Manav India Special Reserve Beer

Brewed by Manav Breweries
Style: European Strong Lager
Ghaziabad, India

Date: 06/24/2006
Mode: Bottle
Source: Tasting

clear golden, thin white head, sweet corn aroma, some body, nice sweetness, lots of corn flavor, touch of hops in the finish

Aroma: 4/10; Appearance: 5/10; Flavor: 4/10; Palate: 6/10; Overall: 8/20
Rating: 2.2/5.0
Drinkability: 6/10
Score: *+/4

650 ml bottle at local Indian restaurant. Pale yellow with a fizzy white head. Sweet malty aroma and taste with not much else going on. Pretty good in the spectrum of Indian lagers I’ve head.

clear gold with a large fizzy white head. sweet honey lager aroma with a hint of hops. sweet lager flavor. pretty typical but this one isn’t syrupy like some strong lagers. o.k.

Appearance: Pours out a slightly hazy, straw-colored body with a frothy white head. Smell: Lightly floral, sweet aroma of grains and grass. Taste: First of all, there’s a delicate malt body supplemented by some faint grassy notes. Second of all, well, actually that’s all there was to this beer. Mouthfeel: Thin-bodied with a nice effervescent creaminess. Drinkability: As my pal AndoBrew put it, this one’s "absurdly drinkable." Some have accused me of jumping ship any time a brewery dangles a few more ABV percentage points or whacky ingredients in front of my face. This, of course, is not the case, friends! Even I can find some small pleasure in this gift from Ghaziabad, India.

Pale yellow lager, not too thin, a notch better than other Indian beers Imve had.

had this with shag in the atl. yellow pour. slight hop nose with this weird lemony flavor. but i’m also a ratings whore so there ya go.

With lack of new beer in my area and on a trip to Atlanta, the rating whore in me took over and I snatched this up for $1.50. It poured a yellow color with a large head. The flavor was rather crisp with some grassy and lemon notes showing. The aroma was somewhat floral with a hint of sweet corn coming through. Its passable for a strong lager.

330mL bottle. Golden color. Thin white head. Decent aroma. Smells like a familiar German Lager. Aroma of grain and hint of hop. Grainy malt sweetness. A detectable amount of hops. Crisp and refreshing. Unique taste. Much better than our standard American Lagers (sorry AB).