Debowe Mocne
Tyskie Browary Książęce (SABMiller)

Międzyzdroje 19/7 2019. 50 cl can from Sklep Mini-market (more a cornerstore than a mini-Market). Brown can with a golden tree. Everything is very brown and golden on this can.

Pours clear golden yellow with a small, bubbly white head. Disappears after half a minute leaving meagre remnants of foam behind. No Lacing.

Aroma is medium intense, sweetish and chemical. Sweet pale malts, caramel, toffee. Weird chemical odor of Hobby glue rummaging in the background.

Light carbonation. Thin, oily, almost flat texture.

Flavor is sweet followed by a light bitterness. Aftertaste is bitter with a sweet undercurrent. Finish is semi-dry. Light metallic, alcohol burn.

Run of the Mill strong pale beer which only redeeming quality is that it gets you plastered pretty quickly.

 

Clear amber color, mid-sized white head. Aroma of malt and a hint of hay. Malty-sweet taste, but not very sweet. Medium body, medium carbonation. Not bad for imperial lager.

I used to quite like this beer when I lived in London. It was one of the cheapest ways to get an alcohol high. I love the tree on the bottle, trees make me feel relaxed, spiritual and happy.

Fairly smooth head, quite brown colour. Aroma is typical syruppy mocne, with a little chocolate. Smoother than most other mocnes in terms of the aroma.

Taste is reasonably smooth, choclatey and also subtely hoppy. In a blind taste test, this could just about pass for a Belgian dubbel. The hops are in the background, and nothing particularly stands out. It's like the mocne syrup, malt, alcohol and hops have all morphed together into an alcoholic chocolate milkshake. That's the best way I can describe it.

Mouth feel is kind of creamy, in a similar way to a Guinness (but nowhere near that level obviously). Really smooth. It feels almost like it has nitrogen infused into it, which is impossible as it's from a bottle and there is no widget. Hops kick in on the tongue in the background. Quite an interesting mouth feel.

Taste is reasonably complex but there is still a syruppy glucose syrup taste in the background constantly, that gives the beer a kind of sickly feeling. Like you don't want to drink lots of it. This is best to drink slowly. Perla Mocne has lots more hops and I definitely prefer it.

Tastes I detect include lemon peel, chocolate, caramel, orange peel. And that it about it.

Overall the look, aroma, taste and mouth feel are all fairly ok. But do I like drinking it? No. It's good in its parts but not in its whole. Except if you want to lose consciousness and forget that your life isn't as good as you want it to be.

Glucose syrup is apparent in the taste, thick and sweet to hide the alcohol. Very golden colour also indicative of lots of syrup in the brew. Well above average for a strong lager of this type

 

 

I bought a can of this beer whilst sightseeing in Warsaw. It poured a clear copper with thin white head that disappeared over time and did not leave any lace. The scent had grain notes. The taste was nicely balanced and easy to drink with grain presence. The mouthfeel was lighter in body with good carbonation. Overall it is a good beer.

16oz can. Poured out a clear, golden amber color with a small, off-white head of bubbly foam. It left minimal lacing on the glass. It smelled of corn, grain alcohol and caramel. Sweet caramel, corn and bready taste. Some boozy heat. Minimal bitterness.

 

 

This is easily my favourite beer. This is not too sweet, not too bitter and easy to drink even though its 7%.

It seems to me that negative reviews of this beer are by people who like overly bitter beer. Sure a super hopped beer will be tasty and extremely bitter, please if you like that sort of thing give the beer you like a glowing review. This is not a bitter beer, this isn't overly sweet either like almost all the mainstream beers out there. Its perfect just as it is and deserves to be respected for what it is, not what it isn't.

This is a truly great beer that does its own thing, and caters to the Goldilocks zone beer drinkers out there. Seeing the first review that comes up on a google search saying 'worst beer ever' is such a shame and totally undeserved.

I'll say it again, a great beer and I created this account just to leave this review.

Pours clear, light caramel in color with one third inch head. Taste is caramel and dark bread. Medium heavy bodied, moderate carbonation and sweet. Good for the style. Big malt bomb. Could have a couple.

 

 

 

 

 

A 500ml can with a BB of Sept 2014, so it's rather out of date. Picked up a while back from a B&M store. I'm guessing this is the Polish version of Special Brew....

A: Poured into a straight pint glass. A bright, clear amber colour with slight floating sediment and good carbonation. Produces a large head of creamy white foam that lasts for a few minutes before reducing to a patchy surface layer. Some lacing.

S: Aroma of mildly sweet malt with hints of barley sugar, subtle caramel, faint grain, stewed leaves, a touch of yeast esters and a whiff of booze/solvent in the background. Not too bad for what it is.

T: Tastes of sweet malt with a mild finish. Notes of barley sugar, subtle caramel, husky grain, stewed leaves, faint yeast esters and a touch of harsh cardboard in the background. Slightly sweet, followed by boozy overtones and a subdued leafiness upon swallowing.

M: Mouthfeel is smooth and tingly, with pleasant carbonation and good body for the style. Slightly astringent, accompanied by an aftertaste of barley malt, mildly acrid cardboard and faint stewed leaves.

O: So-so; OK for a mass-produced lager but not exactly a classic. Looks alright, while the aroma and flavour are sweet, malty and mild. Par for the course character-wise. Decent body. Goes down without complaint but pretty forgettable. No need to seek it out.