Holsten Premium Bier

Brewed by Holsten-Brauerei (Carlsberg)
Style: Premium Lager
Hamburg, Germany

Bottle. 5%. This was just OK to me. Clear, goldy-yellow colour with a quick, airy white foam. Smell is a little vicious, but taste is grainy, quiite smooth, with light carbonation.

Poured an regrettably urine-coloured clear yellow, accompanied by a creamy white head which produced some rather nice lacing. Aroma was quite floral, and the taste was markedly bitter.

Bottle, Pavement Cafe, Chernivtsi, Ukraine. Pale gold with nothing in the nose. Seriously heavy carbonation. Before I’ve taken a sip I’m wishing I’d just had a soft drink, but here goes nothing...Yep, slightly grainy flavour, typical lager characteristics. Not the worst, just crushingly boring. And that should be a crime really.

Decent clear yellow colour with the smallest ammount of unfilterd gunk, small white head that survives only as a skim. It has a nice sweet aroma of apples and malts with a light ammount of skunk - over all very appealing. There is a sharp bitterness when cold which is not overpowering, sour apples and seemingly better than average malts. Good solid taste throughout. Light bodied. The sides and bottom of my tongue got hit by good tanginess. There is a small ammount of sharp bitterness that has decent staying power. I like this stuff and it’s been on my regular rotation for years.

So this beer came in to position from some of my girlfriends friends, we invited them over for supper and they knew I liked the fancy beer, so they picked me up a sixer of Holsten Premium, oh ya SCORE!!!!!!!� “Brad they lady at the counter said this was the best, its there premium beer” Oh my fawking god nothing that say’s premium on it is worth drinking. This so called premium beer looks crystal clear and extremely light colored gold, almost no color at all with just the tiniest skiff of snow white head floated on top. And after this evening of drinking Holsten Premium and all the empty bottles where on the counter the kitchen smelt like there had just been a skunk orgy taking place, this crap stinks of skunky hops, and chemically produced malts. Taste is SKUNK with some bitter hops and some malty goodness, but there is a chemical taste in here and can’t figure out, bleach maybe?!?!?!? The after taste is a sickeningly sweet apple that lingers for days. This stuff is German swill shipped over to compete with are North American swill, but I have had worse."

330ml green bottle. Pale yellow pour, medium white head. Sweet malt flavor, light hops, very little bitterness. Smooth finish, very drinkable.

smells like.. cigarettes?? tastes like .. cigarettes... and hops.. jesus christ this smells like du maurier cigarettes and no i havent smoked in days.. i cant stress how wierd this is and pretty damn gross. colour is amber, mouthfeel is a slick macro so... is this defective? i dont want to drink liquid cigarettes this is disgusting

2,05 for a 330ml bottle at the SAQ in Québec’s imaginary country. Not my kind of beer but still easily drinkable and very refreshing. Low skunk taste, not much hop bitterness in taste and aftertaste. I had some displeasing notes of aftertaste but it is not a product I will destroy on this site, but I won’t buy it again either.