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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

Broad Distribution
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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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 AWS9 (232), Mississauga, Ontario, Canada
2.4 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
4/102/54/103/511/20
Aug 18, 2007  
On tap in Paris. Didn’t find it too different from regular Carlsberg. Tastes like a regular lager, could hardly tell it had more alcohol in it and was surprised when I found out. Largely thin with slight bitter aftertaste similar to it’s brother.


chrismwpcs (73), South Hedland, Australia
0.5 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
1/101/51/101/51/20
Aug 13, 2007  
In a word. Yuck! Too sweet, too metallic. Not recommended for human consumption. Called Elephant Beer because you will always remember how fucking horrible this shit is.


 Rynoplasty (546), Louisville, Kentucky, USA
3.5 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/103/58/103/515/20
Aug 12, 2007  
Pours a dark gold color with a fairly large wihte head that stays around for awhile. Aroma is sweet and malty and the taste is sweet and malty as well, a very underated beer, especially if you get the 2.99$ 4 packs of 16.9 oz tallboys. Can’t go wrong with that, very good for the Summer. Edit - I agree with others who said this beer grows on you as well. You can’t make an opinion of this on one beer. Drink a couple.


 yespr (12420), Copenhagen O, Denmark
3 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
5/103/57/103/512/20
Aug 7, 2007  
50 cL bottle. Pours golden yellow to orange with a quickly disappearing white head. Sweet malty aroma. Soft mouthfeel. Almost raisin sweet flavour. Nice sweet finish. Very well made but has to be served at max 10 C otherwise it gets cloying.


 Wim (1321), Turnhout, Belgium
2 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
4/103/54/103/56/20
Aug 3, 2007  
yellow sparkling body with a small white head a malty aroma a sweet malty taste with a average alcoholic finich


 AmazonMatt (285), Panama
1.4 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
3/102/53/101/55/20
Aug 2, 2007  
God I hate these European Strong Lagers. The malt is too sticky sweet and no crisp hops. It’s hot here in Panama, and you’d think that one of these lagers ice cold would at least quench your thirst. Wrong. But it probably the style, so I’ll try to keep that in mind.


 DrnkMcDermott (1865), Downers Grove, Illinois, USA
1.5 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
3/103/53/101/55/20
Jul 31, 2007  
300 ml green bottle, "Best Before 20712708." Again, why an elephant? As a reminder of Danish colonialism in Afric... wait, that’s Greenland. More fitting picture would be a skunk, that’s the first thing I smell. Then wet skunk once poured. Admittedly nice golden pils type color in a glass tumbler, with a scrummy malt liquor head. Taste of fizzy rubbing alcohol mixed with corn syrup. Just unpleasant. Mediciney finish. There are so many better 7% beers out there. Can any Danish raters offer a trade for their good stuff? All we get here is Carlsberg and Tuborg! Loose bottle from Sam’s Wines, Downers Grove.


 LordCorkscrew (984), Ronco Scrivia (GE), Italy
2 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
4/103/54/102/57/20
Jul 28, 2007    Updated: Jul 30, 2007
Strong Lager che sa di acqua in cui siano state sciacquate le chiavi di casa. Buona se vi chiamate Giorgio Abufboi; Per quanto riguarda l’elefante.... sembra che ci abbia cagato dentro. assaggiata al Britannia Pub, dal bicchiere altrui ;)



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