King Chakra
Som Distilleries & Breweries Ltd.
- From:
- Som Distilleries & Breweries Ltd.
- India
- Style:
- European Pale Lager
Ranked #428 - ABV:
- 4.8%
- Score:
- 75
Ranked #38,646 - Avg:
- 2.62 | pDev: 14.89%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 3
- Status:
- Active
- Rated:
- Oct 15, 2024
- Added:
- Jun 10, 2015
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 1
SCORE
75
Okay
75
Okay
No description / notes.
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Reviewed by averageninjaface from Alaska
2.19/5 rDev -16.4%
look: 2.5 | smell: 2.25 | taste: 2.5 | feel: 1.5 | overall: 1.75
2.19/5 rDev -16.4%
look: 2.5 | smell: 2.25 | taste: 2.5 | feel: 1.5 | overall: 1.75
meh, really seems like a horrid knockoff of tsingtao, but mixed with faint resemblance of natural light and heineken, skunky light lite taste, thin mouthfeel, non existent lacing and carbonation, cant believe i paid 6.99 for this lmao. well jokes on me this time.
Oct 15, 2024
Reviewed by tone77 from Pennsylvania
3.43/5 rDev +30.9%
look: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
3.43/5 rDev +30.9%
look: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
Poured from a green 22 oz. bottle. Has a golden color with a 1/2 inch head. Smell is of grains, a bit skunky. Taste is grains, malts, kind of on the sweet side. Feels medium bodied in the mouth and overall is a decent beer. I'm surprised it's rated so low on here.
Nov 24, 2022
Reviewed by Jugs_McGhee from Texas
2.17/5 rDev -17.2%
look: 2 | smell: 1.25 | taste: 2.5 | feel: 2.5 | overall: 2.5
2.17/5 rDev -17.2%
look: 2 | smell: 1.25 | taste: 2.5 | feel: 2.5 | overall: 2.5
BOTTLE: Brown glass. Branded silver pry-off crown cap. 325 ml (strangely - why not 330ml?). Eye-catching label features warm colours and pictures of elephants. Batch no 19/01. Best before date is weird, but here's what it says: "2098/02 12.15."
Reviewed live as a "premium lager beer" per the label. Expectations are low given the country of origin. Served cold into a mason jar in Kuopio, Finland, where it was acquired at an S-market (supermarket).
No bubble show forms as it's poured.
HEAD: White, fizzy, thin, weak, and fizzy as hell, receding fully within 10 seconds, leaving no lacing whatsoever.
BODY: Clear clean watery dull yellow.
Ample carbonation bubbles in the body coupled with its violent fizziness suggest overcarbonation, but then no beer surged out of the bottle upon opening.
A poor appearance for a premium lager.
AROMA: Flat water. Some barley. A kiss of sweet grains. That's it.
No hops whatsoever, no robust malts, no yeast character, no alcohol.
This is easily the most neutral insipid aroma I've ever chanced across, and evokes next to nothing aside from water. If you took the blandest American adjunct lager you can imagine and cut it 50/50 with water, it would still be more aromatically expressive than this. I'd call it muted - if I actually thought there were notes being repressed. There are none.
TASTE: Sweet malt extract. Cheap barley. Water.
Yup, that's it.
I won't bother noting what isn't here, because that would take more time than noting what it is. Suffice it to say that while this isn't as insipid as the aroma suggested, it's still weak, muted, bland, neutral, and boring, with no interesting flavours whatsoever. It's hard to hate it because it just doesn't taste like much; it avoids the cloying sweetness so problematic in many premium lagers, as well as any off-notes (including the oft-experienced metallic off-note).
TEXTURE: Weak, smooth, wet, overcarbonated, crisp, and not unrefreshing. Surprisingly, it isn't watery - but it veers damn close.
There's no harmony of mouthfeel and taste.
OVERALL: Not a gestalt premium lager, nor a good one in the style. Its blandness makes it drinkable by default, and I imagine at Indian prices I could see myself revisiting it - if only because it has a neutral taste and will get you drunk. But it has no place in the international arena, and won't satisfy the discerning drinker. Still, it will probably meet your expectations of what an Indian premium lager tastes like - very little.
D+ (2.17)
Jun 10, 2015Reviewed live as a "premium lager beer" per the label. Expectations are low given the country of origin. Served cold into a mason jar in Kuopio, Finland, where it was acquired at an S-market (supermarket).
No bubble show forms as it's poured.
HEAD: White, fizzy, thin, weak, and fizzy as hell, receding fully within 10 seconds, leaving no lacing whatsoever.
BODY: Clear clean watery dull yellow.
Ample carbonation bubbles in the body coupled with its violent fizziness suggest overcarbonation, but then no beer surged out of the bottle upon opening.
A poor appearance for a premium lager.
AROMA: Flat water. Some barley. A kiss of sweet grains. That's it.
No hops whatsoever, no robust malts, no yeast character, no alcohol.
This is easily the most neutral insipid aroma I've ever chanced across, and evokes next to nothing aside from water. If you took the blandest American adjunct lager you can imagine and cut it 50/50 with water, it would still be more aromatically expressive than this. I'd call it muted - if I actually thought there were notes being repressed. There are none.
TASTE: Sweet malt extract. Cheap barley. Water.
Yup, that's it.
I won't bother noting what isn't here, because that would take more time than noting what it is. Suffice it to say that while this isn't as insipid as the aroma suggested, it's still weak, muted, bland, neutral, and boring, with no interesting flavours whatsoever. It's hard to hate it because it just doesn't taste like much; it avoids the cloying sweetness so problematic in many premium lagers, as well as any off-notes (including the oft-experienced metallic off-note).
TEXTURE: Weak, smooth, wet, overcarbonated, crisp, and not unrefreshing. Surprisingly, it isn't watery - but it veers damn close.
There's no harmony of mouthfeel and taste.
OVERALL: Not a gestalt premium lager, nor a good one in the style. Its blandness makes it drinkable by default, and I imagine at Indian prices I could see myself revisiting it - if only because it has a neutral taste and will get you drunk. But it has no place in the international arena, and won't satisfy the discerning drinker. Still, it will probably meet your expectations of what an Indian premium lager tastes like - very little.
D+ (2.17)
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