Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 3 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
Beer has a milky foamy head and a black body, little bubble coming up too. Aroma is just some scent of cardboard and alcohol, with a little hint of milk it would seem. Flavour is very smooth and crisp taste, milkiness as the bottle mentions. Great for quaffing but lacking in complexity. Overall a good stout with a unique milk flavour that doesn’t seem forced.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 3.5
Bottle, from Offy in Sandton, Joburg. Poured clear golden with a fading white head. Unremarkable malty aroma. Flavour slightly sweet with some muted hop and a bit of a metallic edge. Saw a huge billboard declaring this had won some gold medal at a Brussels beer awards or suchlike. Really can’t see why. This is average at best.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
500ml Bottle from an Off Licence, Sandton, Joburg. Poured black with a dissipating tan head. Aroma was chocolate and sweet malt with a hint of licorice. Flavour was a touch sweet, with more roasty notes and chocolate. A tad unrefined but passable and probably one of the better easily obtainable brews in SA.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 4
Bottled. A golden beer with a lazing beige head. The aroma is sweet with notes of malt and straw. the flavor is sweet malty combined with metallic notes of hops and some corn, leading to a metallic finish. Thanks Papsoe for sharing.
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 4
Bottle 340ml. @ [ Ulfborg Tasting ].[ Courtesy of Maria ]. Clear medium yellow orange color with a small to average, frothy, fair lacing, mostly diminishing, off-white to white head. Aroma is light to moderate malty, grain, toasted, toffee, light to moderate hoppy, resin spicy. Flavor is light to moderate sweet and light bitter with a average duration. Body is light to medium, texture is watery, carbonation is soft. [20081202]
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5
Can 440ml. @ [ Ulfborg Tasting ].[ Courtesy of Maria ]. Clear medium yellow orange color with a average to large, frothy, good lacing, mostly lasting, white head. Aroma is moderate malty, toasted, sugar, light notes of cabbage water and corn, light hoppy, grass. Flavor is moderate to heavy sweet and light bitter with a average duration. Body is medium to light, texture is watery to oily, carbonation is soft. [20081202]
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5
Can 30cl. @ [ Ulfborg Tasting ].[ Courtesy of Maria ]. Clear medium yellow color with a average, frothy to creamy, good lacing, mostly lasting, off-white head. Aroma is moderate malty, hay, toasted, light to moderate hoppy, grass. Flavor is moderate to heavy sweet and light to moderate bitter with a average duration. Body is medium to light, texture is watery to oily, carbonation is soft. [20081202]
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 4.5
Golden yellow with a decent, but fast disappearing white head, consisting of rather big foam bubbles. Fresh malts, some cereal and pronounced hops. Refreshing lager.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 3 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 3.5
Clear golden with a medium white head. Aroma was sweet and malty with yeasty and caramel notes. Flavour sweeet with malty and cardboard notes.
SHIG (13882) reviewed Castle Lager from SAB - South African Breweries 17 years ago
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5
Bottle: Poured a golden carbonated color with a bubbly head. Aroma is sweet and malt. Taste is metalic with malt and hops. Leaves a acidic finish.