Amarit NB

Brewed by San Miguel Thailand
Style: Pilsener
Banmai, Mueang, Pathum Thani Province, Thailand

Golden colour. Aroma mixes grassy hops, acetaldehyde and light alcohol. Aahhh, the taste of Thailand. Bland international lager, tasting mainly of faint pale malts and late alcohol, with only the slightest suggestion of hop.

3 other beers are put here as a Amarit beer. After some reserch and what I recall from my own travels to Thailand it is the same beer all the way! Just different label. The version I best know is under the name "NB Natural Brewed Special Lager", the label slightly different than the one showed here. The first one I tried was back in September 1997. Bottle. Weak golden colour, ok malty aroma, goes down good with a nice clean smooth taste to it. Served cooled.

Golden color with a fizzy off-white head. Musty malt and caramel aromas. A bit of earth and wood as well in the nose. Stale malt, rust and bits of salt in the flavors. Watery feel.

Bottle. Poured light pale color with an average frothy white head that diminished slowly with fair lacing. Light grassy aroma. Light body with a thin texture and soft texture. Light sweet flavor with a light sweet finish of short duration. Worth trying once.

A golden lager with a thin white head. Aroma is light sweet and corny, very mineral. In mouth, a perfume sweet beer with light metallic hops, very short in mouth. Cloying. Bottle from Piscator,MLCC.

Head is initially average sized, frothy, white, mostly diminishing. Body is clear medium yellow. Aroma is lightly malty (grain), lightly hoppy (herbs). Flavor is lightly sweet. Finish is lightly bitter. Light to medium body, watery texture, lively carbonation. Starts out like lightly sugared water...the bitterness doesn’t arrive on the scene until well into the finish.

No corn aroma; light grassy, hoppy aroma (very light). Clean smell. Clear light gold color with a white head that left quickly. It was vigorous as it poured though. Medium mouhtfeel. Not much taste. There is definitely some hop in the finish, and it probably qualifies as a pilsener. It has that dry finish. Could use a tad more hop. As often, though not always, a lager better than Bud.

Bottle, un-dated. Poured a very light, bright golden with a smort cap of white head... very lightly-suspended floaties in there. First impression from the aroma was "crappy & skunky Thai pale lager"... thankfully the skunk receded after a minute or so, and was replaced by some sweet malts and grass. Light, but fairly pleasant. I rather enjoyed the flavors... sweet pale malts, hints of lemongrass, and a faint floral bitterness coming through in the end. Carbonation was medium-high, and the brew was very lightly-bodied. Left some sticky corn remnance when it was all gone. This wasn’t exciting by any means, but certainly palatable.