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Carlsberg Elephant 2.21 652

Carlsberg Elephant

Percentile
8
overall
Brewed by Carlsberg Brewery
Style: European Strong Lager
Copenhagen, Denmark

bottled
common

on tap
available

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RatingsAverageScoreABVStyle PctlServe in
6522.21/5.02.21/5.07.2%20.5Lager glass
Commercial Description:
Pasteurised strong lager.
First brewed in 1959. Sold in a 330ml bottle in 1989 as "the beer you will never forget". In May 1996 Elephant Beer was repackaged into an emerald green 275ml bottle.
UK version is brewed at the Carlsberg Northampton brewery.
Carlsberg Elephant Beer is an amber-coloured beer with big intensity in its aroma, and with a distinct maltyness. There is notes of honey in the aroma. The palate of Carlsberg Elephant shows a good balance between a good body from the alcohol, and a discrete sweetness which is tamed by the sophisticated bitterness of the aftertaste.
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 KimJohansen (7135), Copenhagen V, Denmark
2.5 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
4/103/55/103/510/20
Feb 13, 2008  
Clear golden with meidum white head. Sweet malty aroma with fruity notes. Flavor is sweet with slight malty notes and a bitter end.


 MrStitch (138), Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
1.9 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
3/102/55/102/57/20
Feb 1, 2008  
Bottle. Pour not so much of an amber as it is a clouded gold small white head. Aroma is sweet and malty but there is a smell of alcohol as well. Taste is ok... dry, sweet, slight taste of the malt you smell, and the taste of alcohol. It goes down easy enough but I won’t be running out to get more.


 Haslinger (666), Syracuse, New York, USA
1.7 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
3/102/54/103/55/20
Jan 29, 2008  
Not too bad has a good bit of kick. Not too bad easy to drink but isn’t as good as Carlsberg, wouldn’t buy again.


 IlanMan (847), Appleton, Wisconsin, USA
1.6 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
3/102/53/102/56/20
Jan 28, 2008  
More alcohol with more of a bite than Carlsberg lager. Still can be a drinkable beer that isn’t terrible but still lacks on taste. Nice for a grill out. Would probably buy again for certain occassions.


 BelgianBeerGal (1309), Sabbatical in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
1.7 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
3/104/53/102/55/20
Jan 28, 2008    Updated: Aug 4, 2009
My bottle says malt liquor on the front (most likely due to odd Americna labeling requirements) but also has the "Elephant." Light gold colour with a big fluffy white head. Simple aroma, rather sweet with only a hint of hops. Flavour dominated by rough alcohol and not much else.


 OleR (2106), Oslo, Norway
2.1 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
4/103/54/102/58/20
Jan 26, 2008  
Not so fancy as I remember it from my (...) teenage beer experiences. Shiny deep golden color. Minor near-white head. Unfresh hops and sweetish malts in the aroma. Semi-dry taste with a low malt level and some light resiny hops. Light sour on the palate. Does not impress, but goes well down though.


 johndoughty (2168), cheslyn hay, West Midlands, England
3.8 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/105/58/104/514/20
Jan 22, 2008  
Golden and very clear. Slightly sweet but overall quite well balanced. Doesn’t have that cheap over sweet taste that many European Strong Lagers have. I was surprisingly impressed by this one.


 ha1ag (423), Maastricht, Netherlands
2 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
4/102/55/102/57/20
Jan 20, 2008  
Bottled (Tnx Totte!) Light golden color, small quickly vanishing head. Smells like hay. Alcohol overdomintes in this one. Some hops in flavour but alcohol strikes very much .



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