Drie Hoefijzers 3 Horses Lager

Aroma: 2 | Appearance: 2 | Mouthfeel: 2 | Flavor: 2 | Overall: 2

Right on Jon Moore! My friend and I had this beer a few years back and I remember the stench more than anything else. This beer smelled sooooo bad! It made my eyes water. The worst part is that if you do manage to get this vile stink past your nose, the reward is non-existent. This beer tastes as bad as it smells. Avoid this crummy junk!

Aroma: 3 | Appearance: 3 | Mouthfeel: 2 | Flavor: 4 | Overall: 3

One of the worst dutch beers. Bought in a tall aluminum can and what I would compare to Natural Ice. A good cheap beer but nothing that you want to have on a regular basis.

Aroma: 5 | Appearance: 3 | Mouthfeel: 3 | Flavor: 3 | Overall: 4

Poured a golden clear liquid and then you are greeted by the skunky aroma, nothing exciting a below average taste, just a fizzy beer where there are no defined tastes, the poor flavor ruined this experience. Was the time between bottling and drinking a cause of poor quality?

Aroma: 6 | Appearance: 5 | Mouthfeel: 5 | Flavor: 5 | Overall: 5

Bottle; greeted by a skunky smell on opening. Golden colour with initialy large, soon gone, white head. Aroma has lost a bit of the skunkiness on standing; sweet, malty and yeasty. Taste is sweet and bland malts but at least not offensive. Quite crisp with some acidity. Thin bodied, moderately carbonated; in fact it tastes like lager flavoured carbonated water.

Aroma: 6 | Appearance: 6 | Mouthfeel: 6 | Flavor: 6 | Overall: 6

Light gold color. Medium sized white foamy head. Aroma is malty, grainy, grassy and cornish. A medium to light bodied lager, Malts are sweet, touches of corn and grain. Mild hops, slightly spicy and bitter. This sample is from a can, so it’s not light skunked. It is a typical euro lager, and there are no real flavor faults. It also only 67 cents a 16 oz can. Can’t see that I would drink this one a lot, but it would be good for a fishing or a camping trip. Mouthfeel is full and round. Finish is clean and smooth. Aftertaste is slightly bitter.

Aroma: 4 | Appearance: 4 | Mouthfeel: 4 | Flavor: 4 | Overall: 3

16-oz white can, with gold pin-stripping running top-to-bottom. Green banners along the top and bottom; green-and-gold logo in the middle, with three disembodied horse heads. "Est. 1628". Said to be brewed and canned by the "Bierbrouwerij de Drei Hoefijzers, of Breda, Holland", which my research has led me to believe was taken over by the Oranjeboom Bierbrouwerij -- now InBev. Either way, this is surely nothing to get too excited about finding, IMO.

Echoing Stone's Arrogant Bastard, this is very much the epitome of "fizzy yellow beer". Pale gold, fizzy, lack-luster head of quickly-disappearing foam, etc. Not skunked (since it was in a can and not some crappy green bottle), but, at the same time, nothing particularily appealing in the nose, either.

Oddly sweet and bubblegum-like in the mouth. Kinda like drinking some water right after eating some Candy Corn. A bit sickly in the mouthfeel too. Almost feel the sweetness wafting down and settling on my teeth -- and that's not a good thing if you're talking about a pissy Dutch Lager, IMO....

Monotonous to drink, and I wasn't motivated enough to even want to finish this. $1.29, down the drain you go....

I've had worse, but surely even a Dutch swill can do better than this...
//TB