Elephant Beer
Carlsberg Danmark A/S

Paid $6.99 for four 16.9 oz cans. Gold color with a nose of sweet malts, grains, some hops, maybe a touch of corn. Taste follows the nose. I detect some corn syrup, but the malts take over everything else. Very sweet, but not as much as your typical malt liquor. Almost zero hint that this clocks in at 7.2% ABV. I prefer Euro pale lagers over this, but I generally liked this beer, and at this price, you can't go wrong.

It’s like a combo of ur classic pils and malt liquor.

Bad taste. Not like any Pilsner I ever had. I was looking for something different and boy I got it. Avoid it.

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Dark amber with a spew of foam on opening the tall can. Dated 07/07/26 which might be a "best by" date. This is really sweet with a taste like stewed apples and prunes. At first I thought it was devoid of hops, but after a few sips a ghastly aspirin bitterness emerges. And then some peculiar chemical fruitiness comes up from the underworld and spoils whatever pleasure there might have been. This is truly awful and my first drainpour of Spring.

 

 

Hadn’t seen this before. Picked up at my favorite East LA liquor store that has a lot of random crap. A weird beer. I’d say it tastes a bit worse than regular Carlsberg, but not that different. Slightly more bready, with a boozy aftertaste. A bit of banana/gasoline, Iike cheap white rum. It’s basically Carlsberg with more alcohol. That’s all.

 

Copenhagen 1/6 2015. 50 cl can from Netto. A worried looking Elephant is taking a walk on the front of the can.

Pours clear yellow with a white head. Dissipates fairly quickly leaving a thin, patchy layer of foam behind.

Aroma is quite malty and sweet. A little sharpness from the alcohol and some sourish grains Sweet pale malts, bread and alcohol.

Medium strong carbonation.

Flavor is sweet and grainy and quite heavy with alcohol. Aftertaste is heavy sweet. Finish is a bit boozy.

That this was considered to be a classic for many years seems like a mystery today. But you get a decent hangover.

 

Much more flavorful & malty than most euro lagers (helped by the higher alcohol content) but still has a hint of skunky, funky Heineken finish. There's better available.

 

 

 

 

 

Transfer from RB

 

Poured from large can into a narrow imperial pint glass: color is gold, clear, effervescent, head is off white with fine to small bubbles, head dissipates to solid top with spotty lacing.

Smell is adjunct and corn forward, but deeper malt and slight hop notes come through with warmth, subtle vinous qualities, straightforward noble hops.

Taste is more adjunct forward malt with subtle fruit and hops - notes of apple, vinous, earth, grass; definite Helles Bock qualities with a heavy adjunct malt base.

Mouthfeel is moderate/strong carbonation, moderate sweetness, moderate bitterness.

Overall a slightly deceptive beer - labeled as a pilsner but described as and reminiscent of a bock (helles style) in delivery.