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

Amber lager by a brewery in the Cook Islands, an independent island state in the South Pacific since 1965, referring to itself as a craft brewery - is there a place on earth where this 'craft beer' idea has not penetrated other than the Antarctic? Thanks tderoeck again for the country tick! Apparently producing a medium thick, snow white, open head when fresh, over a misty 'dark blonde', peachy robe, already brownish-tinged due to oxidation in my sample. Aroma of dried apricot and dried fig, palm sugar, lingonberries, bread crumbs. Oddly sourish onset, some basic peachy fruitiness, softly carbonated with thin body; sweetish cerealliness, apple juice-like effects on top due to oxidation while this sourish aspect continues, no bitterness worth mentioning. Smells better than it tastes, but obviously the precious sample - which someone at some point put in the kind of plastic tube one expects to find a urine sample in intended for medical purposes - was completely worn out, not just from the long and doubtlessly cumbersome voyage but also from having been opened multiple times by fellow country tickers. I can imagine this tasting quite nice even when opening a fresh bottle at a beach on the probably paradise-like island of Aitutaki, so by its sheer origins alone, this rather unpleasant sample managed to make me dream of a better place...

Appearance - 5 | Aroma - 3.5 | Flavor - 3.5 | Texture - 3 | Overall - 2.5

Sampled at Tim's place, huge thanks! Clear golden color, no head. Weird aroma of apple. Flavor has it too. Very odd. Like apple juice. Quite bizar, but what's to expect.

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

Fruchtiger, leicht säuerlicher Beginn, helles Malz, Apfel. Meh. 6/3/5/4//4

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Cook Islands #2, thanks Bruno V.!! Crazy beer to be able to try, this has turned a little bit is not bad.

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

You know what you get son…
New country
Otherwish quite standard pale lager
Malty and fruity
[Bottle shared by ChrisOfstad]

Country #162
Brewery #3038

Bottle, kindly shared by ChrisOfstad. Pretty standard lager, a bit on the fruity side perhaps. Nothing impressive, nothing foul. 646411 250509

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

Golden with a white head - Malt aroma - Malt body with some hints of bitterness - Malt finish - This was ok

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Thanks for this rarity, Sebastian D.!!!