Sagres
Sociedade Central de Cervejas e Bebidas in Vialonga, Lisbon, Portugal 🇵🇹
Lager - Pale Regular|
Score
4.55
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4.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 3
Flavor 3
Texture 6
Overall 4
Portugal’s national standard lager since 1940, with snow white, thick and frothy, even slightly gushing head supported by very strong, fizzy carbonation; colour a cristal clear, pale golden blonde. Very weak aroma (even at higher temperature): some corn sweetishness, hint of white bread, iron, field flowers and a whiff of grassy hops. Sweetish in the onset, corn, a tiny bit bready, very metallic with the expected strong carbonation; finish is mostly the lingering malt and corn sweetness, insufficiently balanced by a trace of floral and grassy hop bitterishness. In all: thirst-quenching as you can expect from the style, but just another generic standard pale lager, with too much corn sweetness and too metallic. I wonder when the craft beer revolution is going to reach Portugal - but considering the fact that it is already penetrating in its neighbour Spain, I expect something to happen there too within the coming years.
Tried
from Can
on 28 Feb 2015
at 06:46
2.5/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 3
Flavor 2
Texture 2
Overall 2
1 litre bottle (with twist top!) into glass. Pours amber with many fine bubbles. Nose is very sweet though faint. Watery body with a bit of spritz. Aftertaste is bad, lingering vegetables, tin and a hint of bubblegum. Not enjoyable. I’m drinking this ice-cold, can’t imagine how bad it is when it warms.
Tried
from Bottle
on 30 Jan 2015
at 20:38
4.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 2
Flavor 4
Texture 8
Overall 3
Can from the Regal (JDW), Cambridge. Deep orange with a small to medium white head. Smell - ugh. Urine, malt, sour lemon and must. Taste is an improvement. Bitter and sulphurous with a corn syrup sweet finish. Pleasant enough body but this is all around bad. Didn’t even come close to finishing the can.
Tried
from Can
on 07 Dec 2014
at 13:29