Antarctica Pilsen - Antarctica (Companhia Brasileira De Bebidas)

Halcyondays

California

2.4/5  rDev +2.1%
look: 3.5 | smell: 1.5 | taste: 2.5 | feel: 2 | overall: 3

12 oz. can,

A: Pours pale yellow with a nice white head, very good retention for the style, some lace even.

S: Very mild, some corn.

T: Very light initially. As it warmed a bit I got some husky grain and corn, DMS, but nowhere near as sickly sweet as the Skol I had previous, more balanced with the mediocre flavours it does have.

M: Light-bodied, thin, lightly overcarbonated, watery adjunct lager.

D: Nice enough, but a pallid beer. No problems drinking it, but I would want to move on to something else after one. Cool label though.

Serving type: can

12-18-2009 17:24:54 | More by Halcyondays

HalfFull

California

3.13/5  rDev +33.2%
look: 2.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3 | feel: 2.5 | overall: 3.5

Poured from a silver/blue can into an American Airlines clear plastic cup. My first Brazilian brew and I wasn't quite there yet. Alas, things would improve later in the week.

Pours a clear light straw with a thin white head that offers your typical brief retention. Slightly sweet of grain and light corn on the nose with a subtle noble hop presence.

Light lager flavor, slightly sweet and straightforward. More typical of a Euro Lager than an Adjunct, yet not unlike many a foreign 'throw it in the adjunct pile' beer. I moved on to Skol for a day then stuck with Bohemia for the duration of the trip.

Serving type: can

09-05-2009 07:47:05 | More by HalfFull

Jmoore50

Nevada

2.9/5  rDev +23.4%
look: 2 | smell: 1 | taste: 3 | feel: 2.5 | overall: 5

Hey, what else are you going to drink in Brazil. It was Rio Carnival, the girls were hot, and what else are you going to drink for a .75 cent a liter. Well either way it gets you drunk.

Appearance- It looks like Brazilion urine, what else do you want me to say. The white yellow fizz on top reminds me of soda. Really ugly and you can pretty much see right through it.

Smell- Like corn. Realy earthy.

Taste-Like colored water. Actually not that bad to be honest with you. Gets you pretty drunk and is really drinkable.

Overall, a pretty terrible beer. Nothing close to the great brews that we have in America, but when in Rome, huh?

J

Serving type: bottle

04-12-2009 23:30:56 | More by Jmoore50

DoubleJ

California

2.4/5  rDev +2.1%
look: 3.5 | smell: 2 | taste: 2.5 | feel: 3 | overall: 2

Antarctica is the name of a cold continent with pengiuns. It is also the name of a Brazilian beer with penguins on its label, and will be served cold. On to the beer:

Tons of carbonation bubbles spring to the top of the beer. Pale washed out straw yellow color, with a semi-froathy head on top with decent retention. Looks good. In the aroma, there is some husk and creamed corn, similar to other adjunt lagers found in Brazil. Taste....meh. It tastes like wood and grain husk mixed with a pinch of creamed corn. It's not very appealing to me, but it's not awful. Notes of fruit salad and fruit skins are noted. Carbonation is moderately strong in this light bodied beer.

Interestingly, this beer was being exported to the US thirty years ago, and we know how well that went. It's passable, but blah overall. One and out for me, and please don't make any penguin piss jokes.

Serving type: bottle

01-20-2009 18:06:12 | More by DoubleJ

jwc215

New Jersey

3.13/5  rDev +33.2%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3 | taste: 3 | feel: 3 | overall: 3.5

Thanks to jcwattsrugger for bringing this back from a trip to South America.

Pours straw yellow with a thin white head that stays for awhile before becoming a lasting patch.

The smell is of sweet grain, lime, a touch of sulfur with a slight hop snap. Smells like an EPL/pseudo-pils.

Confirmed. This is EPL meets American macro lager. Still-in-all for an American macro (/EPL?) ("pils" is out of the question/style standards), this is okay. Sulfur/lime, sweet with a non-descript bitter tinge (barely).

