BEER REVIEW: Swan Mid
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Reviewed by:  allovate on 2005-11-03 | ||||
| Colour: 2.00 | Aroma: 2.00 | Taste: 1.00 | Drinkability: 2.00 | Total: 1.75 |
| Comments: Another dreadful ’mass-market’ swill to add to the many beers I will hopefully never encounter again. Tasted from the bottle into a tall stein. Clear medium gold body with a decent looking (albeit artificial), big fluffy white head that remained for the length and left rings down the glass. Raspy and biting, grassy hop nose with hints of honey and egg yolks. In the mouth the hops were in full force, raspy, acrid, sour and bitter, completely unbalancing this light bodied lager. Quite watery, otherwise, with lightly biting carbonation not at all helping things. Slight hint of malt and corn upfront with a general plastic flavour and feel mid-palate, before a reasonably bitter finish that saw the flavour of hop leaves linger in the mouth between swallows. Not one for me! (375mL, BBE 09/05) | ||||
Reviewed by:  ikm on 2008-08-01 | ||||
| Colour: 3.00 | Aroma: 2.00 | Taste: 2.00 | Drinkability: 3.00 | Total: 2.50 |