Himalayan Blue Premium Lager
Yuksom Breweries in Malli Bazar, Sikkim, India 🇮🇳
Lager - Pale Regular|
Score
5.41
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Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6.5
650 mL brown bottle. The aroma is unusual. Musty, floral hop? Peppery hop? Standard gold color with a white head that filmed quickly. Thin to medium in body with mild, approaching creamy, carbonation. The flavor is outstanding. The mouth tingles with pepper or spice. Not hot, but a non-bitter hop, I’m surmising. It’s got enough floral to satisfy a light ale drinker. Spicy, peppery hop can be found in English lagers, so mayhap this represents a lingering tradition from colonial days. Sikkim has only been part of India since about 1975. Whatever, it’s not the typical lager drain pour. Hoisting this one to the Empire.
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 3 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 5
Blond color. Strange aroma: purely bread, grains. Simple taste, with a light malty sweetness, and light hopping, not enough. Anyway, equilibrated. Easy, but can be drunk.
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 3 | Flavor - 3 | Texture - 2 | Overall - 1
Pale straw color and small head. Ricey aroma with only a hint of spicy hops. Flavor is rather weak, ricey, and lacking any malt character, at least it has a hop tingle and finish, giving it some degree of balance.