Tuesday, 13 April 2010

• Samuel Smith's Alpine Lager

  
  
  To the Samuel Smith brewery in England for this review! I've had a few Samuel Smith beers, and they were all good.

  
  
  This beer is a Euro Pale Lager, not much different from an American adjunct lager save for the fact it doesn't have any skunky adjuncts in it, which in and of itself is nice. That said, This has been the first beer from Samuel Smith's that I have been totally unimpressed with.
  
  Pour: Pale yellow color with no head whatsoever, even attempting with a vigorous pour. Unfortunate.
  
  Smell: Hardly anything there. Some pale malts, no hops. No skunky stench, but just nothing there.
  
  Taste: Very, very bland. Almost like drinking carbonated water. Not disgusting and skunky like say Bud Light, and maybe a very faint pale malt character. No hops at all.
  
  Mouthfeel: Thin with active carbonation. No body, no substance.
  
  Drinkability: Hard to get down due to overpowering carbonation and no flavor to speak of.
  
  Final Notes: For the price of this beer, I would have expected something better. As it is, this is just one small step above crappy American macrobrew beer. It's a D beer probably, but for the ridiculously high price it fetches on the market, I'm dropping the grade down to an F. If you want something like this (a very tame lager), try Red Stripe (which actually isn't offensive at all - and rates about a C as far as I'm concerned, and is much cheaper).
  
  Sorry Samuel Smith Brewery, this beer is a total flop.
  
  Are there any beers you've had recently that are a flop?

  

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