Carlsberg Ice

33 cL bottle, 1999 vintage. Pours clear and golden orange with a fully gone head. Aroma is dense wineous and oldis. Dramatic change from the original fully clean and towards watery aroma and flavour. Dense malty and fruity oxidised. A bit flat into the finish. Way too oxidised but better than I remember the original.

Aarhus, DK. Bottled. Abscence of any character. High carbonation - would prefer water

Yellow with a white head. Grainy taste, Weak watery palate. Corn flavor - very sweet. Glad I never bought this myself!

Bottle. Yellow colour, small short head. Thin aroma of malt. Weak clear and crisp flavour of malt and some grains.

Bottled on a hot summers day. Light in appearance, aroma and flavor. Very drinkable, but not specially good for a summer ale.

Aroma seems minimal but does warm up to give caramel. Taste is similar though some grassy hops present, harsh carbonation kills it really.

In spite of it´s 5% alcohol, it does´nt really taste like anything but water. Good for thirst and not much else.

Just how do you rate a zero percentile. Well you don’t need to lie, for starters, and honesty, though it is harsh, is the best policy. Let’s keep this at ’0’. Poured a bright, yellowy gold, lightly carbed, big bubbled, with a flaccid, soapy white head. Aroma is of carnival fairy floss dowsed in heated, liquid butter. MMM, mmm, rub your tummy, scrumptious!! Buttery and candi sweet in the mouth too. Just slips and slides along the palate coating it with a film it took two bottles of Carlsberg Royal Stout to clean. Soft and prickly otherwise, chemical, very feint stale hop in back - more for prolonged life (?) than flavour, obviously - and just a touch of grain peaking through the layers of diacetyl nastiness in the rather heavy swallow. Drainpour, this was nasty. And by the rest of the ratings I can’t say I had a bad sample. (5.6% ABV, BBE 12/06, Brewed under license in Selangor, Malaysia, tasted at the Changi Airport, Singapore)