Jelen Pivo
Apatinska Pivara in Apatin, West Bačka, Serbia 🇷🇸
Lager - Pale Regular|
Score
4.80
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Jelen Pivo is the leading core lager brand in Serbia-Montenegro. It is carefully brewed in Serbia’s leading brewery, Apatinska Pivara, in the town of Apatin, located on the Danube, in a most fertile area called Vojvodina, where the quality of the barley is known to be one of the best in the region. Jelen Pivo (5 ABV) is enjoyed in cans, bottles, Q-Pack bottles, and kegs, and is within hand’s reach of all beer lovers in the country. 11.85°
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5.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 8
Overall 6
Special bottle edition, I never even poured it in the glass. Dominantly malty, but not unpleasant, hops in the background. Typical bitterish-malty. Very drinkable, light lingering hoppy finish. Drank it very quickly, not bad.
Tried
from Bottle
on 26 Apr 2016
at 08:07
5.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 4
Pours clear golden color with medium white head. Typical lager smell. Thin body with high carbonation. Watery texture. Not really sure what to say about this one. It’s your usual lager. Taste is slightly bitter while aroma is somewhat lost due to the watery nature of this beer. It lacks definition, so to say. However, I wouldn’t mind drinking this as a quick refreshment during summer. Smooth and refreshing despite being a bit boring and generic.
Tried
on 02 Mar 2016
at 12:06
4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 4
Flavor 3
Texture 4
Overall 4
Standard pale lager from a 33 cl bottle claiming it contains 5% ABV and having been brewed at Trebjesa (property of SAB Miller) in Montenegro; either this beer should be updated, or I have a slightly different version, but since I cannot be sure of either and the label is the same, I’m going for this one. Medium thick, only very lightly lacing, fairly stable, off-white head over a cristal clear and pure golden blonde beer with no visible fizz. Unexpectedly strongish aroma of sourdough, damp kitchen towels, old and moist newspapers, green apple peel without its refreshing effect, iron, rotting garden weeds, stale sweat, soggy corn. Sourish grains and sweetish corn in the onset, strong carbo with minerally and souring effect (the latter reinforcing the graininess), light and supple, metallic yet oily mouthfeel, while the grainy sourishness and corny sweetishness continue with the first being prevalent over the latter; finish is neutral, with only a very faint and brief amount of simple grassy hops added, but low bitterness, so that the play of dull sourishness and dull sweetishness can go on, fading to nothing after a few moments, though I can still taste a light grassy bitterness of the hops all the way in the end. Light metallic and minerally effects linger too. Feels very industrial and the sweet-and-sour graininess bothers me from the beginning onwards; clearly a macro pale lager of low class, probably not the absolute worst one I ever had in this style, but certainly not among the better ones either. Poured most of it down the drain.
Tried
from Bottle
on 22 Jan 2016
at 18:42
5.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 5
500 ml bottle, best before 09/10/15. English label says "Lager Beer with Caramel coloring." Is that so? Yet it pours as straw pale as any Lite. Still, it looks alright for a light lager, with its sudsy head and all. Slight skunk and oxidation is bearable. Taste was going all right as a bowling alley beer at the start, then took a detour with a mouthful of sugar. Slight note of noble hop pepper saves this being a wreck. If I were near the brewery, I’d sure try this fresh. I guess even though the label says "Montenegro," looks like RB will count this as my first Serbian beer instead. The things I do to keep up with the former Soviet and Yugoslav republics.
Tried
from Bottle
on 28 Dec 2015
at 23:38
2.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 3
Flavor 2
Texture 2
Overall 2
500ml can into shaker. Very faint metallic nose. Crystal clear amber beer with thin solid white head. Medium carbonation. Harshly carbonated on tasting. Strong herby, earthy taste which dominates everything. Pretty unpleasant. Eventually a little bubblegum sweetness is noticeable but it doesn’t last, the taste of dirt soon returns.
Tried
from Can
on 20 Dec 2015
at 01:04
4.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 4
Flavor 4
Texture 6
Overall 4.5
0.5l can from a coop in basel. pours a clear pale golden with a frothy white head and some chunky lacing. aroma of corn. flavour of grass, corn, vegetables, citrus peel. slighly astringent and bitter.
Tried
from Can
on 03 Dec 2015
at 19:35