Cobra | Cobra Beer Partnership Limited
Brewed by:
Cobra Beer Partnership Limited
England, United Kingdom
cobrabeer.com
Style: Euro Pale Lager
Alcohol by volume (ABV): 5.00%
Availability: Year-round
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Added by rastaman on 08-15-2002
Ratings: 135 | Reviews: 50
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2.5/5 rDev -12.9%
look: 2 | smell: 2 | taste: 3 | feel: 2 | overall: 2.5
Appearance This is yellowish-orange in color, mostly orange, with a meager, disappearing head.
Smell I read other reports of skunk here, but I (thankfully) didnt find any. This has a very light musty grain aroma with noticeable orange notes.
Taste OK, Ill try to be constructive here. The grain softened up a bit from the nose, which was nice, and the orange sweetness really took over at the tongue. Pale Lager sugars usually make me want to Ralph, but this actually wasnt bad.
Mouthfeel Not much here in this department. The carbonation was barely noticeable and this was light-bodied for sure, but I was able to pick up a speck of dryness that helped things along.
Drinkability I wouldnt say that this is a good beer by any stretch, but it is a little different than the run-of-the-mill Pale Lager examples. I can see how someone would want to grenade throw this bottle off a cliff, but I managed to get it down.
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look: 2 | smell: 2 | taste: 3 | feel: 2 | overall: 2.5
Appearance This is yellowish-orange in color, mostly orange, with a meager, disappearing head.
Smell I read other reports of skunk here, but I (thankfully) didnt find any. This has a very light musty grain aroma with noticeable orange notes.
Taste OK, Ill try to be constructive here. The grain softened up a bit from the nose, which was nice, and the orange sweetness really took over at the tongue. Pale Lager sugars usually make me want to Ralph, but this actually wasnt bad.
Mouthfeel Not much here in this department. The carbonation was barely noticeable and this was light-bodied for sure, but I was able to pick up a speck of dryness that helped things along.
Drinkability I wouldnt say that this is a good beer by any stretch, but it is a little different than the run-of-the-mill Pale Lager examples. I can see how someone would want to grenade throw this bottle off a cliff, but I managed to get it down.
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3.08/5 rDev +7.3%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3 | taste: 3 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3
A 330ml bottle with a BB of Jan 2013. The bottle is embossed with a variety of stereotypical Indian imagery.
Poured into a tulip pint glass. A pale straw colour with low carbonation. Forms a decent head of creamy white foam that hangs around for a minute or two. Aroma of light, grainy malt with a faint hint of stewed hops and a mild solventy background note.
Tastes of light malt with a slight stewed hop bitterness and a whisper of citrus. Crisp and fairly dry. Mouthfeel is smooth and pleasingly tingly. Aftertaste of stewed leaves; a little harsh.
A relatively hum-drum lager - probably it's best feature is the low carbonation level. Fairly bland and characterless, though OK when paired with a curry. Don't all rush out to grab one.
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look: 3.5 | smell: 3 | taste: 3 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3
A 330ml bottle with a BB of Jan 2013. The bottle is embossed with a variety of stereotypical Indian imagery.
Poured into a tulip pint glass. A pale straw colour with low carbonation. Forms a decent head of creamy white foam that hangs around for a minute or two. Aroma of light, grainy malt with a faint hint of stewed hops and a mild solventy background note.
Tastes of light malt with a slight stewed hop bitterness and a whisper of citrus. Crisp and fairly dry. Mouthfeel is smooth and pleasingly tingly. Aftertaste of stewed leaves; a little harsh.
A relatively hum-drum lager - probably it's best feature is the low carbonation level. Fairly bland and characterless, though OK when paired with a curry. Don't all rush out to grab one.
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1.6/5 rDev -44.3%
look: 1.5 | smell: 1.5 | taste: 1.5 | feel: 1.5 | overall: 2
Not much flavour, extremely watery and the taste is quite hard to find, i suppose its refreshing, but only due to the fact that you might aswell be drinking water, boring, no, in fact, very boring.
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look: 1.5 | smell: 1.5 | taste: 1.5 | feel: 1.5 | overall: 2
Not much flavour, extremely watery and the taste is quite hard to find, i suppose its refreshing, but only due to the fact that you might aswell be drinking water, boring, no, in fact, very boring.
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3.33/5 rDev +16%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3 | overall: 3.5
330ml distinctive tapered bottle. Seen this for a while, but always passed it over, assuming the worst - South Asian macro style lagers re-brewed in the West - Mountain Crest has already deadened me to that idea...
