On tap in Budapest. Clear golden colour, white head. Aroma of butter, botersnoepjes, light malty, grass. Flavour is medium sweet, light malty, butter, light hoppy finish. Light bodied. Meh.

How: Draught.
Where: Andrassy bisztro, Budapest.
Appearance: Pale golden colour with a white head.
Aroma: Malt, some hops.
Body: Light body, medium carbonation.
Flavour: Sweet malt.

Draught @ Cafe Jubilie, Budapest. Pours yellow with a white head. Aroma of light malt, grain, grass, light fruit. Flavor is light sweet, grain, little grass, hint of apples. Thin to medium body, lively carbonation. 300315

Hungarian standard lager named after the 19th-century brewer Anton Dreher, a famed lager pioneer to whom we owe the Vienna lager style and who bought this Hungarian brewery in 1862, hence the historical link. Cristal clear, pale yellow blonde colour with vivid sparkling supporting a medium thick, densely structured, stable head remaining closed for most of the time and leaving refined lacing. Aroma strongly lightstruck (ammonia), as the green bottle already made me wary of; otherwise some sourish and sweaty graininess, vague hints of white bread and grassy hops. Tastes crisp and ’clean’, minerally with a thin mouthfeel, sourish carbonation, grainy and very lightly malty but not becoming sweet so mostly remaining neutral, slick and a lot less metallic than I had feared, with a rather neutral finish in which some late grassy hop bitterishness develops, but fades away again quite rapidly. Very neutral and thin, to the point where it can be described as ’watery’, but nevertheless quite honest and quenching - but the same thing can be said of mineral water as well. Still interesting to taste a lager from a country not normally known for its beer culture. Many thanks to Sabine for bringing me the bottle from Budapest!

Goldgelbes Bier mit ordentlicher Schaumkrone. Geuch malzig, grasig, leicht hopfig. Geschmack leicht hopfig, grasig, blumig.