Can 0,5ltr: Clear golden colored brew with an pretty sweet taste with some hidden bitternesh, hints are sweet candy, caramel and other fruitiness.

Can 0,5ltr: Clear golden colored brew with an medium sweet bitter taste and some hints of caramel.

The 'Euro strong lager' edition of Aldi's Hopvil, also produced by Martens in Limburg; can from the Aldi supermarket in Sint-Denijs-Westrem (Ghent). Thick, foamy, densely moussey, firm and closed, off-white, busily cobweb-lacing head on a crystal clear, pure golden blonde robe with slight 'old gold' tinge and one single string of fine-bubbled sparkling in the middle. Aroma of molten granulated sugar, sugared rice, industrial honey, sweet corn, some iron (stronger when warming up), plaster, apple flavouring produced by a chemical factory, some banana even, cheap white rum and even cheaper wodka, acryl, warm cotton cloth. Sweet onset in a very monodimensional way - granulated sugar and nothing else, with medium carb and slick, slender body, even a bit on the watery side for a beer of this strength. Sweetish grainy core of clearly inferior quality, severely eroded by candi sugar syrup, feeling 'empty' and light, with added sugars given the questionable task of filling up the whole thing, a task at which they miserably fail; no flavours develop here, everything remains stuck in this monotonous, grainy plus sugary 'discours', flanked by slight metallic edges. Only in the very end something does change, and that is not hops (even if a very faint grassy note is there if you want to make the effort of looking for it) but of course alcohol, even though I must admit that this time it does not harshly scorch away the little flavours that are there, but only warms, relatively gently even for this particular - abonimable - class of beer. Wodka-like, somewhat astringent alcohol nevertheless lingers, of course, even adding some 'fake' bitterness which in this case is believably supported by a frugal dash of hops - but by that time none of the very few flavours that were around at the start, are still standing. Feels very barren and empty, simplistic and industrial, but I must admit that in this specific genre of consistently horrible 'beers', this one is not the worst; it tastes like old Hopvil with added white sugar and alcohol, nothing more, nothing less. Indigestible and brutal to the educated beer palate as expected - and as usual in this 'style' - but admittedly perhaps just a tad less so than many of its congeners. Obvious drain pour, but less dramatically so than some of John Martin's finest "Finest" lagers, if I have to bring up that dreadful memory again.

Can looks right, but this is 4.2%. Gold, a cm of white head. Cheap smelling light bread, apple skin, some cardboard. But taste is a little cleaner than than, if sweet. Low, slightly spiced bitterness. Real industrial Eurolager.

Blik 50cl thuis. Agave, lemon, citrus, zoet, suikers, limonade, fruitig, grainy, maltig. (26-7-2024).

Can at Alcuida hotel, mallorca picked up from local supermarche. Last night of holiday. A clear golden yellow coloured pour with a loose white head. Aroma is spicy hop, grass, fennel, green liquorice, straw. Flavour is composed of thin dusty grains, chalky, dirty grains, stewed hop, mineral finish. Palate is thin chalky, spicy, mineral water, highish carbonation. Basic lager.