Heineken Lager Beer
Bottle poured into a traditional American pint glass. Appearance: Pours a transparent, crisp-looking golden body with a one-finger foamy white head w/ average retention and nice sheets and pockets of lacing. Aroma: Faint and lightly spicy, with a sweet, creamed corn aroma and practically no hop notes. Taste: Sweet - very sweet, even - with that very extracty taste, a muted but noticeable amount of hop bitterness, and even some leafy graininess. Creamed corn, and lots of other simple, honey-like sweet notes, but not unpleasant. Mouthfeel: Medium bodied, uneven, with a moderate amount of carbonation. Maybe even a little thick for the style, and it leaves a bit of a cloying mouthfilm. Drinkability: This is the beer to go to in a non-beer restaurant, as it's always the "quality" import on their beer menus. However, even these types of places are trending towards better beer, and most have either one solid local or at least Sierra Nevada PA or SA's Boston Lager. This is one I haven't had now in over a year (since getting in to "good" beer), and it's sort of amazing how bad I find it now, compared to what I think I USED to think of it, heh. That being said, it's not undrinkable - the abv% is low, and while the cornyness/extract-like tastes and aromas are sort of offputting, they're not unbearable.