Lion Breweries - NZ

Commercial Brewery in Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand 🇳🇿
Owned by Kirin Brewery Company (Kirin Holdings)

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27 Napier St, Freemans Bay, Auckland, NZ-1011, New Zealand

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4.6/10 Appearance 4 Aroma 5 Flavor 5 Texture 4 Overall 4.5
Bottle. Nice head with good duration. Color is golden. Aroma and taste are malt, hops, grass and sugar.
Tried from Bottle on 12 Mar 2011 at 02:43

5/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 5 Flavor 5 Texture 4 Overall 5
330 ml bottle. Red to amber body with a diminishing white head. Weak aroma of grain and sweet malt. Flavor is like any other mass-produced industrial lager. Light grainy, some malt, weak caramel, kinda fruity and a weak metallic kind of bitterness. Thin body and short aftertaste.
Tried from Bottle on 09 Mar 2011 at 09:39

4.4/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 2 Flavor 5 Texture 4 Overall 5.5
Skunky smell. Clear amber, medium head. Honey and hay flavor, clean finish. Tame, but decent for a foreign lager, could use more hops.
Tried on 15 Jan 2011 at 05:07

4/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 5 Flavor 3 Texture 4 Overall 3
10th September 2006
Warning! Early amateur rating! Bottle in Raratonga. Very light and watery beer. A hint of citrus but just a poor beer.
Tried from Bottle on 01 Jan 2011 at 10:29

5.2/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 5 Flavor 5 Texture 6 Overall 5
9th September 2006
Warning! Early amateur rating! Bottle in Raratonga. Fairly full on lager. Rich malt and slightly bitter. Full bodied but overall nothing special.
Tried from Bottle on 01 Jan 2011 at 10:15

5.9/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 6 Flavor 6 Texture 6 Overall 5.5
11.15 ounce green bottle - wtf? - lightly hazy gold with a soapy head - smell of light honey, yeast and lightly skunky hops - damn you green bottle -damn you to hell! - lightly sweet up front, but dries out pretty fast - dusty yeast character - moderate bitterness - faint acidity - finishes a bit grassy and grainy - as with most pale lagers, it isn’t anything all that good, but certainly better than the overall score suggests - would probably be fairly good fresh.
Tried from Bottle on 08 Dec 2010 at 18:03

3/10 Appearance 4 Aroma 3 Flavor 2 Texture 4 Overall 3
330ml bottle carried back home from London. Dense, chalky head slowly fading over a golden body. Pale malts to the nose. Ditto taste with a papery dry touch. Lacking hops. Soft and sweet. Below par for the style (shared with Finn, Tromsø 27.10.2010).
Tried from Bottle on 02 Nov 2010 at 13:11

3.6/10 Appearance 4 Aroma 4 Flavor 3 Texture 4 Overall 3.5
Flaske 0,33l delt med Rune. Lys gylden. OK kremskum. Metallisk aroma. Lett på smak: Svakt fruktig men mest vann. Søtlig avslutning.
Tried on 02 Nov 2010 at 03:40

3.4/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 3 Flavor 3 Texture 2 Overall 3.5
Bottle. Poured piddle yellow with thick fast dissipating head. Very little lacing. Aroma is a little grassy hop, a little malt, a little skunk. Light bodied, malt flavour marred by greasiness. Malty finish would have been better without more greasiness. Maybe I’m drinking this in the wrong hemisphere
Tried from Bottle on 17 Oct 2010 at 21:30

5.4/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 5 Flavor 5 Texture 6 Overall 5.5
Clear golden with a small off white head. Aroma had toasted malt, caramel and hints of grassy hops. Flavor had toasted malt, caramel and hints of hops. Finished dry.
Tried on 06 Oct 2010 at 10:47