Cerveja Super Bock Abadia

19-11-17 // bottle sharing in Frankfurt. Clear amber golden. Sweet malty, some caramel and hobey sweetness. Ok. --- Beer merged from original tick of Super Bock Abadia on 19 Nov 2017 at 20:57 - Score: 4. Original review text: Clear amber golden. Sweet malty, some caramel and hobey sweetness. Ok.

Clear copper and cola coloured body with a slight off-white head, about a centimetre tall. Aroma of light earth, a touch of caramelised sugars and a tiny bit of yeast. Light-bodied; Strong nutty and earthy flavour with a touch of toffee and yeast and a lot of cardboard and bland musty malt flavours - nothing too special. Aftertaste shows more cardboard, a lot of yeast and some sweetness from caramel and that’s about it. Overall, a pretty subdued beer without much flavour at all, and what is there is pale malt and cardboard with perhaps a bit of toffee and caramelised sugars. I sampled this 33 cL bottle purchased from Jason’s Market Place at Taipei 101 in Taipei, Taiwan on 26-July-2017 for NT$40 sampled in my hotel room a few hours later on 26-July-2017.

330 ml. bottle sampled @ home. Brought back for from Portugal earlier last year (I actually forgot that I had this one). BBF 07/2016. No idea where this one fits in their range. Clear dark industrial text-book amber with a quickly gone tanned, light mocha head. Nose carries this weird herbal sticky insecticide note, heavy cloying ginseng & chamomile tea, unpleasant & very sticky. Taste is this very weird old candy, cardboard, ginseng, cloying very nasty industrial, hugely plastic sticky fruits, stale dusty ice tea, more dust… Plastic, honey, soda-like body, oily, rather watery,… I abhor sticky industrial lagers of this variety, their cloying nature really brings out the worst in them. Cloying in the worst way, shows some wear. I can see people liking but these notes are like a bad caricature for me. This is cloying in taste & a bit watery in mouth-feel on top, yikes.