Kingfisher Strong

Brewed by United Breweries (Scottish & Newcastle)
Style: Malt Liquor
Bangalore, India

Pretty weak for a strong beer. Not much aroma, not much happening in the mouth, the taste is very weak... a bit hops and malts, maybe some distant apple. The colour is bronze, hardly any head - I guess the problem here is bad glasses, everyone drinks straight from the bottle here. I bought this because I wanted some taste, more than the standard tasteless indian lagers, but not a bulls eye. At least it’s a little better though.

Smells of metal and alcohol. I really can’t pick up anything else. Really airy head that dissipates quickly and the colour is that off-urine yellow that you really don’t want in a beer. Tastes a bit of hops with a slightly bitter aftertaste. Slightly syrupy. Mouthfeel is just average. Overall it’s a pretty weak "strong" lager no matter what the occasion.

650 mL in Himachal Pradesh. Pours a clear, gold with a one finger, fluffy white, temporay head. Leaves no lacing. Aroma is sugary, sweet corn, cereal grain, incerated plastic, and vinegar. Taste is as above with the addition of some artificial fruity esters. Again, these Indian beers have so much gylcerin added to keep them from skunking but the effect is that they are syrupy, artificial, chemical, plasticy, and gross.

Bottled. High alcohol content. Little crude, Yellow body, White head. Stronger than traditional lager

Yellow colored with little white head. Basic malt liquor aroma with sweet fruits and mild alcohol, clean one but rather dull. Medium bodied. Flavor is similar: clean with mild alcohol, which lasts in aftertaste.

Pours a thin straw like gold. Aroma is a bit hoppy, malt. Very sugary. Tastes very sweet, a bit too sweet. Kind of artificial vanilla flavours. Tastes like a cheap beer made to have a high alcohol content as its main attraction.

33 cL can, courtesy of MadsBerg/Papsoe. Pours slight cloudy orange with a fully gone head. Aroma is grainy and slight cornish. Sweet malty, light fruity and syrupy sweet caramelish. Ends sweet.

Bottle, pouring a pale gold with a thin head. A strong medicinal aroma with that 7.2% clearly coming through. A full mouthfull, with plenty of carbonation as well. A sweet and malty flavour, the alcohol doesn’t seem to be as strong in the mouth.