Nathaniel Tapley doesn't give a toss about Sainsbury's Franconian style Dark lager.
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Sainsbury's Taste the Difference:
Franconian style Dark lager review
Submitted
by Nathaniel
Tapley
I don't care that orange carrots were
originally a novelty
item in eighteenth-century Holland,
a tribute to William of Orange, and that they were naturally purple or
white. A
carrot is orange, and let that be an end to it. Anything else is just
plain
wrong.
I'd no more eat a purple carrot than I would drink a dark lager.
(Oh.)
The Meantime microbrewery has been in operation for about five years now and, along with its range of branded beers, has been producing own-label beers for Sainsbury's "Taste The Difference" range. These include wheat beers, raspberry beers and now a dark lager.
At one time, all lagers were dark. This must have been confusing, as people may have got it confused with beer. Now, the tradition only continues in Franconia and Thuringia. I drank some to find out why.
First,
it has to be said, it's
something of a shock to taste
something that's a lager, but that looks like Coca-Cola. All of your
senses but
one are telling you that you're drinking Coke, whilst the other is
chilling
with a glass of beer. This was confusing, unsettling, and demanding of
further
investigation.
The second impressions were simply those of a full, strong lager with overtones of malt and liquorice, but also of something that was not as interesting as it should be. It was 'interesting' but not interesting. After you get over the shock, there's not a lot there.
I'm something of a fan of Meantime, and this is in no way a bad beer or a bad lager, but it's also in no way exceptional. It's something to hand out to guests to make yourself look interesting.
Although, if you have to
resort to trying to impress people with your choice of drink, it's
probably too
late for novelty lager.
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