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.

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4.4
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 3.5 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 5

Industrial pale lager made in the U.K. primarily for the many Indian restaurants there; strange I never rated this beer before, as in continental Europe too, it is a familiar sight on the menus of Indian restaurants (which is also where I sampled a bottle). Snow white, thickly moussy, stable, membrane-lacing head on a crystal clear pure and deep golden blonde beer. Aroma of wallpaper glue, unsweetened popcorn, breakfast cereals, vague notes of grass and iron, cotton cloth. Sweetish graininess in the mouth, clean with very fizzy, even numbing carbonation adding minerality; thin, smooth cereally middle with popcorn-like associations as well as a faint metallic edge. Does develop a bit of grassy bitterness in the finish, even more so than is averagely the case in standard pale lager, but it feels a tad ‘chemical’ too. Not the worst in this particular, broad segment for me, but it has only that bitterish touch to thank for it.

Tried on 14 Jan 2022 at 13:33


5.2
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 4

Appearance: clear gold with a large white creamy head of perfect retention. Aroma: faint grain, fruity hints. Taste: light sweet, light to medium bitter. Grain, wormwood and grass. Mouth feel: light to medium body, average to lively carbonation. Overall: nothing different.

Tried on 12 Jan 2022 at 12:18


6.8
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

75cl bottle @ Cafe Safron, Shrewsbury with the TMBB crew whilst waiting two hours for a curry. Pours clear gold, nice effervescence. Taste presents a nicely sparkling, clean refined lager character, really quite a lot more malt sweetness compared to draft, firm bitterness, nicely rounded. Decent.

Tried from Bottle on 26 Nov 2021 at 21:13


4.1
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 3.5

Numerous pints whilst waiting two hours for our curry at Cafe Safron, Shrewsbury. Clear gold. Lightly sweet lagery aroma. Thin bodied, and fairly light lager character.. coming across more 3.5% than the stated 4%, which is common practise for this brewery. Passable, but suited the occasion.

Tried on 26 Nov 2021 at 21:08


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Tried on 22 Jun 2021 at 17:07


2.9
Appearance - 3 | Aroma - 3 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 1 | Overall - 2.5

0,33 bottle.The bottle looks pretty good, it could be a soft drink. Normal white foam formed (it didn't last long), it has a corny, industrial-beer-like smell. Rice and corn help mass production in the Asian way. Fortunately, it had noticeable hops, the corny nauseating sweetness was suppressed by the hop bitterness, which is a good point. Simple industrial drinking beer, quite impersonal. The aftertaste was plastic, quite unpleasant. This bottle is English-made, I don't think there would be such laboratory conditions in India. I would be curious to see what it would be like if I bought one there in a "convenience store".
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Az üveg elég jól néz ki, mondjuk üdítő is lehetne benne.. Normális fehér hab képződött ( nem tartott sokáig), kukoricás, ipari-sör beütésű illata van. Ázsiai módra rizs és kukorica segíti a tömeggyártást. Komlót azért szerencsére kapott érezhetően, a kukoricás émelyítő édességet elnyomta a komlókeserű, ami jó pont. Egyszerű ipari ivósör, elég testetlen. Utóíze műanyagos, elég kellemetlen volt. Ez az üveg angol gyártmány, Indiában nem hiszem hogy annyira labor-körülmények lennének. Kíváncsi lennék ha ott vennék egyet egy "kisboltban", milyen lenne.

Tried from Bottle on 11 Jun 2021 at 16:34


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

330ml bottle: BB 31st Jan 2021. Drank at home on 19th May 2021. Clean and clear golden body, fast fading white head. Slight grainy nose and taste, mild bitter finish, OK for what it is.

Tried from Bottle on 19 May 2021 at 16:49


4.1
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 3 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 4.5

Kicsi, gyorsan eltűnő hab, világos borostyán szín.Tipikus nagyipari, kissé édeskés, lágeres illat. Lágeres, picit édeskés, leheletnyit fűszeres ízvilág. Könnyű, lágy, enyhén szénsavas, enyhén keserű. Tipikus nagyipari láger.

Tried on 14 Dec 2020 at 16:05


3.5
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 3 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 3

Bottle @ Mother India, Kristiansand. Clear, pale, straw golden body with a white head. Weak aroma, some grain and hint of sweet worth. Not much flavor in taste either, sweet corn, white bread low to almost no bitterness. Thin body and short aftertaste. Not all bad, kind of doing the trick when drinking to hot and spicy curry dishes, but so do also water.

Tried from Bottle on 17 Nov 2020 at 14:31


7
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7

Bottle from Beers of Europe, Special Thanks to mr Jacek Wigier (wineofdreams@gmail.com) Piana spora trwala jest koronka, jedno z lepszych nisko czy calkowicie bezalkoholowych piw, jest wyrazne w smaku z chmielnym smakiem i posmakiem, pijalne, z grawerowana buteleczka, no wiadomo nie jest to z Indii, ale za to mamy jakosc brytyjska niz egzotyczna. Zaskakujace. tego sie nie spodziewalem bije na glowe wszelkie Heinekeny, Warsteinery i tego typu bezalkoholowe piwka.

Tried from Bottle on 31 Oct 2020 at 17:44