Union Smile
Pivovarna Union

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Had this with a bunch of other Polish beers and this wasn't the worst. It had some inviting color to it and when I poured it into a glass it had a light foamy head, which was more than I expected because the bottles were caked with dust.
The flavor and mouthfeel were ok, just an average euro-lager. I finished about three of these and stuffed the rest in a cooler to send off to some unsuspecting friends, can't say I would buy this again.

Fizzy yellow lager with a white head. Clear bottle to boot, with a name and style that speaks merely of crass marketing and gives no information about the beer. Smell is not really that bad. Doesn't smell skunked, but does smell quite sweet with adjuncts. Very sweet with corn, but at least it doesn't have that boiled corn taste. Some soapy hop bitterness at the end. Mouthfeel is fizzy, sweet, and weirdly bitter at the end in a metallic sort of way. Definitely didn't finish this bottle. The sum of the whole is even less than its parts.

My wife bought this one on a impulse. The beer was poured into a pub glass.

Appearance: This is the epitome of fizzy yellow. The head is a thin white colortion. Wait a minute the head looks like it has mold on it. Lacing who am I kidding.

Smell: Whoo skunk in a bottle the sulfur is really rocking my nose.

Taste: The beer taste like brackish sweetend water used to boil corn. Yuck!

Mouthfeel/ Drinkability: The beer manages to be thin and oily. This beer is straight up nasty and down the sink it will go. My apologies to the sink and tiddy bowl man.

I bought this on impulse at a local ethnic grocery on the lark that a beer named "smile" with a sort of happy-face label would be fun to have around for some hot-tubbing. I fully expected it to be horrid, but, to my surprise, this actually turned out to at least be drinkable. Very, very pale straw. The aroma had no skunk, quite a surprise given the clear bottle. Flavor was not too adjuncty, but a bit too far on the sweet side. Called to mind Heineken's poor cousin from the old country. A been-there-done-that beer.

Yellow color, white head. Normal lager appearance.
Very sweet in the smell, like sugar and corn.
The taste is perhaps a little bit better, more malty, with the corn not so evident. Sweet again, anyway.
Macro beer.
Light in body. Malty (?) aftertaste, and a very little hop.