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Popped up to my local bottle shop the other day and as I walked in Dean, the friendly manager, smiled kindly and with a twinkle in his eye told me he had a beer for me to try. I was immediately concerned.
I have been slowly educating them to a more open and appreciative understanding of what beer was, is and can be. I am glad to say his palate and that of his off sider Cam have improved and thier enjoyment of beer has been a two way street ie they used to like the mega swill but now dont due to a greater appreciation of its bleakness and blandness AND they now look for quality and uniqueness in their beers which excites them due to the amount of good beers out there and appalls them because of the number of bad beers out there.
Any way I digress.
Dean happily handed me a sample bottle of Miller Chill which is being imported by Coca Cola. It is described as a light beer flavoured with lime and salt :blink: I could tell by the slightly manic look on Deans face he was really looking forward to me trying this beer no doubt due to the fact that I have made him try some of my homebrews and other wierd beers - I wasnt! In short it was utter nonsense ( a more polite version of crap) I mean why???? There was no 'beer' to this beer. No malt character, no hop character, no yeast character. There was a lolly water sugar free sugar kind of taste accompanied by the obvious presence of lime flavour most definately derived from chemicals that have never had anything to do with real limes and a slight lingering salty kind of well salt. :icon_vomit:
I dont see the point. Perhaps Coke thinks it will appeal to the female drinker but when they can get 7% flavoured vodka cruiser things with garana who wants a light chemical lime drink??
Anyone tried one?
And one other thing - I had a Caporal Pilsner - Belgian pils the other day - and yes Dean gladly gave it to me to try. I asked him if he had tried it to which he answered no and added I only bought them cos they were cheap. Mmmmm well to be fair he is manager of a liquor store and trying to turn a profit.
Any way it was not good and most of the bottle went down the sink. Strong metalic nose and lighter metalic after taste. It certainly wasnt a clean crisp pils with a good malt character and a nice hoppy finish. It was fairly stale. Any one had a good one of these or is this a typical example?
I have been slowly educating them to a more open and appreciative understanding of what beer was, is and can be. I am glad to say his palate and that of his off sider Cam have improved and thier enjoyment of beer has been a two way street ie they used to like the mega swill but now dont due to a greater appreciation of its bleakness and blandness AND they now look for quality and uniqueness in their beers which excites them due to the amount of good beers out there and appalls them because of the number of bad beers out there.
Any way I digress.
Dean happily handed me a sample bottle of Miller Chill which is being imported by Coca Cola. It is described as a light beer flavoured with lime and salt :blink: I could tell by the slightly manic look on Deans face he was really looking forward to me trying this beer no doubt due to the fact that I have made him try some of my homebrews and other wierd beers - I wasnt! In short it was utter nonsense ( a more polite version of crap) I mean why???? There was no 'beer' to this beer. No malt character, no hop character, no yeast character. There was a lolly water sugar free sugar kind of taste accompanied by the obvious presence of lime flavour most definately derived from chemicals that have never had anything to do with real limes and a slight lingering salty kind of well salt. :icon_vomit:
I dont see the point. Perhaps Coke thinks it will appeal to the female drinker but when they can get 7% flavoured vodka cruiser things with garana who wants a light chemical lime drink??
Anyone tried one?
And one other thing - I had a Caporal Pilsner - Belgian pils the other day - and yes Dean gladly gave it to me to try. I asked him if he had tried it to which he answered no and added I only bought them cos they were cheap. Mmmmm well to be fair he is manager of a liquor store and trying to turn a profit.
Any way it was not good and most of the bottle went down the sink. Strong metalic nose and lighter metalic after taste. It certainly wasnt a clean crisp pils with a good malt character and a nice hoppy finish. It was fairly stale. Any one had a good one of these or is this a typical example?
