Bottle. Aroma of light grass and corn. Pale brassy gold color with a smidgin of white head. Starts with grassiness, a very light amount of malt towards the finish, and in the end there is some grassy bitter. Very clean. Very light. Something of a pilsener light.

bottle - Pours clear yellow with a thin head. It smells like corn, some mild malt, and some kind of aroma that’s just off. There are definitely some adjuncts in this sweet, light flavored beer and while it doesn’t quite taste like nothing, I wish it did. It tastes like ass. Well I’ve never actually tasted ass, but if I had, it would probably taste a lot like this beer. I should have drain poured it. It’s not alcohol abuse when the beverage has already been so thoroughly abused by the brewery.

Yeasty aroma. Light color and bitter yeast to the taste. Peppery finish with maybe a hint of molasses. Rather disgusting and poorly made.

Bottle 0,5l. Pale golden coloured. A rapidly disappearing white head. Sourish aroma. A watery sweet malty flavor. Very one-dimensional. Hardly any bitterness.

330ml bottle sampled at a drinking session in Tromsø. Pale golden body with a filmy layer. A malty touch in aroma. Flavour is little more than sugar water added hints of corn. Thin bodied and lively carbonation (18.04.2007).

33 cL botle. Pours clear yellow with a white head. Aroma is corn and bitterhops. Flavour has the same in a rather boring mix with malt notes. Plain bitter finish.

Canned (brewed by Bombay Breweries, a part of UB.) Pale yellow. Ricey alcohol aroma. Sweet with rounded mouthfeel. There’s sugar cardboard and rice pudding. The sweetness hides some of the alcohol. No bitterness. Not good in anyway but perhaps above average as far as Indian beers go.

OK, Kingfisher lager from New York. Green 12 oz bottle with a twist off cap. When I bought this bottle at my local beer store, in my ignorance I thought I was getting an import. Oh well, lets go for it. When I pop the cap I am surprised there is no skunk aroma, just clean uncooked bread dough aroma with an ever so slight hint of citrus. If I didn’t know better, I would think this almost has the aroma of a floral/fruity big ale beer. You know they say with green bottles you quite often get the skunk. This beer is a little darker than your ubiquitous pale yellow american lager and it does have a little haze to it. No head but there is a girdle of white around the top of the brew against the inside edge of the glass. Very nice streams of carbonation rising within, makes this an attractive looking drink. The bubbles almost look champagne like in appearance. Slight bitter hops greet the tongue but not like the oppressiveness associated with big brews or IPA but it is IPA-ish in taste. This beer calls itself the world best Indian Lager and that it has a pleasantly bitter taste. I’m curious of what Indian lager means, is it the same vein as IPA? This has much more personality than the typical pale lager, I’m not sure how it can even be rated in the same style as pale lager. The bitterness is pleasant but may not be appreciated by gentle lager lovers. It seems to have much more of an alky content than what is stated on this site. I still say this is more like a weaker big ale than a lager. I think it may even be more offensive than a pilsner. Nice medium low carbonation on the back of the palate. Tho during tasting this beer comes across with much more personality than a pale lager, the finish is not too offensive nor lingering. There is some bitter medicinal qualities that last but nothing a gentleman can not deal with. Decent beer overall and perhaps a stepping stone for those who want to try beers with more impact than your wonted lager.

330 ml bottle, courtesy of Cardinal pub, Stavanger. ABV is 4.5%. Brewed and bottled by Blossom Industries, India (trade mark owner: United Breweries, Bangalore). Imported to Norway by ITG. Golden colour, moderate head. Flowery aromatic hops, maybe some citrus too. Standard pale lager flavour without any offensive sidenotes, rather fizzy but with tolerable hops for the style. I’ll admit that my expectations were very low, but for an Indian pale lager this one is not too bad. At least it will be a tolerable accompaniment with your curry.

Bottle. Golden colour with a white head. Aroma is fruit, malt. Flavour is sweet, fruit, apple, hint of hop.