It’s not bud light, sooo, good enough.

Real peppery lovely beer

Its shite

Interestingly Lidl now stock the Czech brewed version of this. A comparison with the UK brewed version would be interesting.

It's absolutely beautiful on tap in Majorca and is 4.7/4.8 %.

Have you played this season of Fortnite it’s a marvel season

I remember the advertising in the 80’s and they pronounced it Oran Gee Boom. Orangeboom, orangeboom it’s a lager not a tune. 🎶

Warm beer , nice one 😂

I had a pint on draught from a pub the other day and I thought it was really nice.

My introduction to dunkels was a stag weekend in Berlin, at the Hofbrau keller. I don't remember all that much of the weekend but I do remember the great beer. It's not all that dissimilar to the old milds we used to get in the UK

Edinburgh arguably has the right kind of water for lager.

Another one I could only have in Munich, we get the Marzen here in the US. Drank more than a few of those! Love Spaten

My favorite. We can get the Marzen version as well and this is just like what we had at Oktoberfest last year. Everyone I've given one of these to all say the same thing: Oh, that's delicious!

Great review! Had the pleasure of tossing back a few of these at last year's Oktoberfest. Goes down VERY easy. This year bought a mini keg of it, ended up drinking half of it before I knew it, and did I ever feel it. Didn't even check the ABV until the next day to realize it was 6.3

Another example of a half decent beer being brewed under license in the UK and tasting like piss. Why can’t we just import it?

40th soon might have to get some 👍

I had a pint of this earlier at my local Wetherspoon, on the way Home from Work. I sat and read 'The Time Machine' by H.G.Wells, near the window. What an enjoyable moment. I would've stayed for another, but the snotty kid who threw my pint at me kind of changed my mind for me. 😂 I do like this ipa. Strangely enough, i popped into Tesco for their 4 for £7 deal. I got this, Hobgoblin Dark Stout, Broadside and some Bavarian Dankel Weissbier i've tried before and loved. The others i haven't tried. ( Well until i got to Wethys obviously. Haa!😋)

I don't agree with your analysis

Buddy, you should come to Columbus Ohio. We have several markets which will let you buy singles even from the American adjunct lagers… but I certainly recommend shopping for local craft beers. We have a plethora of good craft beers here in Columbus. Which also display the alcohol by volume 😉

It's been years since I've seen this ale, in Louisiana.

Have you tried the hopfenweiss ipa they do? I looked at a bottle today in Beers of Europe. I wish I'd bought a bottle now...

Can you review Karmeliten kloster gold? Would be great to get your opinion about this one

solid beer, good job Conor

Cruz Campo, Madri all pumping Glucose Syrup into it. I can just about stand Madri if its the only option, but as beer goes its utter junk in my opinion. Just buy a bottle of German Pils for great lager; Paulaner, Warsteinner, Krombacher etc. All streets ahead of the fake UK stuff.

What's a low carbonation beer?

What beer has low carbonation?

Samuel Smith oatmeal stout is far superior, than any macro brewed stouts, takeaway the nitro, it will be even more bland

There's a new version, 660ml bottle recently released in Aldi. Tastes better

Hi Paul can you review Siren - just like paradise ipa I really like it can pick it up from Asda

Got some cans of this from my local independent off-licence. No glucose syrup only water malted barley and hops. The colour is more golden. Brewed in France.

Still available on Trembling Madness, just ordered mine.

I had a bottle of this last weekend. Beautiful. Gave it a 4.75 on untapped, which is my joint highest score for any beer.

What the heck, I still have a bottle to drink. You need a SN bottle opener.

Fabulous beer. Hard to get in Canada but got it this year ! The only other seasonal I could get my hands on previously was the Narwhal Imperial stout. Also magnificent

This is one of my favourite annual releases. Love this beer.

The glucose syrup shouldn't add any sweetness (unless they prematurely stop fermentation) - it's very fermentable, and it's also a lot cheaper and easier than grain. The sweetness is probably just the lack of hops lol, and the metalic taste is probably poor yeast management and/or fermentation. Perfect park bench beer! lol. Good review, dude!

This is too strong for me. 30 years ago I used to drink Kestrel Export at 5%. For a while Kestrel Lager was brought back at 4.2% which was OK. Thats gone again now at least in England. I guess the purple beer is now the standard strength lager at 4.6%

I check all new beers for GS now and avoid them like the plague, Shepherd Neame Have gone down this route and killed their brand along with the majority of swill brewed under the Marstons, Wychwood labels.

If the park bench crowd are Kestral's main customers then maybe that's who they are aiming at with this strong lager as well. The last 7% lager i had was about 25 years ago in Thailand.

I remember the old chavs from back in the day around here drank kestrel haha

I’m enjoying one of these now as I type, spot on review! This is a serious beer that some people don’t understand. Glad you enjoyed it

Paul you should review Victoria Malaga. I picked a 660ml bottle up from Morrisons for £2. It's decent but I still prefer Madri.

Picked up a bottle of this and just tried it. Cracking lager for one so easy to get. Reminded me hiw I'd imagine Rosa Blanca would taste if it had the original ABV. Glad you liked it.

Good review Paul. An interesting video would be you discussing most of the most commonly used hops used in beers and describing how they impact aroma and taste.

We have this on tap at a 🍣 restaurant I go to I love it

It was voted number 1 at Munich Oktoberfest in 2023. Had a blast there.

Really good, tried it for the first time while watching this video

its not a beer for everyone but once this beer has you, it has you good ulti u die. cheers mate!

I miss this beer. At least the one that was made back in the day. In St luis Missouri. In the early 80s.

Goes really well with great friends, had many a pint of Old Peculier, shame we live in the South East, never seen any of it down this way.