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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4.9
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 4.5

300ml can. Pours yellow with a thick white head. Sweet, grass, apricot, little acidity towards the end. Crisp, clean and pretty boring.

Tried from Can on 27 Jan 2017 at 02:51


5
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

330ml bottle. Clear, pale, golden, frothy white head. Little aroma, very crisp taste with slightly bitter finish. Ok

Tried from Bottle on 31 Dec 2016 at 13:25


5.8
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6

330ml bottle. Pale clear straw colour with a small white head, fairly good retention. Aroma: slightly sweet malt, grassy hops. Taste: sweetish malts, slightly fruity citrus hops, a light hoppy bitterness. Overall quite pleasant for a lager, clean, crisp, and wasn’t skunked. Medium carbonation, light body, thin texture, dryish finish. Yeah, not a bad lager at all.

Tried from Bottle on 09 Oct 2016 at 00:52


4
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 3 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 5

Can into glass. Clear amber beer with bubbly white head. A few tiny bubbles. Good body for 3.5%. Sweet malt taste, slightly vegetal finish. Super cheap NZ supermarket beer. Not horrible but really only for those who value price over quality.

Tried from Can on 16 Sep 2016 at 22:14


4.8
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 3 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5

Tall thin green can on a New Zealand Airline flight from London to Los Angeles on 25th April 2016. Typical lager/pilsner look, golden and bright with a fast fading white head. Very little aroma or taste, but refreshing and clean. A little more grain than hop in the brew flavour wise maybe and unoffenceive f a might boring.

Tried from Can on 26 Apr 2016 at 06:33


6.5
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6

Dorada muy clara con blanca espuma muy abundante. Rico aroma citrico y malteado. Muy ligera y suave, superbebible. Mantiene el buen tono del aroma, tirando algo a dulce. Media carbonatacion. Buena lager

Tried on 08 Jun 2015 at 12:09


7.5
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8

Bottle @ home shared with Thompson. Clear golden color, small to average sized white head. Smell and taste malts, quite crisp and clean, a slight grainy sweetness and a nice malt bitterness. I must say I just got home from an intensive workout so I was thirsty as hell. Anyway, I liked it.

Tried from Bottle on 19 Mar 2015 at 15:54


4.4
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 2.5

2 yuan for a 330ml not sure if it is this or not, mine was made in China but did have Motueka written on the side... can. It pours a light gold with a decent head and some soapy looking lacing. The nose is grainy & mentholated rub... Urgh. Thin bodied with cardboard, menthol, sugar and... Nothing terribly beer like. Yuck. ---Rated via Beer Buddy for iPhone

Tried from Can on 22 Dec 2014 at 09:12


3.8
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 3 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 2

Lounge beer, at the Air New Zealand business class lounge at LAX. Bottle. Crystal clear golden yellow color, fluffy white head. Aroma of peppery cardboard. Taste is bitter and papery. An inauspicious start to my NZ trip. At least it was free.

Tried from Bottle on 22 Aug 2014 at 05:34


3.8
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 3 | Flavor - 3 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 3

Flaske fra Gl. Strand Øllagerjuli-14: bryggeriet sier "one of the purest beers we can make, no additives, no preservatives etc...". My verdict: hardly any flavour or taste, just plain boring. NZ brewers have proved they can do a lot better than this.

Tried from Can on 06 Jul 2014 at 08:49