Cobra Beer
Commercial Brewery
in
Burton upon Trent,
Staffordshire,
England 🏴
Owned by
Molson Coors
Established in 1989
Contact
137 High Street, Burton upon Trent, DE14 1JZ, England
Description
Founded by Karan Bilmoria in 1989. The beer was initially brewed at Mysore Breweries in India but, from 1996, was brewed under contract in the UK by Charles Wells. The company went into administration in 2009 and the business was acquired by a joint venture company owned 50.1% by Molson Coors and 49.9% by Karan Bilmoria. Since then the majority of the beer has been brewed at Molson Coors UK’s Burton brewery but the company also has production facilities in Patna, India.
4.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 4
Flavor 4
Texture 6
Overall 4
Flaske. Pours straw yellow, with a nice and creamy finger thick head. Not very much aroma here, but some light spicy hops comes through. Flavour is citrusy bitter, with lemony hops and a light zesty twist. Nice as a thirst quencher with Indian food, but at most mediocre in all other manners.
Tried
on 02 Apr 2013
at 12:43
4.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 3
Texture 6
Overall 3
Pale golden, no head. Its lager aroma is close to the original but the taste is clearly lacking.
Tried
on 11 Mar 2013
at 12:57
5.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 4
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Bottled. Golden colour with a white head with short duration. Aroma is light yeasty and malty. Flavor is light sweet, cookies and citrus are present, yeast notes.
Tried
from Bottle
on 02 Mar 2013
at 08:52
4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 4
Flavor 4
Texture 4
Overall 3
Bottle from Boars Head World Buffet; sand pour with white head, smells like cereal tastes like artificial sweetener, some lager characteristics.
Tried
from Bottle
on 24 Feb 2013
at 09:50
4.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 4
Flavor 3
Texture 6
Overall 2.5
10th June 2012
Clear pale gold beer, little white head. Light dry palate. Crisp lagerish malt. Sweet artificial orange. Dry finish. That’s it! Pants!
Clear pale gold beer, little white head. Light dry palate. Crisp lagerish malt. Sweet artificial orange. Dry finish. That’s it! Pants!
Tried
on 24 Feb 2013
at 06:38
2.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 2
Flavor 2
Texture 4
Overall 1.5
330ml bottle. Clear golden colour with average, frothy, half-way lasting, minimally lacing, white head. Muggy, bready, corn aroma. Taste is monotonously sweet, corn flakes. Ugly.
Tried
from Bottle
on 17 Feb 2013
at 07:50
4.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 4
Flavor 5
Texture 4
Overall 4
(bottle) pale gold pour with white light/medium head. Aroma/taste is very plain malt, corn and cardboard taste typical of massed produced lagers. As others have said almost seems acceptable with a hot curry and that’s how I had mine, but in the cold light of day this is a decidedly below average brew.
Tried
from Bottle
on 11 Jan 2013
at 12:48
4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 4
Flavor 3
Texture 6
Overall 3
Bottle. Pours fizzy, clear pale golden with quickly vanishing white head. Clear aroma of hops with a cardboard note in the long nose. Sourish onset, replaced by bitter taste of hop. Very richly carbonated. Dry aftertaste. Perhaps a good refresher on an Indian summer’s day, but not any remarkably good beer.
Tried
from Bottle
on 09 Jan 2013
at 09:09
4.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 4
Flavor 4
Texture 6
Overall 4
(Bottle at some Indian restaurant in Camden, London, 21 Nov 2012) Pale golden colour with brief, white head. Malty nose with notes of grain, cereal and white bread. Malty taste with white bread, cereal, grain, vegetables and a faint hint of hops in the finish. Medium body, with a certain malt sweetness. Quite bland and boring.
Tried
from Bottle
on 05 Jan 2013
at 11:23
4.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 4
Flavor 4
Texture 4
Overall 4.5
bright golden colour, OK white head; lager-like aroma; taste of artificial (maybe metallic?) bitterness, with some sweet aftertaste, low carbonation; nothing special; one of the worst value for money rate; strongly not recommended for this price (almost 1.5EUR/0.33l in a supermarket!!!)
Tried
on 31 Dec 2012
at 07:08