Lady Bird Bio Beer

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

Golden colour, small white head. Hand cream aroma (aloe vera?) with some weak hints of malts and hops. Flavour is plain malty and hoppy. Aftertaste has some buttery and hoppy notes. Quite pilsener/lagerish flavour.

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

RBESG 2006 Grand Tasting. ABV is 5.0%. Batch #26. Pale lager aroma and flavour, slightly flowery. Nothing to write home about, the aloe vera did not make much of an impression on me.

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

Deep golden body with zero head nothing but big bubbles floating to the top of this brew. I am dreading the first sip of this stuff, how can a beer that claims to be biologically engineered to be healthy and is flavored with aloe, and is brewed in India possibly taste good. A pretty strong smelling beer but not over powering, apple's, malts, slightly musty, it smells just like every other cheap import lager from the third world. The brew taste watered down, and mostly made up of cheap tasting malts AKA rice, with a moldy stale finish, there's also some apple hiding in this brew, and it all comes together to leave a bread like after taste. I don't know what aloe taste like but I can't taste anything that even might be aloe. This beer is getting crappier by the sip, I'm trying to force the last half of the bottle down my throat, and if it wasn't for the fact that I'm trying to get good and primed for the Dayglo gig tonight I would have given this beer the dump down the sink. But wait I feel very healthy and energetic now, is it the beer, maybe it is Brad, maybe it is.

Aroma: 5 | Appearance: 6 | Mouthfeel: 5 | Flavor: 4 | Overall: 5

This beer doesn't suck! Here's why is should suck...immensely: 1) Made in India. 2) It's called Bio Beer. 3) Has wonderful 1970's font on cap. 4) It's in a 650ml bottle. 5) Aloe Vera is apperently the secret to its goodness. 6) It says "First time in the World" on the label. 7) The trademark is owned by Advaith Biotech???? 8) It's made in India. 9) ...India. Now you must remember that this is still an Indian beer. Some of this is not a quality of Indian beers (you decide): Titanic bubbles which creates a big rocky white head....which suffers the same fate as the Titanic. Crystal clear and yellow. The smell is closing in on ...acceptable! (collective gasp!) There's a lemon merengue-ish odor, the usual cheap grains and some mystery smell....smells of pee later on remind me why you should never go down the swirly slides at your local park. Zero skunk but lagerish. Note - at this point I've used a device that will vacuum and seal your bottle to retain freshness (see: Quality wines). I don't want this to get remotely warm. Taste is not bad at all - considering. What is it? Why do I not want to pour this into the sink or let it get warm? Why is my stomach not preparing for liftoff? IT REMEMBERS PREVIOUS INDIAN BEERS AND ASSUMES IT'S AGONIZING FATE. But it doesn't come! Taste is a bit yeasty, definetly grainy and somewhat sweeter when warming. Soft too. Sour notes show up. Mouth hasn't went into seizures yet. Soft mouthfeel which is smooth with a light bitterness that leaves a drying affect. Medium bodied. Pretty damn suprising overall. I'm impressed - mainly because I assumed that I would be getting the stomach pump out of the closet. I drank the full 650ml and didn't require the stomach pump. And somehow, I'm healthier too (search for "Bio Beer" and read the news clips)! If I convert to drinking litres upon litres of Bio Beer I will become super-human...maybe even Uber-human. And my skin feels sooooo soft. Wrong. But biologically correct....