I've seen a billboard in Wellington that says that.....I vaguely remember it did well on packaging but i find it hard to believe that a monteiths beer is the fifth best in the world.....unless there were only four other entries and they were Miller lite, Budweiser, Export Gold and Flame.
It seems like it was brewed to provide some competition to Steinlager Pure. The beer was decent enough (somewhat similar to Carlsberg I thought), the label slightly disappointing, but the bottle was kinda cute. All in all, I'd probably drink it again I think
Had one tonight, straight from the bottle, didn't spend much time 'analyising' it as such. Seemed like just another green bottle lager to me, not bad but not the best either.
Permalink Reply by Dai on March 18, 2008 at 9:12am
I was really looking forward to the NZ release of this as I had read plently about how Monteiths were trying to crack into the UK market, so I thought if they could sell it over there, it must be okay. Had one on Friday at the pub. Admittedly, it was my 4th or 5th beer that night, but I was fairly coherent... I must say that I was more than a bit disappointed; it seems that they have made a beer that wont offend anyone and as a result I felt it was a bit bland. Maybe I was just expecting a bit more bite and flavour froma beer that was intended for the UK...?
This beer surprisingly won class 5 (not necessarily meaning it is the 5th best beer in the world) of the 2007 International Beer Challenge in the catergory "Lager between 4.3% and 5.5% abv". Have a look.
This beer surprisingly won class 5 (not necessarily meaning it is the 5th best beer in the world) of the 2007 International Beer Challenge in the catergory "Lager between 4.3% and 5.5% abv". Have a look.