Phuket Lager Beer

Brewed by San Miguel Thailand
Style: Pale Lager
Banmai, Mueang, Pathum Thani Province, Thailand

Clear yellow pour with a ring of white lace on top. Unpleasant aroma and flavor of skunk and sweet adjuncts. The palate is light and watery.

Bottled, BB 9/25/07 (kinda surprised they give a 1yr freshness horizon here). Poured a clear, somewhat bright golden with rising carbonation and a dusting of white head. Aroma was of sweet, bready pale malts and a pinch of lemon.. nothing offensive.. smelled refreshing. Flavor was of light, sweet bready malts, again with a hint of citrus... Lighter-bodied w/ some sour and grainy notes on the palate. Nothing wrong with this, but nothing to make me go back.

The best thing about this beer I found, was the label. Nice to have in Patong but there are better options.

Initial skunkiness blows off quickly leaving a fairly hopped aroma. Clear golden body is topped by a decent white head that recedes to ring. Mildly sweet flavour has some notes of creamed corn and a light but refreshing offsetting bitterness. Light body with medium carbonation. Green bottle sampled with beerbuzzmontreal, cathschlag, MartinT, Olivier_MTL, Siroy and Yowie.

Clear yellow body without much head. Aroma is a bit skunky, like an old stella artois or something. Watery body with a typical macro taste of cereals without hops. This is Corona and friends quality. Phucket, F*ck it.

Bottle, somewhat dark, golden pour, quick head. some grain, watery, nothing too bad about it, decent to drink, just very boring, would welcome it as beer though, if I was in Thailand! Pretty cool that it has the website embossed on the glass! lol.

Bottle from Trader Joe’s. Pours a clear medium golden color. Sweet skunked aroma with a little malt and grains. Flavor is grainy and a little sour. I’ve had worse pale lagers.

For a pale lager, this wasn’t horrible. It was drinkable with the homemade pizza I baked. An aroma of yeast, malts, grass and a little skunk but not really bad. Perhaps I got a fresh bottle? Appearance was clear and piss yellow with a nice white head (typical of a pale lager). Mouthfeel was light and evervescent. Flavors were also on the lighter side of things, with a lttle malt, a little hops and not much else. To rate with other lagers, it’s not bad. But on the overall scheme of things it’s not all that tasty.