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Castle Lager

Castle Lager

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A Pale Lager brewed by
South African Breweries (SABMiller)

Sandton, South Africa

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3252.04/5.02.05/5.05%54.2Dimpled mug, English pint, Lager glass, Shaker P  Stats

Commercial Description:
First brewed in 1889.
Ingredients: Barley malt; Maize; hops.

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 patricks110 (193), Alberta, Canada
2.2 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
4/101/55/102/510/20

Aug 8, 2008  
Can. Bland and plain gold body with a good sized head. Hoppy and grassy aroma. Light bodied with hints of grass, citrus and hops. Slight aftertaste.

 oldrtybastrd (1793), Morlautern, Germany/Great Falls, Montana, USA
2.3 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
4/102/55/103/59/20
Oct 19, 2008  
Shared this one w/ SkyCop32. Picked up at Maruhn Getränke in Darmstadt. Pours a pale golden yellow color with a fizzy white head. Aromas of hops, grass, and grains. Flavor is a kinda sweet, watery body, nice crisp hoppy/grain taste with a nice clean finish.


 JonnyDr (128), , South Yorkshire, England
1.8 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
3/102/54/102/57/20
Sep 29, 2008  
Pale yellow lager. Pours with short lasting frothy head. Hops, grain, corn and slight malty touch. Plain.


 espenra (158), Oslo, Norway
2.7 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
5/103/55/103/511/20
Sep 25, 2008  
33cl bottle. It poured a very pale yellow colour with a medium white soapy head that settled down very fast in the glass, only leaving a thin white head. It has a grassy aroma that also smells of malts. The flavour is bitter and tastes of malts and water. It has a short aftertaste Just another pale lager.


 zach8270 (1470), Henrietta, New York, USA
2.3 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
5/102/55/102/59/20
Sep 14, 2008  
(bottle - 340 ml) Clear yellow pour with a thin white head. Aroma is very grassy and hoppy with some good dry notes and a bit of sweetness to it. Flavor is sweet at the start with some notes of dry grass, hops, metallic hints, and some sweetness again at the end. Watery but refreshing.


 sirPino (625), Zawiercie / Żywiec, Poland
2.2 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
3/102/53/102/512/20
Sep 12, 2008  
<b>No 561</b><br /> <b>Rated: 08.09.2008</b><br /> <b>Bottle brown, 330 ml</b><br /> <b>Appearance: </b>Pours yellow, perfectly clear body with moderate saturation and carbonation, head is snowy white, frothy, initially medium, slowly decreasing to small, regular in structure, grainy, with quite nice lacing<br /> <b>Aroma: </b>Very chalky, grainy, slightly reminding Pilsener, reduced in hoppyness, thin, quite light, notes of cereal grain, well balanced and brewed as aroma suggest but still with additives characteristic for a Pale Lager beer.<br /> <b>Flavour: </b>Rather poor, sour from brewing cereal but on the other hand surprisingly noble hoppy profile that makes it really positve and refreshing. Very unusual confrontation of deterior quality grains that make this beer maybe not bad but rather not worth any gratification and on the other hand noble truffle like, aromatic hoppy. Finish duration is moderate.<br /> <b>Palate: </b>Finish feel is slightly chalky, slightly astringent, grainy, sour, dusty, rich in sensation, body is light, texture is wattery, carbonation on palate is moderate.<br />



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