Aldi (Nord / Süd / Hofer)
Commissioner
in
Essen,
North Rhine-Westphalia,
Germany 🇩🇪
Associated Venue: Aldi (England)
Established in 1913
Subsidiaries
6.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
440ml can. Clear gold, small white head, modest retention. Aroma has a slight citrus with a wet standard pale malt. Some mild citrus and apricot with a light malt and pine that avoids that cardboard taste. Some decent bittering hops to be fair which helps give a crispness and has a light hop tingle in the finish. Light bodied, refreshing. Better .than I was expecting
Tried
from Can
on 02 Jan 2025
at 03:08
4.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 3
Texture 4
Overall 3.5
440ml can. Pours a cloudy yellow with white head. Aroma of light watermelon with hints of flora and white pepper. Taste isn't good - sweet confected watermelon, grains, toffee, slight astringent leafiness. Not very pleasant at all. Light bodied, fizzy carbonation.
Tried
from Can
on 02 Jan 2025
at 03:07
6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Green 330ml stub bottle at 4.7%. Clear gold with white head. Aroma of dusty and bready malts, lemon, hint of grass and black pepper. Taste of bread, light corn note, grass, lemon. Light to medium bodied, well carbonated, semi-dry. A crisp bitterness would work well here but its not labelled a pilsner. Not bad though.
Tried
from Bottle
on 02 Jan 2025
at 03:07
5.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 4
Overall 5
440ml can. Clear light gold with white foam and good retention. Aroma of cereals, some white bread dough, hint of stone fruits. Taste of sweet cereal and grainy malt, some soapy citrus, peach and grass. Somewhat cloying. Ok bitterness. More flavour than your standard supermarket lager but it's slightly off balance.
Tried
from Can
on 02 Jan 2025
at 03:07
5.8/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
330ml can. Even though it was likely to be crap, being so cheap I couldn't resist. Surprisingly I quite enjoyed it for what it is. Cheap ingredients but a nice fruity blackcurrant and good cider/lager balance makes it worth it. Pinkish red berry colour with thin white head. Fruity blackcurrant dominates the aroma with hint of grain but not getting much apple cider. Taste again has a sweet and light tart blackberry. The cider is more notable in the flavour with a slight drying apple peel. Light bodied but a certain slickness.
Tried
from Can
on 02 Jan 2025
at 03:07
5.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
330ml can at 59p. Misted yellow-gold with some small white foamed spots. Aroma of light stewed apple and sugars. Taste of bramley apple with hint of that pastry. A bit one dimensional. Quite sweet and sugary with a modest tang. Didn't mind this, I've had a lot worse.
Tried
from Can
on 02 Jan 2025
at 03:07
5.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 5
500ml bottle. Crystal clear dark gold with light white head. Quite a malty cereal and toasted grain aroma with very light fusty hop. Taste is malty as per aroma with some modest corn syrup, grass and black pepper. Some bitterness and moderate crisp finish. One of those lagers that isn't terrible but is so middling its instantly forgettable.
Tried
from Bottle
on 02 Jan 2025
at 03:07
5.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
660ml bottle. Clear gold with spotted white head. Standard grain and corn malt character on the nose. Taste starts the same but there is a light citric character and reasonable grassy bitter bite. Light to mid bodied, well carbonated as standard. Its ok for the style.
Tried
from Bottle
on 02 Jan 2025
at 03:07
6.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
750ml bottle. Pours gold with decent white head. Aroma is full of bread, banana, spice, mixed dried citrus. Taste is quite sweet and malty with spice and a lemon hint. Pleasant although a little thin. Slick body with a slight sticky note near the finish. Decent value.
Tried
from Bottle
on 02 Jan 2025
at 03:07
5.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
330ml can at 59p. A cloudy peach coloured pour with brief fizz. Aroma has a pleasant if slightly confected fruity peach. Taste again is very sweet tinned peach, semi-drying finish with fruity tang. Maybe a hint of apple peel although might be imagining it. Not getting much pudding dough element. Cheap alco-pop in character so can't give a 3+ but quite tasty.
Tried
from Can
on 02 Jan 2025
at 03:07