Different... (Fosters Lager)

Member Name: MichaelR

Product:	Fosters Lager
Date:	10/03/01 (67 review reads)
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Advantages: Cheap. Good with food. Unique texture

Disadvantages: Tinned variety tastes horrible.

I have to say that although this stuff is actually rather…hmmm, well bland really, when drunk on it’s own – I really rather like it.

Fosters is best described as “clean”… it doesn’t really have much of a taste on it’s own, and doesn’t really sustain much of a head.

When you get Fosters lager on draught, you’ll notice that what you basically get is a golden coloured lager beer that has virtually no head at all. You basically get a glass of thin golden liquid. That’s another thing about it – the texture – it is feels very, very thin on the tongue (if that makes sense… I’m trying not to go into the style of a “Food and Drink” wine review here) and does slide down much more smoothly than a lot of lagers.

The taste as I said before is quite clean…a bit sweet maybe at first with a slight underlying flavour that quickly comes in which is, hmm, a little dry almost, and then this gives way to a quite sharp and bitter aftertaste once you swallow it. (Which is quickly washed away when you take another drink from your glass)

This stuff is very nice with food though, and that’s the main reason why I like it.

When you go into a pub and sit down with a big plate of whatever (typically for me in one of the Hogshead pubs, as they do quite nice food at reasonable prices in MOST pubs in the franchise) then if you have a pint of something golden and lagery, then you’ll normally end up with the taste of lager in your mouth for quite some time after you drink it. Fosters however actually sort of accompanies most foods rather well – it takes on a whole new flavour when you have it with food, and this flavour rather depends upon what you’re eating. The texture of the lager, which as I said before is very thin and could almost be described as light also goes well with a meal.

Tinned Fosters is something com
pletely different though. It’s thicker in texture, fizzier (and quite gaseous) and can actually sustain something of a head. It doesn’t taste too good though… It has a certain taste of rubber almost (OK, now I am going weird) it does though – rubber – that is the main taste in tinned Fosters.

It’s best served very cold…better flavour comes out that way, tastes slightly sweeter and less artificial. Keep it on ice for best results.

Would I recommend it? On draught yes…. In tins, only if you’re looking for cheap beer to get drunk with and aren’t too concerned with how it tastes.

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