Lhasa Beer

Brewed by Lhasa Brewery (Carlsberg)
Style: Pale Lager
Lhasa, Tibet

Bottle courtesy of bu11zeye. Clear light yellow. Subtle hint of butter. Warm and a bit of salt. Bland taste with a feeling of dove soap. Better than lifebuoy I suppose. Soft.

12 oz. Bottle thanks to bu11zeye. Yellow in color with a small white head. Aroma is of flowers, citrus, light malt and grain. Taste is of light citrus and malt.

Pours golden with a spritzy head job. An average beer for this style but not a good beer by any measure.

[Sampled at Tashi restaurent in Lhasa with Anne Maj.] Tasting beer in the height of 3700 meters in these holy circumstances makes your karma more than good, lets say it’s close to nirvana of the BeerBuddha! Try it and you’ll return with praise.

Bottle thanks to bu11zeye. Tick tick tibet. Nose and taste are dominated by wonder bread white bread with hints of sourdough as well. Beer from the roof of the world? Back to the cellar.

Bottle. Sckly pale yellow color, clear with a medium sized pure white head. Aroma is typical pale lager with notes of grass and wheat and some lemon. Overly bitter tang to the flavor, not hop smooth but dry medicine tablet like. Unpleasant.

Pale, and I mean pale color with no head. The smell is almost sweet, almost hearty (like pasta). It is almost like they forgot what they were going for. Flavor is not there, and palate, lets just say room temperature water is more intense. But hell, its beer from Tibet!

8/25/09 from 12oz bottle, Export only recipe; the American, and not Carlsberg owned variety. Aroma is sweet bready malt forward with a substantial Saaz floral background that produces a smooth/spicy blend. Appearance is clear yellow with a moderate maintained white head. Flavor is very even between malt and hop flavors, with a lot of earthy flavors, both from noble bittering and a light grainy starchiness. There’s a light mineral note which is balanced by equally light sweetness that is more grain-sugary than caramel in character. Bittering is moderate. Mouthfeel is light/moderate bodied, which may not sound like much, but is noticeably fuller than other Asian lagers. Carbonation is also lower than in other Asian lagers, giving this a much smoother texture. Overall a fuller-flavored Asian brew that has flavor differences that set it apart from both German inspirations and local counterparts.