Carlsberg Britvic Holsten Pils (UK)

Holsten Pils (UK)

 

Carlsberg Britvic in Northampton, Northamptonshire, England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

  Lager - Pale Regular
Score
4.91
ABV: 5.0% IBU: - Ticks: 30
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.
 

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4/10 Appearance 4 Aroma 4 Flavor 4 Texture 4 Overall 4
Can 500ml.Clear medium orange yellow colour. Aroma is light to moderate malty, hay, pale malt. Flavour is moderate sweet and light bitter with a average duration, malty, fruit. Body is medium, texture is oily to watery, carbonation is soft. [20130120]
Tried from Can on 05 Apr 2013 at 07:00

4.5/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 4 Flavor 4 Texture 6 Overall 4
Ordinary but also passable lager which can feel a little dry in its character.
Tried from Can on 16 Mar 2013 at 14:17

3.6/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 3 Flavor 3 Texture 6 Overall 2.5
Can at ChrisO tasting, thanks to Ian, 30/12/12. Clear pale golden with a thin white dissinterested head. Nose is pale malt, grain, light fart. Taste follows with less of the fart - ie not much doing! Light medium in body, some spritz in the carb. Cack in a can!
Tried from Can on 06 Jan 2013 at 04:02

5.4/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 4 Flavor 5 Texture 6 Overall 6.5
Can at Chriso New Year 2012/13. clear gold lasting white head. has an aroma of not malt. some hop though. still ok drinkable. The corn is quite startling. some cardboard 2.1/5 re-rate. I drink about 8 cans of this a year so I must quite like it. It’s not as bad as some pale lagers commercially made, in fact there is a touch of lemon which is quite decent.
Tried from Can on 30 Dec 2012 at 12:06

4.9/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 3 Flavor 5 Texture 6 Overall 4.5
Jan 2007: Small brown 275ml bottle, 5.0%, brewed somewhere within the European Union for ’Carlsberg’. Looked good, crisp, clear, golden yellow with a head that was whiter than white (as the Daz adverts used to say). Do lagers smell of anything really? No, this one doesn’t either. Just a beery, yeasty, hoppy, malty, weak mix. Fairly dry in taste, I drank this while making a Beef Lasagne, this is a kitchen drink, not for serious supping. Can’t get excited about it, but it is not bad enough to slag off, all in all, a typical European fizzy lager.
Tried from Bottle on 07 May 2012 at 14:54

5.6/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 5 Flavor 6 Texture 6 Overall 5.5
Bottle at the Lochview Motel. Pours lemon with some head. The nose is mostly pale malt - like porridge oats in a way. The taste has more of the pale malt but with a citrus zing on the end. The palate has a light body, with a creamier than expected texture and a dry refreshing finish. Overall, this was better to go back to than I expected.
Tried from Bottle on 08 Jan 2012 at 11:41

3.9/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 4 Flavor 3 Texture 4 Overall 3.5
275ml bottle. Pours light golden with a medium head. Aroma is some grassy hops and some vegetables. Not much to taste, cooked veg, grass, corn in the finish.
Tried from Bottle on 06 Jan 2011 at 16:29

4.1/10 Appearance 4 Aroma 3 Flavor 5 Texture 4 Overall 4.5
[Bottle at the Hook & Tackle, Reading] 275ml bottle with yellow label at 5% ABV. 20 years ago, all UK pubs seemed to sell this, but now you rarely see it. I vaguely remembered it being one of the better mass-market lagers at the time. So... how does it taste nowadays? Well.. pours the usual gold with a small white head; soft carbonation. Slight sweet, grassy aroma. Dominant flavour is honey; there’s a slight bitterness in a muted, leafy finish, and an oddly cloying coating is left inside your mouth. It’s certainly a little different to the other mass-market lagers in that it actually has something of a distinctive flavour and character. It’s probably this fact that it’s not crisp and clean (ie not tasteless), combined with the dated-looking packaging, that has caused this lager to decline in popularity. For my part, I thought it was OK as lagers go, but with the sweetnes and cloying mouthfeel I’m not sure I would have wanted to drink much more of it.
Tried from Bottle on 02 Apr 2009 at 11:10

3.6/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 3 Flavor 3 Texture 4 Overall 3.5
330ml bottle. A standard Euro lager. Looks pleasant enough, but the sweet malt aroma and flavour and slightly dry finish hold few surprises. Dull.
Tried from Bottle on 23 Feb 2008 at 16:36

3.8/10 Appearance 4 Aroma 3 Flavor 4 Texture 4 Overall 4
Canned(500ml). -5.0%ABV
Pale golden coloured, almost no head, grainy nose. The aroma is malty, grainy and slight hoppy with some weak fruity notes. Bitter Finish.
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Tried from Can on 06 Jun 2007 at 03:58