Holsten Pils (UK)
Carlsberg Britvic in Northampton, Northamptonshire, England 🏴
Lager - Pale Regular|
Score
4.91
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ABV changed from 5.5% to 5.2% to 5%.
Production moved to Northampton in 2005. Holsten Pils is one of the most widely distributed premium packaged lagers in the UK on-trade sector.
Holsten is a pale blonde German Pilsner, with a sweet earthy, lemon aroma, hoppy malty flavour and a soft lingering finish. Holsten was first brewed by the Holsten Brewery in Northern Germany in 1953.
Since then it has expanded to many other markets, primarily in Europe, and today you can experience the great taste of Holsten Pils in many countries around the world.
Production moved to Northampton in 2005. Holsten Pils is one of the most widely distributed premium packaged lagers in the UK on-trade sector.
Holsten is a pale blonde German Pilsner, with a sweet earthy, lemon aroma, hoppy malty flavour and a soft lingering finish. Holsten was first brewed by the Holsten Brewery in Northern Germany in 1953.
Since then it has expanded to many other markets, primarily in Europe, and today you can experience the great taste of Holsten Pils in many countries around the world.
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4.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 4
Flavor 4
Texture 6
Overall 4
275ml bottle from a cheap shop. Medium white head. Clear golden pour. You get what you pay for but a tick is a tick.
Tried
from Bottle
on 08 May 2018
at 17:21
5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 4
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 5
275ml bottle from the Med, Cambridge. Light yellow with a little white head. Ammonia and lemon on the aroma with a fair bit of grain. There’s an off saccharin taste at first, followed by a genuinely tasty citrus flavour, then more of the saccharin. Long gluey finish. Sickly. Below average.
Tried
from Bottle
on 14 Nov 2016
at 15:39
6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
500ml can from the local offy. Clear yellow. Decent head. All you’d expect it to be, aroma, and taste wise. Pounded it down, whilst the missus turned her nose up, telling me how much it stinks. So I did the same with the next can. Probably won’t bother with a third, though...
Tried
from Can
on 10 Sep 2015
at 13:25
4.4/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 6
Flavor 5
Texture 2
Overall 3.5
English lager with Danish pedigree apparently, can from some nightshop in London. Medium thick, off-white, irregular head initially sustained by fiery fizz rising up through a deep ’old gold’ colour, clear beer, but dissipating after a relatively short while to almost nothing. Aroma of dry and sourish grains, apple peel, old cookies, iron, bread crust, touch of grass and something faintly chemical (glue). Expectedly spritzy in the mouth, grainy sourishness paired with a light bready, even somewhat biscuity barley sweetishness, thin body with a metallic ’zing’, late and brief, shy grassy hop bitterishness showing up somewhere in the finish but fading quickly, leaving the ending a bit watery, with a certain degree of chemical wryness, fortunately only mildly so. Bland, but I had worse lagers than this and it does qualify as a premium lager due to its somewhat higher barley malt content, visibly, aromatically and taste-wise.
Tried
from Can
on 14 Aug 2015
at 07:02
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Enjoyed this by the can many a time - mostly recently at the Covent Garden Odeon, last night. This beer pours pale yellow (I’ve poured it before!) and has a quick, foamy white head. The nose is crispy cereal, light metal, pale bread. Light-medium sweet flavor with with lightly biscuity pale bread, some simple sugars, mild grain husk bitterness, some hay. Light bodied with average carbonation. Pretty crisp to finish with some further bitter grain notes, cereal and biscuits. Solid available-everywhere pale lager.
Tried
from Can
on 05 Feb 2015
at 12:18
4.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 4
Flavor 4
Texture 6
Overall 4
330ml bottle complimentary in the boardroom at Sutton Coldfield Town FC - Yellow, fizzy, clear with a nice white head. A bit syrupy in the mouthfeel, but that actually gives a boring lager something a bit extra. Not much, but it is there.
Tried
from Bottle
on 15 Nov 2014
at 12:17
4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 4
Flavor 3
Texture 4
Overall 3
440ml can from Scotmid. Pours clear yellow with a decent enough white head. Aromas of corn, cereal, dusty. Taste has an unpleasant industrial mouth-coating astringency. Watery and thin. Pretty bad.
Tried
from Can
on 29 Dec 2013
at 07:11
4.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 4
Texture 4
Overall 3
500ml can at home. Amber with a fading white head and heavy carbonation; grassy aroma; grassy taste with a touch of citrus, and a robust and unattractive malty body. Not exactly unpleasant, but not pleasurable either.
Tried
from Can
on 21 Aug 2013
at 04:50
5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 4
Overall 5
Bottle. Clear golden colour with a minimal and short duration white head. Aroma is cerealish, grassy and slightly hops. Flavor is light, crude cereal. Mild bittery in the final.
Tried
from Bottle
on 15 Jun 2013
at 23:52
4.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 4
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 3.5
Et friskt øl. Litt søtlig smak. Lite skum, lyst på farge. Et greit standard øl som passer til det meste.
Tried
on 15 Jun 2013
at 13:53