Okocim Mocne

Brewed by Carlsberg Polska
Style: European Strong Lager
Warszawa, Poland

vegetal aroma, stinky cabbages and booze, or possibly someone who has comsumed those things and is not excreting it through their pores or orifices. appearance is translucent gold with good carb. flavor is extremely pale with late hit of booze. oh, what a joy is okocim malt liquor!

Bottle 500ml. @ home.
[ Courtesy of Ole ]. Clear light grey amber color with a average, frothy, good lacing, mostly diminishing, white to off-white head. Aroma is light moderate malty, grain, apple, light caramel, vegetable notes. Flavor is moderate sweet and bitter with a average duration. Body is light medium, texture is watery to oily, carbonation is soft, finish feel is light alcoholic. [20091018]

Bottle. Pours yellow with a fizzy white head that is gone almost instantly. Aroma is very light with faint notes of grain and grass. Flavour is fairly light also but has hints of malt, corn and sugars. Almost no bitterness to speak of. It is drinkable but there’s not a lot to recommend it.

Taster at DØE, Aarhus Syd, DK. Bottled, 200909. Amber with white head. Aroma is weak of malt. Flavor is malt, corn and a hint of alcohol.

Bronze. Bubbly white head. Malt, alcohol, corn, some hops in the aroma. Same flavor. Like a stronger version of American macro lagers with more hop character and a bit of warming alcohol. Medium/light body and plenty of carbonation.

500ml can. Not much aroma. Pale amber colour with a strong head. Very malty with some hoppy bitterness that does not quite mask the high alcohol content, would do better with less alcohol. Slightly overcarbonated. Warm palate with lingering hoppiness. I guess it’s okay, but not worth buying twice with so many better balanced beers on the market.

500ml can (Carrefour, Warsaw)
Clear orange, brief head. Aroma somewhere between non-descript and not very good. Palate fizzy and a bit watery. Some weird swimming-pool water in the retronasals. Slightly sugary, candifloss or toffee. Malts a big mess, clearly made of something like malt but clearly messed up. Hops likewise. Sticky, bitter, drying, and resiny - but not in a good way. More like a I-just-face-planted-a-random-tree-and-bit-a-branch of way. And that tree was growing near a highway, so it’s coated with pollution from cars. And being Polish, we’re right next to an old industrial park, so it’s probably coated with byproducts of the paint industry. And that’s how my tongue feels. Thanks Okocim! Now, where’s my tongue scraper?

smell is light but smells like crackers or those cadbury cookies that are half biscuit half chocolate.. p nice! its yellow with a lastiing head, it tastes very just indistinctly beery, crackery, white bready, malty sweet overall, the alcohol comes through fairly strong especially in the mouthfeel. totally inoffensive but not ballless and i can feel the buzz beginning after only a few sips.. p good