Amber nectar (Kronenbourg 1664)

Member Name: dave27

Product:	Kronenbourg 1664
Date:	02/11/01 (174 review reads)
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Advantages: Tasty

Disadvantages: None

There's only one thing for it after the sort of evening that I've had. A nice cold, ice cold, wonderfully chilled tinny. Bugger me backwards with a wet lettuce, that's so BLOODY good.

You see, I've just sat on the very edge of my seat all night watching a veritable feast of football, as Leeds just about snatched victory from the jaws of defeat against an extraordinary Troyes side in the UEFA Cup. Fingernails bitten down to the knuckle, this was the sort of match which gets a football a very good name indeed and it's left me with stomach in knots and nerves in shreds and really at the end of such an edgy evening, you gotta relax and in these circumstances there's nothing like sticking your feet up and cracking open a nice can of lager. Which is where Kronenbourg (better late than never) finally comes in...

I'm a confirmed lager lout, a lover of the sparkling amber nectar, and on this particular night, it goes down so extraordinarily well.

While the dave27 clan were away in La Belle France last week, Mrs D insisted on getting some cans of lager, very much against my better wisdom, but am I bloody glad she did, cos I really needed one tonight. It wasn't the 1664 super heavy, head material, but one called intriguingly Frais, "Trois Siecles d'Amour de la Biere", three centuries loving BEER - almost as long as me.

I have to say that the 1664 version just doesn't do it at all for me, it tastes a bit like treacle, although nowhere as near as all those Export Strength lagers which really do you damage. Apologies if you notice that this ain't in the right category, but it'll do for now, won't it?

Anyway, Kronenbourg Frais is a lovely drink of lager, clean and pure and refreshing and just right after a hard night's watching the box.

A six pack of them ran us just £1.60 in E Leclerc, a French hypermarket, and in anyone's language that's wonderful
value. The cans are decorated with a rather garish red and white large check pattern with the standard Kronenbourg crest and they come in a 33 cl size which the can reports as being 4.5% alcohol - I've never really understood exactly what all that crap means and tend to rely instead on my taste buds and this stuff is undoubtedly neat, quite one of the best cans of lager I've ever encountered.

Right from the very click FIZZZZZZ of the can's opening comes the grand expectation and anticipation and it's a real struggle to resist hoisting it immediately to your mouth to slake a man's thirst. To enjoy it best (like all decent lager), you have to keep your tinnies ice cold - there' nothing more sickening than a warm lager, totally gut wrenching and unpleasant. Well, my tinnies tonight were absolutely frosty cold and that first mouthful - YEAH, there's nothing like it anywhere...

Kronenbourg are one of the better lager brewers and they have managed to create something which is close to beer perfection - you don't even need the feeble excuse of a tough night's football to make a pig of yourself, so go ahead, beer monsters everywhere, soak your snout and enjoy...

The only trouble is, as you well know, when you've drained the can it just leaves you wanting so much bloody more and you're off again ... click FIZZZZZZZZZ... AAAAH!!!

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