Lady Bird Bio Beer Premium Lager
Khoday Brewing & Distilling Industries, Ltd.

Blind tasting, what the hell is it?

Almost clear, golden yellow, very pale though, before I touch it, I am thinking Euro lager.

Aroma, wheat, flowers of some sort, still thinking Europe, is it a crap supermarket German wheat beer?

What is that flavour and do I like it? No, not really. A mix of tastes, cereals (rye, wheat, etc), with a dryness that I find unpleasant.

The mouthfeel does nothing for me either, not a beer I will be trying again. It is supposed to be a Premium Lager, couldn't tell that.

The 650ml brown bottle claims Aloe Vera is in the mix, I'll wash my hair with next time, rather than drink it.

In the glass this beer looks a lot like a macro lager, very clear yellow gold with a white head that doesn't stay for long. Plenty of carbonation can be seen climbing up to the head.

The smell is somewhat grassy and plant like, a bit more earthy than average. It may be my imagination due to the fact that aloe appears on the bottle, but there is a hint of hand lotion in the aroma. Nothing to complain about here, a solid aroma.

Taste is a bit fuller than the average macro lager, but isn't anything amazing. Grassy and vegetal in flavour, I'd say it starts to lean towards a Euro Pale Lager in the taste. If aloe is notable, it has slipped by me in this section.

Light and prickly on the tongue, this beer isn't exciting in the mouthfeel department. It doesn't quite reach the point of watery though.

A hot weather, lawnmower beer at best, though I think you could probably find a less expensive brew to fill that job.

Found this one new to the Co-op liquor store on Mcleod Trail here in Calgary. Comes in a brown 650 ml bottle, blue and gold label, and distinctly stating that it's made with aloe vera. Best before date on the back label says I'm good until Nov. of this year.

Pours out a clear and thin looking pale gold, no real head retention, but a bit forms on the pour. A brief hit of sweet malt at first on the nose, but then the advent of sour grains and what can only be described as a plant-like aroma, sweet and vegetable-like in its characteristics, almost mistakable for malt adjuncts.

The flavour, is, well...akin to every other bad tasting Indian beer I've ever sampled. The flavour is flat, thin and one-dimensional, a little bit of malt holding it up, with a moist phantom sweetness that can hopefully be attributed to the aloe. It has a cidery apple juice finish, and a bit of an earthy, plant-like aftertaste. The more I drink the more accustomed I get to it, it rounds out a bit, but is still thin and one-dimensional. The mouthfeel is similar to that of a domestic macro, nothing there to give it a bit of a boost.

In the end it comes down to that old saying about how things taste when they're supposed to be good for you. I'd still rather eat my broccoli and brussel sprouts than have another bottle of this though. I'm all for adding healthy herbs to beer, but at least start with a decent tasting beer for the base first.