Carlsberg Lager

Brewed by Carlsberg Brewery
Style: Pale Lager
Copenhagen, Denmark

RB #1000, clearly a personal RB milestone. And this beer deserves to be amongst the first 1000 and it deserves this exact spot. Why? Well H.C. Andersen said "Herfra min verden går" (From here my world endeavours). This holds true for this exact beer and my beerworld as well. In the lack of diversity one "learns" to adapt and accept a beer like this as "what beer is". This isn’t bad, just the way Carlsberg over the years have excerted their attitude towards the Danish beerscene has been bad, they have improved. Their people are all talented brewers, they just happen to work in a company that has to sell in big quantities to sustain in a global market - therefore it becomes mainstream. But on a warm summerday this beer does exactly what it should and the product they produce is ALWAYS the same - fact. If one likes it or not is a point of opinion and not a question about fact.

Therefore this is my rating 1000, 999 beers before this that all have been one big adventure thanks to a lot of nice people and hopefully many more beers and nice ratebeerians to come. CHEERS!

Darn, I guess I have to rate the bloody beer:

33 cL can. Pours golden yellow with a huge chalk white and creamy head disappearing within the first 30 seconds but leaving some lacing. Corn and malty slight sweet aroma. Corn sweet flavoured. Mild bitterness into the finish. Straight forward lager. Solid

330 ml bottle - While I remember thoroughly enjoying this at KL Airport I can only put it down to heat and exhaustion I was suffering at time. Pale yellow with a quickly dying white head. Medium to high carbonation. Thin bodied. Low bitterness with a slightly grassy flavour.

Pale yellow in colour with low to medium carbonation and a thin white head. Light bodied with a slightly bitter mouthfeel and finish. Watery and average but great on a hot day!

Pale gold with a thin white head, no redeaming features to speak of - thin,tasteless and unmemorable, another bog standard beer.

[On tap, Copenhagen] Pale golden color, small white head, watery, weak taste--nothing special about it really. Only thing that really did stand out about it was the price, and that wasn’t in a good way. Another beer that I would generally only drink at parties.

This is ok, now that I’ve had other lagers that are better and have more hop smell, and more hope taste, I don’t like this anymore, not as much as I used to at least.

Had on Tap at Fado in Austin. Lightish gold, with little white head. A slightly malty, heavily yeasty smell, with an overly bready, yeasty taste that was overpowering towards the end of the beer. Smooth overall, but with a sweetish yeasty, maybe skunky aftertaste.

CAN. BOTTLE, TAP. Tried in Denmark last vacation. Nice yellow pale color, with mid white head, very refreshing flavor, good to hot days. Cerveja clara e refrescante.