Maccabee Premium Beer
Tempo Beer Industries LTD

Look - 12 oz bottle poured into a pint glass. straw yellow in color, clear, and large three finger head with moderate lacing retention.

Smell - light sweet malts, and virtually nothing else.

Taste - sweet malts balanced by moderate bitterness. finish is clean.

Feel - light bodied, high carbonation, and relatively low ABV at 5%.

Overall - it's a drinkable pilsner that's a bit more bitter than American counterparts. fine to have as a default selection, but average at best.

Maccabee Premium takes advantage of the fact that "premium" can be very subjective.
Not a good beer at all. Pours a golden blonde color with lots of fizziness. The head stays around just long enough for you to take your first sip.
High carbonation greets you, marring a light malt, corn and slight apple flavor and aftertaste. The carbonation may be the high point of this lager.
I might add, that here in NJ, this beer runs about 10.00 a six pack. Way, way over priced for a beer of such poor quality.

 

Bottle from Maruhn. Not much to this lager. No smell, little taste, and very watery in the mouth. Expected better for all of the former Europeans who live in Israel....

Poured from a 500 ML bottle into a pint glass in Nevatim, Israel
Aroma-Has a malt and grain aroma.
Appearance- A slightly darker color than Budweiser
Taste- this is hard to judge, we drank this out in the field slightly below desert temperature. It was hoppy
Palate- A medium bodied beer
Overall- This is not a terrible beer, however it isn't great. You often have limited selections in Israel (especially where I was at) in the late 90's and this is not a bad beer to settle with.

 

 

 

 

 

#3 of the mass produced local beers. Small bottle sells for just under $2 in the supermarket, which is slightly less than local Goldstar, Carlsberg, and Heineken. NOT a premium beer, just expensive like most things in Israel.

Color, nose, taste, and mouthfeel all say "Schlitz" when it hits your lips. Not a good beer. 2.25 is a bit generous for a score, but I didn't have the heart to go as low as 2.

If you are in Israel, try one, and then feel sad for the locals who don't have better options.

 

Presentation 500 ml green glass bottle with freshness date stamped below the neck.

A-light gold with a thin bubbly head which leaves a little lacing on the glass. Big bubbles cling to the side of the glass along side streams of little bubbles

S- Malty, Grainy, hint of sweetness, Bitter, grassy.

T - Crisp, grainy, malty with a hint of sweetness balanced by "hoppy" bitterness, a hint of smoke and a slightly metallic taste.

M- thin-medium body, low-medium carbonation

D- a decent beer which can be consumed easily in quantities.

Clear light yellow, foamy head which stays solid for quite a long time, very strong lacing.

Very strong hay aroma, also grains, some slight grassy hops. Taste is dissapointing - too light and sweet (even very slight bitterness would improve it greatly), flavour is very short. Mouthfeel somewhat too thin.

Typical large-scale mass production. At least it was comparably cheap.

A rather boring pilsener. It pours out clear yellow with no head. Smells of grains, hay, and slight hops. Taste is slightly metallic. Average mouthfeel, decent disability due to low ABV. Seek out better options if you're in Israel, there are a few decent brews from Canaan Brewery.

Beer bottle (33cl), tasted in 2001.
Apperarance : Clear light yellow color with white foam.
Smell : Aroma is moderate malty, sour malt.
Taste and mouthfeel : Flavor is light sweet with a short duration. Body is light, texture is watery
Drinkability : a very average beer in the Pilsener style

Appearance - Pours with little head and beer is a pale yellow color, appears very watery.

Smell - Slight skynky odor, some light malting perhaps.

Taste- Very weak macro-esque taste, watery flavor, some typoe of filler used, probably not rice, but something odd.

Mouthfeel- Weak on the plate, poor covering of taste buds.

Drinkability- An Israeli macro, nothing special here other than its connection to the holy land!

Had this on tap in Netanya... being a domestic brew this was much more inexpensive compared to the other styles being offered in the pub... For the price, wasn't too dissapointed... The taste was pretty decent... grainy and sweet with no bitter aftertones... Mouthfeel was a little below average, but the drinkability wasn't bad, as this brew went down easier than expected and did the job well... Haven't seen this beer outside of Europe... can't say I'm dissapointed about that, but it was worth a go...

A - Golden coloured beer poured with a couple of centimetres of white head into a pint glass. Head falls away to nothing very quickly.
S - A grainy aroma also with some grassy and cooked vegie aromas.
T - Along the same lines as the smell.
M - Light to medium bodied and fairly low carbonation for the style.
D - Not horrible but not something I'd recommend or buy again.

bouteille,

couleur jaune-paille, peu de mousse ou elle disparait rapidement, goût agréable de bière blonde commerciale, sans défaut apparent sauf son manque de caractère, sans grand intérêt, bière pour des chaudes journées au bord du lac tibériade.