This Tiger is a bit of a kitten! (Tiger Beer)

Member Name: Pablo_Sevilla

Product:	Tiger Beer
Date:	08/08/09 (42 review reads)
Rating:

Advantages: Works well with spicy food, designed for hot climates and hot days...drinkable.

Disadvantages: Lacks any real depth in flavour, nasty in large quantities!

Tiger beer is a fairly popular beer in South East Asia brewed in Singapore and weighs in at a tough 5% vol.

This is always available in Tescos for around £1.70 for the large 680ml bottles.

The logo is very colourful; an orange, blue and gold design making it very eye catching. Of course the golden tiger sits right in the middle under a palm tree. It's a kind of funky and unique design.

So, the smell on opening is fairly underwhelming. It's hard to detect anything other than a grassy smell, slightly skunky, slightly corny. Totally unoffensive.

On pouring there is only minimal amounts of head that takes only a few seconds to dissapate entirely. We are left with a pale golden pint that is very bubbly, with absolutely no head to speak of.

I find the taste to be initially very light, watery, and slightly sweet but then it leaves a tang at the back of the tongue replacing the initial sweetness with a subtle sharp twang. It is also very highly carbonated, perhaps a little too highly as it tendsto give me the burps!

It's unpleasant to get drunk off this beer, the sharp dryness tends to overwhelm after a couple and creates a nasty lingering after taste! The hangovers, from what I remember, are pretty awful.

Overall, you can tell this beer was designed for hot climates, it is light and watery and a thirst quincher. It's easy to drink despite the excessive carbonation. It's best drunk with hot spicy food, such as currys.

On it's own it's still better than the usual rubbish that's on offer in bars (Stella, Fosters etc) and in multipack cans on the shelves on Tescos.

But when comparing it to other regional SE Asian beers, such as the mighty Beer Lao (a world class beer) or even the not so mighty beer Chang (Thailand), it's just a decidedly average beer with a rather mediocre unoffensive taste.

Still, not bad.

6/10

Summary: see above!