Ratings: 373 | Reviews: 193 | Display Reviews Only: Reviews by Hoolihan:2.5/5 rDev -3.1%Hoolihan, Feb 19, 2012More User Reviews:3.5/5 rDev +35.7%look: 3.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5Appearance  Light yellow with a tinge of orange and some active carbonation. The head frothed up pretty well and went down slowly, leaving a bit of lacing.
Notes: The bottle states "Slow brewed for the Connoisseur". Does this mean anything? Is this the Indian way of flattering the consumer into buying this product? At least there's a nice picture of the eponymous building on the label.Weizenmensch, Jul 13, 20052.33/5 rDev -9.7%look: 2 | smell: 2 | taste: 2.5 | feel: 2 | overall: 2.5Taj Mahal Poured from large 22oz bottle at Spice Cafe into tall pilsner glass. Beer poured a light straw color with minimal head and lacing. Very macro-esque appearance and smell . Taste was also unimpressive. Not much if any malt or hop prescense. Very thin and unmemorable. However it was a very smooth and refreshing accompaniment to Channa Masala, but nothing to write home about.Kraken, Apr 27, 20081.8/5 rDev -30.2%look: 2.5 | smell: 2 | taste: 1.5 | feel: 2 | overall: 2A 330ml bottle with a BB date of 17/12/2010, so it's a little out of date. Picked up from a local off-licence that was selling it for next to nothing (probably due to the date). Label features the Taj Mahal (of course) and describes it as a premium lager brewed in India.Poured into a pint glass. Very pale straw colour with a thin foamy head that disappears within 30 seconds. Medium carbonation. Aroma is strange - initially it smells distinctly of sour apples, almost like some sort of acidic cider. After a while this gives way to an effete malty odour that doesn't seem particularly appetising.Taste - in a word - yuck. A very weak malty character with almost no discernible hops or bitterness. Very watery, and initially quite fizzy from the carbonation. Other notes that appear include weak apples (at the beginning) and an unpleasant off flavour that is reminiscent of mould or fungus. Not good!To summarise - it resembles mineral water that might have been stored next to beer at some point, and has some nasty undertones. I've tried quite a few lagers in my time, but this could well be the worst beer I've ever consumed (with exception to oxidised beers that I've tasted). To be avoided! It only cost me 60p, but I want my money back...PS. I still have another bottle of this. Who do I hate that much?jazzyjeff13, Jan 20, 20112.5/5 rDev -3.1%Cynic-ale, Aug 01, 20133.63/5 rDev +40.7%look: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 4Serving a 500ml bottle. This pleasant lager is best enjoyed nicely chilled. The smell is a pleasant mixture of hops and malt, as is the refreshing taste. The beer pours a very light golden color. There is a nice head formation. This is an enjoyable import from India.BadBadger, Jun 08, 20041.63/5 rDev -36.8%look: 1.25 | smell: 1.5 | taste: 1.75 | feel: 1.25 | overall: 1.75Pours almost invisibly. Pale straw color, little bubbles, smells like a dive bar. Tastes like, a dive bar. Imagine if they tweeked Bud Light just a little, with ah, maybe more water. Easy drinking beer, but for the price your probably paid for it, you're thinking that Pabst is much more worth it. You could drink a lot of these in a sitting, but why you'd ever want to, I have no idea.Do they get any points for a cool label?Beerandraiderfan, Dec 05, 20091.78/5 rDev -31%look: 2 | smell: 2 | taste: 1.5 | feel: 2 | overall: 2One of the palest lagers this side of a "silver bullet"...decent head, a little macro-like but holds some rocky shapes. Smell of detergent-like hops. Wow, this stuff is pretty tasteless, greasy corn-syrup maltiness and a nasty but light hop flavor that's as subtle as whackin' your thumb with a hammer. I should have given it a flash freeze down to 35 degrees F... One of those beers you try just so you can say you had a brew from India. $3.50 a bottle? Way too much...ADR, Aug 08, 20023.11/5 rDev +20.5%look: 4.75 | smell: 3 | taste: 3 | feel: 2.75 | overall: 3.25straw color, with a nice two finger white head that disappears in short time to a scim of white foam. Smells like yeast and malt. Taste is not very exciting but not disapointing. Pleasant fresh bread with a very small lemon taste. Mouth feel is clean. Not a bad beer for a lager! I realize now why I'm not a lager fan. I think this would be a great beer on a hot summer day.Tilly, Dec 28, 20141.75/5 rDev -32.2%JIMTRK16, Feb 26, 20142.53/5 rDev -1.9%look: 3 | smell: 2.5 | taste: 2.5 | feel: 2.5 | overall: 2.5(Served in an imperial pint glass)
Go fo the mango lassi.sloejams, May 05, 20062.58/5 rDev 0%look: 3 | smell: 2 | taste: 2.5 | feel: 3 | overall: 3A new hole-in-the-wall Indian restaurant opened up a few months ago, right across the street from my place, and I think I've waited the appropriate amount of time to let them settle before sampling their culinary offerings. As for the beer, they actually offer more than the ubiquitous Kingfisher (or god forbid, Minhas) on their Indian Beer list, which is nice.Into a Rani (yuck, I know) mini pint glass, this 330ml bottle pours a clear medium golden yellow colour, with two fingers of thinly foamy, soapy off-white head, which leaves a bit of streaky sky trail lace around the glass as it quickly fades to nil.It smells of grainy, cereal-heavy pale malt, some pithy, musty corn mash, solvent, and slightly grassy, dead weedy hops. The taste is more grainy pale malt, overripe green apple, a soft corn/rice, er, buttery character, and earthy, grassy, and mildly skunky hops.The carbonation is average, a bit tightly bubbly here and there, the body a surprising medium-light weight, and sort of sticky smooth. It finishes off-dry, the grainy malt and some stale vegetal essence lingering.While not something I would ever choose to have again on its own merits, some kind of brain-palate association made this beer go down well enough with some very decent lamb vindaloo, which I suppose is the point of the geographical food/beverage connection, real or imagined.biboergosum, Sep 30, 20092/5 rDev -22.5%ramonjkk, Jul 14, 2014