San Miguel Fresca - Carlsberg-Tetley Brewing Ltd

jazzyjeff13

United Kingdom (England)

1.71/5  rDev -15.3%
look: 2.75 | smell: 2 | taste: 1.5 | feel: 2 | overall: 1.5

A 330ml clear glass bottle with a BB of April 2013. Picked up a while back from a supermarket. Label recommends to serve with a slice of lime.

Poured into a tulip pint glass. A clear pale-gold colour with medium carbonation. Forms a decent head of white foam that lasts for a moment before subsiding. Aroma of light malt with hints of overcooked veg, corn and faint stewed leaves. A harsh sulphurous note lurks in the background. Vile.

Tastes of ultra-light malt with a dry finish. Hints of stewed leaves, corn, overdone veggies and wet cardboard. Harsh, with an acrid solvent-like note upon swallowing. It tastes disgusting. Mouthfeel is thin and watery, like mineral water. Dry and rather astringent, with an aftertaste of harsh stewed leaves/veg.

Horrid. I wish I could call it tasteless, but it's much worse than that. Watery and insipid, with nasty off-flavours that make you wonder what went into it. I can see why the manufacturer advises adding lime; anything to mask the true taste. All but the most avid masochist should avoid this beer.

Serving type: bottle

04-25-2013 21:31:07 | More by jazzyjeff13

BlackHaddock

United Kingdom (England)

1.68/5  rDev -16.8%
look: 3 | smell: 2 | taste: 1.5 | feel: 1.5 | overall: 1.5

My daughter takes great delight in finding crap beers she knows I'll never have had before: take a bow daughter!

Clear 330ml bottle poured into a 'La Chouffe' stemmed tulip @ home on 16 Nov 2012 during one of my random tasting evenings.

Looked a typical lager/pilsner: bright, golden and clear, with the usual white head of fading bubbles.

Smells like a lime and lemonade soft drink, taste is simular but with hints of hops and traces of mild malts. Not something for beer geeks, but it might quench a young twerps thirst on a warm sunny day.

Serving type: bottle

11-16-2012 22:05:46 | More by BlackHaddock

EmperorBevis

United Kingdom (England)

1.45/5  rDev -28.2%
look: 2 | smell: 2.5 | taste: 1 | feel: 1 | overall: 1.5

Straw/piss coloured body with white bubbles clinging for their life on the side of the glass.

There is actually an aroma
There is a slight note of hops and also an ethanol.

There is nothing, I mean, nothing there on the flavour.
It says serve well-chilled probably to hide the only taste presence a metallic tinge it also says a slice of lime, better take that slice, through away the San Miguel and put in a gin and tonic and I HATE G&T.

Fuck all mouthfeel and plenty of fizz.

The antithesis of joy.

Serving type: bottle

05-20-2012 00:42:07 | More by EmperorBevis