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Steinlager
New Zealand Breweries Limited
- From:
- New Zealand Breweries Limited
- New Zealand
- Style:
- European Pale Lager
Ranked #300 - ABV:
- 4.8%
- Score:
- 67
Ranked #28,217 - Avg:
- 2.85 | pDev: 20.35%
- Reviews:
- 283
- Ratings:
- Status:
- Active
- Rated:
- Mar 03, 2024
- Added:
- Mar 06, 2002
- Wants:
- 8
- Gots:
- 29
No description / notes.
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Reviewed by LesDewitt4beer from Minnesota
2.74/5 rDev -3.9%
look: 3 | smell: 2.75 | taste: 2.75 | feel: 2.5 | overall: 2.75
2.74/5 rDev -3.9%
look: 3 | smell: 2.75 | taste: 2.75 | feel: 2.5 | overall: 2.75
Large green bottles and 6 packs.
Pretty standard light yellow gold look with a thin soapy white head and medium carbonation.
Aroma is a little grassy and grainy.
Taste: imagine Carlsberg and Heineken together. It's bitter & sweet balance is okay. Hop spice and a distant bread note help.
Feel is a little bit crisp and chalky.
Overall not too great but it wets the whistle.
Mar 03, 2024Pretty standard light yellow gold look with a thin soapy white head and medium carbonation.
Aroma is a little grassy and grainy.
Taste: imagine Carlsberg and Heineken together. It's bitter & sweet balance is okay. Hop spice and a distant bread note help.
Feel is a little bit crisp and chalky.
Overall not too great but it wets the whistle.
Rated by davidward from Florida
2/5 rDev -29.8%
look: 2 | smell: 2 | taste: 2 | feel: 2 | overall: 2
2/5 rDev -29.8%
look: 2 | smell: 2 | taste: 2 | feel: 2 | overall: 2
A weak European style pale.
Mar 24, 2022Reviewed by milkshakebeersucks from Maryland
2.46/5 rDev -13.7%
look: 3 | smell: 2 | taste: 2.5 | feel: 3 | overall: 2.5
2.46/5 rDev -13.7%
look: 3 | smell: 2 | taste: 2.5 | feel: 3 | overall: 2.5
Clear, light gold appearance with a small white head. Vegetal, sweet corn aroma buried in a haystack. Light, crisp mouthfeel; lots of carbonation. Lightly hopped, sweet taste with little else to distinguish it. Found in the bargain bin of a local drug store for 99 cents where I should have left it.
Feb 01, 2022Reviewed by Harjoh
2.87/5 rDev +0.7%
look: 3 | smell: 2.75 | taste: 3 | feel: 2.75 | overall: 2.75
2.87/5 rDev +0.7%
look: 3 | smell: 2.75 | taste: 3 | feel: 2.75 | overall: 2.75
I lived in New Zealand 20 years ago. This is not their best beer but is mass marketed. Used to be available in Ontario but haven’t seen it for some time. Not my favourite but helped me satisfy nostalgia for New Zealand. I miss the country, not this beer. Haha
Oct 25, 2019Reviewed by hoptheology from California
2.35/5 rDev -17.5%
look: 3.25 | smell: 2.5 | taste: 2.25 | feel: 2 | overall: 2.25
2.35/5 rDev -17.5%
look: 3.25 | smell: 2.5 | taste: 2.25 | feel: 2 | overall: 2.25
Ticking off my New Zealand checkbox!
25.4 oz bottle into a chalice. Piss gold with a fluffy head that dissipates in seconds but leaves lace.
Aromas of urine/men's restroom, hay, corn, grass, and wet fields.
Flavor starts out with a nice bread/biscuit flavor but descends alarmingly fast first into a peppery Czech thing, then to hay dust (if you've ever thrown hay bales on a windy day you'll know what I mean - but most craft drinkers unfortunately have not worked manual labor a day in their lives), then to planty/stringy snow pea pods, and then back to stale biscuit. It's a cyclical thing. Lots of residual stale peppery chalky bitterness left behind.
Feel is crisp but has a disturbing amount of chalk to it.
To style, this lager is poor to fair. When you compare this to similar styles, it's far below Stella Artois, Birra Moretti, Bitburger, and the like. It does win out against Carlsburg Elephant, however. The crispness is there, but the cleanliness isn't; and the flavors sort of torpedo each other and don't synergize or compliment at all. I'm not sure how one brews such a bad beer, much less on a continual basis, but it happens a lot in several countries and breweries. I couldn't be satisfied with this personally. If this is New Zealand's finest, I'll be drinking tea or mulled cider when I visit.
Jan 06, 201825.4 oz bottle into a chalice. Piss gold with a fluffy head that dissipates in seconds but leaves lace.
Aromas of urine/men's restroom, hay, corn, grass, and wet fields.
Flavor starts out with a nice bread/biscuit flavor but descends alarmingly fast first into a peppery Czech thing, then to hay dust (if you've ever thrown hay bales on a windy day you'll know what I mean - but most craft drinkers unfortunately have not worked manual labor a day in their lives), then to planty/stringy snow pea pods, and then back to stale biscuit. It's a cyclical thing. Lots of residual stale peppery chalky bitterness left behind.
Feel is crisp but has a disturbing amount of chalk to it.
To style, this lager is poor to fair. When you compare this to similar styles, it's far below Stella Artois, Birra Moretti, Bitburger, and the like. It does win out against Carlsburg Elephant, however. The crispness is there, but the cleanliness isn't; and the flavors sort of torpedo each other and don't synergize or compliment at all. I'm not sure how one brews such a bad beer, much less on a continual basis, but it happens a lot in several countries and breweries. I couldn't be satisfied with this personally. If this is New Zealand's finest, I'll be drinking tea or mulled cider when I visit.
Steinlager from New Zealand Breweries Limited
Beer rating:
67 out of
100 with
457 ratings
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