Aldi (Nord / Süd / Hofer)
Commissioner
in
Essen,
North Rhine-Westphalia,
Germany 🇩🇪
Associated Venue: Aldi (England)
Established in 1913
Subsidiaries
6/10
Tried
from Can
on 02 Jun 2025
at 23:48
6/10
Tried
from Bottle
on 02 Jun 2025
at 23:47
5/10
Tried
from Bottle
on 02 Jun 2025
at 23:45
6.5/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 7
Overall 7
Had several cans at home. Pretty clean, easygoing, bit of pithy lemon and grapefruit, lean pale malts, light bitter straw. Fine overall.
Tried
from Can
on 02 Jun 2025
at 20:13
2/10
No citrus at all. You had one job...
Tried
from Can
on 31 May 2025
at 21:26
6.3/10
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Appearance 9
Aroma 6
Flavor 5.5
Texture 7
Overall 5.5
Can from Aldi. Hazy golden body with a thick off-white head that holds well. No visible carbonation. Good lacing. Aroma of peach and doughy malt. Flavour of peach and honey. Medium body with a chewy mouthfeel. Soft fizz. Sugary sweet and a bit cloying.
Tried
from Can
on 31 May 2025
at 09:20
6.5/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 6.5
Flavor 6.5
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Pleasant beige nitrogen head. Chocolate aroma with a hint of caramel. Dark brown, creamy, flat. Medium body, mild roasted and chocolate notes, acidity intertwined with caramel. Roasted finish with a herbal accent.
Tried
from Can
on 29 May 2025
at 15:11
2.1/10
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Appearance 5
Aroma 2
Flavor 2
Texture 2
Overall 1
Fairly new addition to the dreary beer selection of the Aldi supermarket chain - one created for them alone, very likely by Martens indeed, though this is not mentioned anywhere (not on my can anyway). Comes in both canned and bottled form and is seemingly a plain pale lager (Buval, I guess) heavily sugared and flavoured with extracts of lemon and agave - so, considering tequila is made from agave and often drunk with a wedge of lemon, this is Aldi's way of competing with that terrible Desperados, which for some reason still seems to enjoy widespread popularity. Thick, frothy, snow white, tightly cobweb-lacing, stable head on a crystal clear, pale 'metallic' platinum blonde robe with 'old golden' tinge and some disparate sparkling. Aroma of melting white sugar, aloe vera gel (this is the agave, I assume), lemon-scented hand soap, a whiff of honey, something - excusez le mot - 'fart-like' further on (oddly), dried glue, wet white paper, cheap industrial lemonade or lemonade candy. Sugary sweet in the mouth, very lemonade-like, cloying, with moderately strong sparkling adding some relieving minerality - but then the sugars returns in full force, sticking to everything that follows, which is not a lot: a slender malt-syrupy undertone perhaps but nothing really malty, and fake, added flavours from a plastic tube or something, indeed reminiscent of lemon and agave but both in the same way you would expect them to smell in bath soap or something alike. No natural lemon or agave is to be detected, of course, and especially the latter bothered me throughout with that 'hand gel'-like scent and flavour. Oddly, a bitterish note is present in the very end (almost after swallowing), but I dare not say it comes from hops - it feels very artificial and a bit 'chemical' and is likely derived from those horrible extracts. Artificial to the point where it becomes sad rather than funny, this one comes from the very bleakest regions of the realm of beer. It does not taste like beer, but it does not really taste like lemon or agave either - I never thought I would say this, but if that damn Desperados was the source of inspiration here (as it was for quite a series of similar products, think Salitos or Amigo), then this one does not even manage to reach the original's 'quality' level. Feels like someone took a cheap pale lager and poured both lemon- and agave-scented soap in it, along with a heap of granulated sugar. Need I say more?
Tried
on 28 May 2025
at 22:57
6.4/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 6.5
Flavor 6.5
Texture 6
Overall 6
Bottle from Aldi in Italy. Nice golden amber with moderate head. Lightly citrus nose. Flavor is flowery mandarine, lightly caramel maltiness. Not bad, decent bitterness character, quite drinkable.
Tried
from Bottle
on 27 May 2025
at 21:09
5.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6.5
Flavor 6
Texture 5
Overall 5.5
[44cl can from my local Aldi.] A cloudy straw coloured pour with a loose white head; peach aroma; peach taste with a biscuity grain body; then a rather sweet peach finish with a little bitterness.
Tried
from Can
from
Aldi (England)
on 23 May 2025
at 19:10