Gurkha Beer

Brewed by Hepworth
Style: Pale Lager
Horsham, England

Bottle. It pours a rather pale golden body. The head is large-bubbled and small, white color. Grainy, malty and lightly fruity aroma, almost honey-like, not that that makes it much better, it’s still boring and below mediocre. Thin, somehow sweetish mouthfeel with flavors of pale malt, grains, some sugar and honey, and a fruity touch. Maybe some honey here as well. Short, fruity and grainy finish with little or none bitterness. Boring. Boring. Unoffensive. The flavor isn’t bad though, quite quenching and refreshing, but utterly boring and lacking bitterness. (080404)

Bottle (from Beers of the World - apparently Nepal is now in Sussex). Sweet honey and barley malt aroma. Golden yellow color with small head - mild effervescence. Nice - a big like a lager/ale mix.

660ml bottle at the Swan Hotel, Hythe. Amber with a thin white head; sweet corn syrup aroma; quite full bodied, clean and slightly sweet but with good bitterness, and a dry finish. Better than I expected.

£4 660ml bottle in a Nepalese restaurant. Seems I’ve been had a bit here. Soft, wheaty and impressively lacy. Grainily malty snout. Clean, crisp and slightly rubbery. Cereally afters. All malt and no hops. Forgettable but inoffensive Asian lager. From Sussex.

Much better than Cobra, went down well with the nepalese food don’t know what these others are on about...

Rubbish. This just tastes like Carling put in a silly bottle with some Indian on the front. Sherpa is a really poor lager - I have nothing more to say about it. I did mark it up a couple of percentiles as the bottle was so rubbish, it made me and ruprecht laugh!

This is propably the most generic beer you can find from Nepal. Every country has one, this must be theirs. Nothing bad with it, yet nothing to remember.

Bottled. Golden, almost copper colour, small white head. Aroma is British hops, malts and quite much floweryness. Flavour is sweet malts with hoppy filling finish.