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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
6482.21/5.02.21/5.07.2%20.2Lager 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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 scotty (832), Scotland
1.5 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
2/102/53/102/56/20
Apr 26, 2006    Updated: Apr 29, 2006
An unpleasant overly sweet unbalanced lager, I thought this might be better than Special brew, but I was wrong...rubbish! G&A Melrose...granted it was a few years ago but my experience of it then didn’t compel me to try it again!


 chriso (4796), London, Greater London, England
1.9 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
4/103/53/102/57/20
Apr 18, 2006  
Can, RBESG pub crawl, August 2005. Not sure why Kook rushed over to the shop opposite Olbaren to buy a can of this stuff, but I had to give it a go. Sweet, obvious alcohol, adjuncty. Definite wino material. Strangely, I didn’t find it as horrible as I expected. Perhaps I have wino tendencies.


 TChrome (1299), Bedford, Texas, USA
2.4 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
4/102/56/102/510/20
Apr 13, 2006  
Beer pours a dark, sickly golden urine color with a well retained egg white head. Aroma is predominantely hoppy with a bit of rotting corn underneath and skunky. I must be a sick individual, because I like malt liquors. Flavor of corn and some hops. Strong corn flavor. This beer is making my face frown, but I still like it for some reason. Not too bad.


 GreatLibations (1444), Last Supper, Arizona, USA
1.9 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
1/101/51/101/515/20
Apr 12, 2006    Updated: Jul 30, 2008
Pours pale with big froth and has residual effers. Aroma is skunky. Flavors are on the semisweet side of the spectrum with a salted citrusy character. The finish is slightly bitter.


 radagast83 (1302), Fairfax, Virginia, USA
1.7 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
4/102/54/102/55/20
Apr 8, 2006  
Bottle. High alcohol content. Not that good, just like any other cheap malt liquor.


Oycpff (93), USA
2.4 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
4/103/54/103/510/20
Mar 29, 2006  
Bottle: poured yellow with decent head. Aroma and taste dominated by alchol with light hop taste but frankly closer to malt liqour


 Nejhleader (930), Lemoyne, Pennsylvania, USA
2.4 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
4/103/55/104/58/20
Mar 29, 2006  
Had a sort of grain taste to it, slight skunky aroma and taste. At least it seemed pretty smooth. Reminds me of something you’d get in a 40oz, but this was a bit better.


 Crash (448), Macomb, Illinois, USA
1.5 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
2/104/53/102/54/20
Mar 28, 2006  
Pours yellow-orange with good lacing. Aroma and taste were both skunky. Not a good beer overall.



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