Very light-bodied - airy more than fizzy.

An easy-drinking, "bland" brew that calls itself a pilsner - go figure. Within that realm, I found this to be "okay". Not rushing to South America to get more, though.

Serving type: bottle

05-17-2008 01:31:51 | More by jwc215

brdc

Wisconsin

2.05/5  rDev -12.8%
look: 3 | smell: 2 | taste: 2 | feel: 2 | overall: 2

Another Ambev beer, which is unfortunate. Big company controlling most beers available in the country, therefore they all taste the same. Consistency, in this case, does not mean quality.
This one at least loooks a little better than the average: golden, with a foamy white head that disappears quickly.
Smell is part alcohol, mild hops, no discernible malt.
Taste is like a beefed up bud, slightly heavier, a tiny bit more body. Good to mow the lawn.

Serving type: can

03-17-2007 06:36:07 | More by brdc

schiaveto

Brazil

2.78/5  rDev +18.3%
look: 2 | smell: 2 | taste: 2.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 4

Similar products, similar comments:
Another product of Ambev, this beer is also a commercial lager style. It´s not too different in comparison with their competitors, many of them also produced by Ambev (Brahma, Skol, Bohemia, Original).
A pale lager beer, with low bitterness (around 12 IBU), Original Gravity around 11,5 Plato. Almost no fermentation aroma.

Serving type: bottle

05-03-2006 03:04:15 | More by schiaveto

decom

Brazil

2.23/5  rDev -5.1%
look: 2 | smell: 1.5 | taste: 2.5 | feel: 2 | overall: 2.5

this is one of the "least lousy" brazilian macros. not something I'd choose to drink, but it's better than Skol, or Kaiser.

Looks as pale yellow as most of macro lagers, and the same could be said about smell and mouthfeel. If you already tasted some other macro lagers, you won't miss anything if you skip this.

Serving type: can

04-21-2006 00:09:20 | More by decom

GreenCard

Oregon

1.93/5  rDev -17.9%
look: 3 | smell: 2 | taste: 1.5 | feel: 3 | overall: 2

Appearance: pale yallow, good clarity, puny layer of white suds

Aroma: corn silk, grain, some kind of chemical fruitiness

Flavor: dusty grainy malts, slight tartiness, corn, cheap alcohol, finishes dryish with a "malt liquor" aftertaste

Mouthfeel: light body, prickly carbonation

Other comments: In there with the world's cheap lagers. Doesn't surprise or disappoint on that count. Was given two cans of this as a gift. The first one I tried super-chilled and mixed with some Danish mead. THAT actually tasted good!

Serving type: can

08-25-2004 11:12:45 | More by GreenCard

soper2000

Texas

2.63/5  rDev +11.9%
look: 2.5 | smell: 2 | taste: 3 | feel: 2.5 | overall: 2.5

Pours a crisp very light golden color with a medium sized foam head and bubbles constantly rushing to the surface. Smell, like almost all thin lagers from Brazil is very faint. Taste actually had a little bit of body to it. There was presence of flavor, albeit not much. This is a fairly middle of the road offerring from the land of Samba, better than the Kaiser's and Skol's but not quite up to par with Bohemia.

Serving type: bottle

07-06-2004 11:41:31 | More by soper2000

TheLongBeachBum

California

2.1/5  rDev -10.6%
look: 3 | smell: 2 | taste: 2 | feel: 1.5 | overall: 2.5

The last of the 3 canned presents from a work colleague after his recent trip to Brazil. I wonder if he hates me? Judging by this beer I am beginning to wonder!!

A white 350ml can with a picture of 2 penguins facing each others, looks like a child’s Soda Can.

Antarctica hints at this beers function in life.

Has a classic macro-lager look, golden with a white frothy ½” head.

Smells are reminiscent of a cheap bar.

Tastes like a low calorie version of water.

This must be macro-swill, because I even crushed the can with one hand and threw it into the waste bin.

I imagine this is on draft in Hell along with Bud Lite.

Serving type: bottle

01-19-2003 23:14:04 | More by TheLongBeachBum