Ožujsko

50 cl can picked up at the local Lidl discounter. Clear golden colour with a thin white head. Sweet aroma with grasses, fruits and pale malts. Taste is bitter. Medium bodied. Drying, slightly bitter finish. An industrial Lager, yet not that bad.

Clear golden colour with lasting head. Smells like how all beer smelled when you were a kid. A bit grainy, a bit bitter. Low carbonation

Croatian standard lager – the main competitor of that other Croatian macro beer, Karlovačko. Can shared by Craftmember, thanks. Medium thick, moussy, stable head lacing in shards over a clear, yellowish ‘old’ golden beer with visible sparkling – looking a tad darker than usual for a standard pale lager, and indeed a colorant was added to achieve this effect (as such not an uncommon addition in Eastern European industrial lagers). Aroma of the water from a can of corn, actual soggy popcorn, wet chicken food, industrial apple juice of the lowest possible quality, grass, rainwater, old rubber. Sweetish, corn-like flavour, very unidimensional, lots of fizzy carbonation (artificially ‘injected’ of course), thin and cereally from beginning to end with this sweetish effect becoming quite boring and ‘whiny’ if you see what I mean. Luckily though, a grassy, somewhat lingering hop bitterness appears in the end, quite a redeeming factor in this case – the only one. Simple industrial pale lager, typical Eastern European style, with some unpleasant side effects in the nose (that weird rubbery accent), but on the plus side, showing a slightly above average hop bitterness for this dreary style. Unfortunately the basic structure is so poor that I can only give it a poor score - though I did like this one better than its national competitor.