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

To be honest I don’t know how much of a difference there is between this and Cobra, I’d need to have them one after the other. This similarly hits the spot with a curry though, and that’s the important thing.

Cafe Saffron, Shrewsbury

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

Bottle from Tesco, Burnley. Pale gold with a thin head. Below par lager with an very ordinary malty aroma and taste.

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

330ml bottle from Beers of Europe. Feel a bit cheated with this one. I thought I was going to be drink a traditional Indian beer, but this beers is as authentic as you average UK curry. Having said al that is ok.

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

Big bottle from Tesco - blah, blah, blah, blah... it is lager, it isn’t a very good one at that. It was cheap.

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

670ml lager. Pours deep gold with a medium head. Aroma is sweet, grass and corn. Taste has sweet straw malt to start and a grassy finish.

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

Bottled@The George And Dragon, Toulouse (BB 03/2013)
Clear golden color, small white head. Light cardboardish aroma. Light to medium bodied. Cardboardish maltyness, low biterness although not too bad. Can go with food. As good as you can guess from the beer marketed as "original Indian recipe".

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 3 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6

This 670ml brown bottle was the first beer in one of my ’random beer tasting evenings’ (9th Sep 2011). Brewed using an old Indian recipe according to the labels on the bottle. Poured into a La Chouffe glass and two stemmed lager tulips: good golden lager looks, the usual snowy white cap that doesn’t last topped the beer off. The smells coming from the brew were of straw, with a few hops thrown in. The taste had a hop front, a really dry mouthfeel and less carbonisation than most lager/pilsners and I reckon it would accompany a curry very well. Not bad at all, but yet another addition to the already over-flowing UK Lager scene, they can’t all survive! New bit: I visited an Indian Curry House in Cambridge (Dec 2011) and found this on-tap: really enjoyed it, felt just right with the hot food quenching my thirst and keeping me cool, had to have two pints though!

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 4.5

670ml bottle from Tesco, Hastings. Well - it’s pretty obvious from the name what this is designed to compete with! It’s a typical curry houe beer, straw coloured with a billowing white head; corn syrup aroma; corn syrup flavour, sweet with a touch of gently bitter hops to finish. Designed to drink with spicy food, and there’s nothing wrong with that.

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 4.5

Bottle from Hughie passed to me at Merton Winter Beer Festival Feb 2011, consumed 27.03.11 Pours gold, slim white head. Aroma is sweet, bit corny. Harsh metallic edge, a bit like sucking the bottle top from this beer. Quite gassy causing a few lagery burps. Industrial flavour with very few redeeming features, bitterness even tastes wrong. Not my thing but thanks to Hughie anyway fro passing on a new rate. A5 A4 T4 P2 Ov9 2.4