This beer pours a clear, medium apple juice colour, with one skinny finger of frothy white head, which sinks away in a hurry, leaving some low cobwebbed lace around the glass. It smells of grainy, bready malt, corn grist, and earthy hops. The taste is a surprisingly unpredictable mash of wet grain, corn cereal, and grassy, weedy hops bitterness. The carbonation is quite soft, the body medium weight, a little clammy, but smooth enough. It finishes off-dry, the earthy, somewhat bitter hops offsetting a decent, almost musty honey sweetness.
Well, while not the apex of a Euro-lager experience, this ain't all that bad. The purported mix of grains are all evident, and the hops, while not exactly noble, provide an adequate balance to the proceedings. Book by the cover, yeah, I get it...
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look: 3.5 | smell: 3 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3 | overall: 3.5
330ml distinctive tapered bottle. Seen this for a while, but always passed it over, assuming the worst - South Asian macro style lagers re-brewed in the West - Mountain Crest has already deadened me to that idea...
This beer pours a clear, medium apple juice colour, with one skinny finger of frothy white head, which sinks away in a hurry, leaving some low cobwebbed lace around the glass. It smells of grainy, bready malt, corn grist, and earthy hops. The taste is a surprisingly unpredictable mash of wet grain, corn cereal, and grassy, weedy hops bitterness. The carbonation is quite soft, the body medium weight, a little clammy, but smooth enough. It finishes off-dry, the earthy, somewhat bitter hops offsetting a decent, almost musty honey sweetness.
Well, while not the apex of a Euro-lager experience, this ain't all that bad. The purported mix of grains are all evident, and the hops, while not exactly noble, provide an adequate balance to the proceedings. Book by the cover, yeah, I get it...
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2.62/5 rDev -8.7%
look: 3.75 | smell: 2.25 | taste: 2.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 2.5
look: 3.75 | smell: 2.25 | taste: 2.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 2.5
3.37/5 rDev +17.4%
look: 3 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 4
330 ml bottle poured into chilled glass
Appearance - pours light golden takes some effort to form head, which dissipates very quickly but does leave some nice lacing
Smell - crisp malty and fresh, i think i catch a hint of rice among other veggies
Tastes - smooth, slightly bitter, which comes up mostly in the aftertaste
Mouthfeel - active and highly carbonated, refreshing
Drinkability - pretty good stuff and rather inexpensive, good if your thirsty for a quick one that's a bit different
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look: 3 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 4
330 ml bottle poured into chilled glass
Appearance - pours light golden takes some effort to form head, which dissipates very quickly but does leave some nice lacing
Smell - crisp malty and fresh, i think i catch a hint of rice among other veggies
Tastes - smooth, slightly bitter, which comes up mostly in the aftertaste
Mouthfeel - active and highly carbonated, refreshing
Drinkability - pretty good stuff and rather inexpensive, good if your thirsty for a quick one that's a bit different
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2.33/5 rDev -18.8%
look: 2.5 | smell: 2.5 | taste: 2.25 | feel: 2.25 | overall: 2.25
look: 2.5 | smell: 2.5 | taste: 2.25 | feel: 2.25 | overall: 2.25
3.37/5 rDev +17.4%
look: 3 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 4
Paid 1.29 euro for a bottle. This beer claims to have won 12 gold medals thus far. I find it strange that I am the first to review it.
Appearance is your standard fizzy yellow lager. Very little head. No lace. Smell is rather ok. Decent sweetness with a touch of hops. Very light throughout though. Taste is a bit budweiser-ish (due to the rice?) but a bit maltish. Strange presence with the corn added in there. Some bitter balances the sweetness well. Unique tasting lager for sure.
Nice easy mouthfeel. Described on the bottle as "the less-gassy bottled beer." I found it about standard.
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look: 3 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 4
Paid 1.29 euro for a bottle. This beer claims to have won 12 gold medals thus far. I find it strange that I am the first to review it.
Appearance is your standard fizzy yellow lager. Very little head. No lace. Smell is rather ok. Decent sweetness with a touch of hops. Very light throughout though. Taste is a bit budweiser-ish (due to the rice?) but a bit maltish. Strange presence with the corn added in there. Some bitter balances the sweetness well. Unique tasting lager for sure.
Nice easy mouthfeel. Described on the bottle as "the less-gassy bottled beer." I found it about standard.
