Manav Karma Beer

Brewed by Manav Breweries
Style: Pale Lager
Ghaziabad, India

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

clear golden, thin white head, light sweet malt aroma and flavor, touch of hops, light bitterness

Aroma: 4/10; Appearance: 5/10; Flavor: 3/10; Palate: 5/10; Overall: 6/20
Rating: 1.9/5.0
Drinkability: 7/10
Score: 4

12 oz bottle-pours a dissipating white head and straw yellow color. Aroma is faint herbal, paper. Taste is grain, chemical/herbal hops. Mild/minimum carbonation. Thanks stevo for sharing.

Pours a clear, lightly effervescent golden with a nicely-lacing, thin white head. Dry, hay and grassy aroma with a touch of grainy malt and rice. Body starts with a little biting carbonation and not much else. A hint of bittersweetness, but overall very bland and uninteresting.

Very pale straw colour with a thick but fast-fading white head. Fairly malty aroma with a soft pale malt sweetness and a light dusty bitterness. Lightly herbal with a touch of breadiness as well. There is a nice floral hoppiness as well. It’s really not a bad beer as well... sort of a malty pils. It’s working pretty well with my chicken curry.

I’ll share the commercial description so that it may be enjoyed by more than me:
Crisp clear and refreshing, Karma beer is made from the virgin malt and German hops in pristine spring water of Himalayan divinity.
This pale lager is a divinely pale yellow with a thin, sustained creamy head. The aroma is slightly skunked, although some sweet malt and herbal hops eke their way out. Very soft in the mouth, one could forget that it was there at all was it not for the inspired flavor - that being - a grassy sweetness with some earthy bitterness. Not too bad, but I’m happy to have only one bottle, albeit a large one.

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Well let’s see if this can come close to the Commercial Description. Light straw color with a taller near foamy egg-white looking head. Light pale malt and a touch of floral hops, with a hint of chalk. The more this warms the more sickeningly sweet this smells with a stale honey sort od scent. A heavy pale lager flavor mixed with a touch of cheap vodka comes to mind after the first swizzle. Big bubbled carbonation hits the tongue and disrupts the feel. Lots of "cheap" sweetness going on. Some light sorghum, corn syrup and wild honey flavors. Maybe its the fact that virgin malt is sooo sweet. I need to stop while I’m ahead.

Nice aroma of hay and noble hop. Bright gold color with a decent white head. Near medium body with fizzy/creamy carbonation. Flavor is a bit light. Pale malt arguably balanced by noble hop. The finish is dry, even lightly astringent, and there is detectable hop that builds a bit. A light, clean, arguably crisp, arguably refreshing lager. It drinks pretty well. Heads above the macro lagers brewed in the USA.

Poured a clear pale gold with effervescent bubbles and a thin white head. Very grainy aroma. Swwet, tart and malty. Malty and clean. Not terribly offensive. Very short flavor. Thin body finishes watery.