5.4

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 5.5

Bottle from Drankenhandel Leiden. Aroma is corn with cereal and soft citrussy hops. Flavour is light to moderate sweet and light bitter. Watery body. Not a bad 'island lager', pretty good for the style.

4.5

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 3 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 6

Bottle 0,33ltr: Clear golden coloured brew with an crisp refreshing taste with some little dry bitterness, some very light hints of corn. So Mexico have Corona and Sol, the Netherlands have Biri.

5.8

Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6

A small taste from a friend (bottle) @ Veikkola. Pours very pale yellow with a low head. Aroma is slightly fruity malts. Flavor is clean slightly fruity malts with some hops. Meh.

2.6

Appearance - 3 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 3 | Overall - 10

Õlle on selline jook, et iga uus kord kui klaasi või pudeli suule tõstad, siis leiad midagi uut, sõltuvalt tuhandest-miljonist pisiasjast, mis hetke olukorda mõjutavad. Seega piirdun iga õlle juures selle tekstiga.

4.4

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 3.5 | Flavor - 4.5 | Texture - 2 | Overall - 5.5

'Tropical lager' seemingly inspired by Mexican lagers (which I guess fall under the tropical lager 'category' in general), boasting corn as its ingredient (because it "increases drinkability") and coming from a cheap, colourless longneck bottle. This is about the last association I would make with 't IJ, who pioneered the Dutch beer revolution in the eighties, but this is 2023, of course... Snow white, moussy, thick but regular, even-bubbled, gradually opening and eventually dissolving head on a crystal clear, pale straw blonde beer with yellowish tinge and lively visible sparkling. Weak and simple aroma of indeed cooked corn and the water from a can of corn, DSM (overcooked broccoli), raw cereals but thinly so, minerals, very faint note of diluted lemon juice, the dry residue of magnesium-rich soda water, damp kitchen cloth. Neutral onset, some minerally notes as in soda water but nothing else, moving straight to a thin, grainy and indeed corn-sweetish middle, feeling quite watery with those prickly, minerally effects of the carbonation being more entertaining than anything else - because there is hardly any other flavour to be found here, apart from a faint rubbery note in the finish and, all the way at the back in a very superficial, thin and diluted way, a brief touch of grassy hops, hardly providing any bitterness at all (only lightly palpable on the root of the tongue after swallowing, in a hop powder-like way). This dull, 'whiney' corn flavour and the sharply stinging carbonation are the only two main elements here - there is almost nothing else. Even for a tropical lager, this is staggeringly inoffensive and devoid of flavour, doing emptiness and wateriness almost better than its likely source of inspiration (Corona Extra). I had very few beers with less flavour than this - clearly the pioneering days of 't IJ are very, very far behind us now. Oh yes, before I forget: after downing the whole bottle, and only minutes after it, I get a brief and shallow glimpse of that citrusy element the label promises. Maybe I should have just jammed a slice of lemon into the bottleneck at the start...

4.5

Appearance - 2 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 5

Lichtgeel helder bier met weinig schuim. Smaak is licht bitter met iets van geroosterd brood. Er waterig en licht van smaak. Valt me erg tegen.

5.4

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 5.5

33cl bottle from Albert Heijn Duinenwater supermarket in Knokke. F: thin, white, not long lasting. C: pale gold, clear. A: malty, grainy, bit bready, corny, hay. T: medium malty base, sweet grainy, bit bready, corny, straw, weak bitterness, medium carbonation, nothing special here.

5.9

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

Bottle at home, golden beer, small head. Aroma is grain, malt, dusty. Taste is the same, sweet, bitter, grainy. co2 is fizzy and has a drying mouthfeel. ok

5

Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 5

Bottle from Albert Heijn. Clear pale golden, quickly thinning, white head. Aroma of corn syrup, barley, yeast, toasted white bread, apple peel, hay. Taste has sweet maltiness of barley, corn syrup, white bread, hay & yeast, low in fruitiness, ending dry, grassy hoppy & grainy. Light to medium body, slick texture, average carbonation. Not an industrial Lager but still ordinary.

3

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