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2.32/5 rDev -19.2%
look: 3 | smell: 2.75 | taste: 2.25 | feel: 1.75 | overall: 2
look: 3 | smell: 2.75 | taste: 2.25 | feel: 1.75 | overall: 2
3.36/5 rDev +17.1%
look: 3.5 | smell: 2.5 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
Soft beer with nice flavor and very refreshing
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look: 3.5 | smell: 2.5 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
Soft beer with nice flavor and very refreshing
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2.4/5 rDev -16.4%
look: 2.5 | smell: 2.5 | taste: 2.5 | feel: 1.5 | overall: 2.5
look: 2.5 | smell: 2.5 | taste: 2.5 | feel: 1.5 | overall: 2.5
1.81/5 rDev -36.9%
look: 2.25 | smell: 1.25 | taste: 2 | feel: 2.25 | overall: 1.75
660ml Bottle poured into a pint glass.
Look) As I poured the beer I was disappointed at the lack of a head formation. Towards the end there was a very minute foam which disappeared almost immediately. The colour was a very clear gold. The carbonation is very apparent. Nothing special here at all, but I have seen worse.
Smell) A very weak grassy smell with a sutble grainy touch, though this was after much agitation, very poor scent.
Taste) A watery, simplistic flavour profile, matches the smell exactly, though with a touch of sweetness towards the end. again very poor.
Feel) A bit too carbonated for my liking, but not the worst I've had. very light on the palette and quite smooth. Probably its strongest characteristic overall.
Overall) Another "cookie-cutter" Beer, nothing special at all, Most suited to a BBQ with family when people aren't focusing on quality. Other than this I would never recommend this beer.
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look: 2.25 | smell: 1.25 | taste: 2 | feel: 2.25 | overall: 1.75
660ml Bottle poured into a pint glass.
Look) As I poured the beer I was disappointed at the lack of a head formation. Towards the end there was a very minute foam which disappeared almost immediately. The colour was a very clear gold. The carbonation is very apparent. Nothing special here at all, but I have seen worse.
Smell) A very weak grassy smell with a sutble grainy touch, though this was after much agitation, very poor scent.
Taste) A watery, simplistic flavour profile, matches the smell exactly, though with a touch of sweetness towards the end. again very poor.
Feel) A bit too carbonated for my liking, but not the worst I've had. very light on the palette and quite smooth. Probably its strongest characteristic overall.
Overall) Another "cookie-cutter" Beer, nothing special at all, Most suited to a BBQ with family when people aren't focusing on quality. Other than this I would never recommend this beer.
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2.55/5 rDev -11.1%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 2 | feel: 3 | overall: 2
Comes in a tall slender necked 330 ml brown bottle, embossed with all sorts of curious images (from scales, to elephants, crossed scimitars to a palm trees). Ingredients list includes both maize and rice, on top of the barley malt, hops and water. Pours out a bright clear highly carbonated light gold hue, capped by a finger`s width of tight spongy head. Nice retention. Concentric wedges of lacing.
Decent malt on the nose, along with a low lying corn presence in the background, but the sourness from the rice tends to cut through it much of the time. Faint grassy hops, I mean faint....
It all takes a dive with the flavour. Sour veggie taste predominates although some crisp malt does appear in the middle, but disappears before the finish. Becomes a bit buttery as it warms.
Mouthfeel is average for the style, nothing wrong here, but not a whole lot of body to it either.
The flavour kills this beer, it`s not bad in its other aspects otherwise.
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look: 3.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 2 | feel: 3 | overall: 2
Comes in a tall slender necked 330 ml brown bottle, embossed with all sorts of curious images (from scales, to elephants, crossed scimitars to a palm trees). Ingredients list includes both maize and rice, on top of the barley malt, hops and water. Pours out a bright clear highly carbonated light gold hue, capped by a finger`s width of tight spongy head. Nice retention. Concentric wedges of lacing.
Decent malt on the nose, along with a low lying corn presence in the background, but the sourness from the rice tends to cut through it much of the time. Faint grassy hops, I mean faint....
It all takes a dive with the flavour. Sour veggie taste predominates although some crisp malt does appear in the middle, but disappears before the finish. Becomes a bit buttery as it warms.
Mouthfeel is average for the style, nothing wrong here, but not a whole lot of body to it either.
The flavour kills this beer, it`s not bad in its other aspects otherwise.
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Cobra from Cobra Beer Partnership Limited
2.87
out of 5
based on 135 ratings.
look: 3.25 | smell: 2.75 | taste: 3 | feel: 2.75 | overall: 2.75
It has a cool bottle that poured into a rose pint glass. The body was gold with about average carbonation. There are some bubbles to the body, white head and no lace. All of that disappears quick though. The smell is very basic some grass and citrus. The flavor is also very basic grainy with some crisp grassiness. It has thin mouthfeel with just a little bite.
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