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Tennent's Super Strong Lager
Tennent Caledonian Breweries
- From:
- Tennent Caledonian Breweries
- Scotland, United Kingdom
- Style:
- European Strong Lager
Ranked #44 - ABV:
- 9%
- Score:
- 64
Ranked #28,340 - Avg:
- 2.61 | pDev: 34.48%
- Reviews:
- 36
- Ratings:
- Status:
- Active
- Rated:
- Jan 04, 2024
- Added:
- Oct 30, 2001
- Wants:
- 5
- Gots:
- 18
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Ratings by GMB:
Reviewed by GMB from Japan
2.83/5 rDev +8.4%
look: 3 | smell: 2.5 | taste: 3 | feel: 2.5 | overall: 3
2.83/5 rDev +8.4%
look: 3 | smell: 2.5 | taste: 3 | feel: 2.5 | overall: 3
Tennent's Super Strong Lager may be "Scotland's No. 1 Beer" (as the can claims), but this can was brewed in Maharashtra, India, where the brand enjoys a loyal following. It pours a very pale translucent golden color with a short-lived fizzy white head and lots of carbonation.
The nose is grainy and very sweet. Ethyl alcohol is up front.
The taste is more pleasant than I expected it to be. Bitter alcohol flavors begin to emerge in the middle of the palate, but are quickly masked by barley and rice malts, whose sweetness outstays its welcome. There's not anything special here, but neither is there anything offensive. The sweetness makes the brew quite drinkable. In fact, this strong lager may be too drinkable for its own good. My 500 ml (16 oz.) can disappeared in a matter of minutes.
Overall, Tennent's Super Strong Lager is not a beer I'd recommend to beer drinkers who have access to superior representations of the strong lager/malt liquor styles. But if you find yourself in Delhi with 65 rupees (about $1.25/€1) in your pocket, you might pick up a can. You could certainly do a lot worse here.
Nov 16, 2012The nose is grainy and very sweet. Ethyl alcohol is up front.
The taste is more pleasant than I expected it to be. Bitter alcohol flavors begin to emerge in the middle of the palate, but are quickly masked by barley and rice malts, whose sweetness outstays its welcome. There's not anything special here, but neither is there anything offensive. The sweetness makes the brew quite drinkable. In fact, this strong lager may be too drinkable for its own good. My 500 ml (16 oz.) can disappeared in a matter of minutes.
Overall, Tennent's Super Strong Lager is not a beer I'd recommend to beer drinkers who have access to superior representations of the strong lager/malt liquor styles. But if you find yourself in Delhi with 65 rupees (about $1.25/€1) in your pocket, you might pick up a can. You could certainly do a lot worse here.
More User Ratings:
Reviewed by Roxchambeau from New Jersey
2.11/5 rDev -19.2%
look: 3 | smell: 2 | taste: 2 | feel: 2 | overall: 2.25
2.11/5 rDev -19.2%
look: 3 | smell: 2 | taste: 2 | feel: 2 | overall: 2.25
Bought from a corner store in Padua, 33cl bottle. Drinks like a standard adjunct lager with a bunch of sugar thrown at it. Smell has a boozy, almost liquor quality. Light body, moderate carbonation. Sugar and corn taste with no hop character. Unpalatable by about halfway through a bottle. It's good for getting a cheap buzz, but not worth drinking for quality.
Jan 04, 2024Reviewed by misteil from Ireland
1.93/5 rDev -26.1%
look: 2.5 | smell: 2 | taste: 1.75 | feel: 2 | overall: 2
1.93/5 rDev -26.1%
look: 2.5 | smell: 2 | taste: 1.75 | feel: 2 | overall: 2
consumed at the san siro stadium in milan, along with some very terrible food-truck food. i mean, what is there to say. it’s ungood. sweet, white bread malt flavour, and an array of astringent flavours, metallic, skunky, nail-polish-remover-y. medium carbonation and medium body. very bad.
Apr 16, 2022Reviewed by EmperorBevis from England
2.77/5 rDev +6.1%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 2.25 | feel: 2.75 | overall: 3
2.77/5 rDev +6.1%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 2.25 | feel: 2.75 | overall: 3
I found a can in the off license neary the chippy so thought I’d follow Steve from Beer Nouveau & treat it like Barleywine
Pours a crystal clear golden body with really good white head
Aroma is butterscotch
Flavour is sweet toffee and it’s really pleasant till a metallic aftertaste
Jul 30, 2020Pours a crystal clear golden body with really good white head
Aroma is butterscotch
Flavour is sweet toffee and it’s really pleasant till a metallic aftertaste
Reviewed by jlindros from Massachusetts
2.97/5 rDev +13.8%
look: 3.5 | smell: 2.75 | taste: 3 | feel: 3 | overall: 3
2.97/5 rDev +13.8%
look: 3.5 | smell: 2.75 | taste: 3 | feel: 3 | overall: 3
Decent fizzy head, clear tan color
Nose a bit macro lager, unfermentables, touch skunky, mild lager notes quite sweet and little fruity
Taste more sweet malts, plenty of sweet and syrupy, little lager notes, fruity, little alcohol, candy sugar syrup, touch skunky and unfermentables
Mouth syrupy sticky sweet med, decent carb
Jul 09, 2018Nose a bit macro lager, unfermentables, touch skunky, mild lager notes quite sweet and little fruity
Taste more sweet malts, plenty of sweet and syrupy, little lager notes, fruity, little alcohol, candy sugar syrup, touch skunky and unfermentables
Mouth syrupy sticky sweet med, decent carb
Reviewed by Gajo74 from New York
1.81/5 rDev -30.7%
look: 2.75 | smell: 1.75 | taste: 1.75 | feel: 1.75 | overall: 1.75
1.81/5 rDev -30.7%
look: 2.75 | smell: 1.75 | taste: 1.75 | feel: 1.75 | overall: 1.75
I saw this a lot in Rome and finally ordered it out of pure curiosity.
Pours a clear golden color, quickly dissipating head and that leaves a thin ring.
The aroma is all about the alcohol. Putting it up to my nose it smells like vodka. There is some cereal grain in the aroma, however, it's mostly overshadowed by the booze.
The taste can be described as a sticky, gooey and sweet cereal grain. The alcohol, again vodka, is all over the place.
The body is medium but as it is tough to get through this one, hard to drink, especially as it warms.
This is like a European malt liquor. The only benefit I can see is if you want a quick cheap buzz as long as it's drunk ice cold. Personally, those are not qualities I seek in a brew.
Aug 16, 2017Pours a clear golden color, quickly dissipating head and that leaves a thin ring.
The aroma is all about the alcohol. Putting it up to my nose it smells like vodka. There is some cereal grain in the aroma, however, it's mostly overshadowed by the booze.
The taste can be described as a sticky, gooey and sweet cereal grain. The alcohol, again vodka, is all over the place.
The body is medium but as it is tough to get through this one, hard to drink, especially as it warms.
This is like a European malt liquor. The only benefit I can see is if you want a quick cheap buzz as long as it's drunk ice cold. Personally, those are not qualities I seek in a brew.
Tennent's Super Strong Lager from Tennent Caledonian Breweries
Beer rating:
64 out of
100 with
82 ratings
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