'fog' of yeast throughout. Rather weird, industrial but admittedly quite original aroma of limoncello, lemon-scented hand soap and "Napoléon" lemon candy, gin, candied banana, rubber, lavender, pineapple slices, washing powder, popcorn drenched in honey (or indeed 'Honey Pops'), plaster, kitchen towel, industrial lime juice from a plastic bottle, sugarloaf, peppermints, wodka, green tea, minerals. Neutral onset, sweetish with some residual 'blank' sugars, no fruity esteriness apart from a chewing gum-like thing, medium carbonated, supple and slick, soapy mouthfeel, feeling lighter than its ABV actually. Rounded cereally middle, simple and a tad popcorn-like with this oily thing continuing but eventually turning into plaster- or plastic-like sensations (unpleasantly so), while an aromatic 'force' tries to save the day by adding retronasal impressions of peppermint candy (utterly refreshing, I must admit, but in the completely wrong way), faint tulip and lime zest; meanwhile a thin but spicy, refined hop bitterness descends upon this malty and corny, frankly rather bland sweetness, a tad resiny and herbal (green tea!) but failing to wipe up that soapy, residual-sugary, corny and cereally sweetness that makes this whole thing less pleasurable than it could have been. Unsurprisingly, and I'm sincerely frightened to swallow, an obnoxious, wodka-like alcohol flavour and -heat jumps in at the end - rendering the aftertaste as simple as soapy sweetish grains plus 'white' alcohol, with only a trace - albeit quite persistently so - of that late, tonic water-ish hop bitterness remaining. Rather unpleasant for sure, but somehow less bad than I feared when I bought it for the sake of having another Dutch 'tick' - I would never ever order something like this in a pub, but admittedly, for a pimped, super-strength supermarket alcoholics' lager, this performs way above average, contrary to their Gladiator. But that still isn't saying a lot, is it... Summarizing: this is an 'imperial' lager indeed, in being a tad more refined and distinguished from its dreadful alcoholic - and cheap - brethren, but I am still failing to see the point in that whole "imperial pils" concept. Still, with that Gladiator of many a moon ago still fresh in mind, this could have been way, way worse.

6.5

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8

Bottle at home. Pale yellow color, small white head. Doesn't look special. Not much aroma, but the taste is good. I think that's because the abv.

5.9

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5

Clear blond colour with thin head. Aroma has a little grass and alcohol. Flavour has some malt and apple peel.

6

9/10/17: Ridiculously sweet. Very fruity as well, loads of mandarin. Light for its ABV, and very drinkable once you get used to the sweetness.

5.4

Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5

Heller, süßlich alkoholischer Antrunk. Milde Herbe, Karamell, die Alkoholnoten steigen an. Dann deutlich grasig, vergleichsweise süffig, vollmundig. Mittellanger, weich karbonisierter Nachhall. 7/9/8/8/9/8

7

Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7

Clear pale golden colour, tall macropore foamy white head, dissipating slowly, fair lacing. Aroma sweet malts, grain, light citrus, some caramel. Taste medium sweet and bitter, malty, grainy, candy sugar, spicy and alcohol notes. Malty sweetbitter aftertaste, bit earthy, light spicy notes, bit boozy, medium body, oily texture, lively carbonation, smooth and well-balanced, very nice.