alc/vol: 5%
Serving: 500ml
DAB touts itself as "The Beer of World Fame", which is obviously why I've never heard of it and why it was on special at Countdown. The large can and low price promises quantity and value.
The colour is golden and strawy like Lucozade and the bubbles roar up the side of the glass to create a lacklustre head which rapidly diminishes to nothing. It can be roused back into life with a solid twirl of the glass or a mix with the finger. But what can't, eh?
It has a light smell - bready without being too yeasty. But giving it a solid snort up the nose doesn't prepare you for the sweetness. As this is a German beer I thought it would have a fair whack of flavour in the savoury spectrum but the sweet butterscotch blitzkrieg leads the charge, disappears and leaves one's mouth a dry deadzone, tastebuds saying, "What the fuck?". Better have another mouthful.
It's a refreshing lager. It put me in mind of Asahi or those other Japanese and Korean beers in that it's super-clean and easy to drink, extra bubbly and refreshing. A beer made for drinking without all that fuss about taste. And even if it's a little thin and fizzy and puts one in mind of the cheeky shandy that your Dad would get you at the RSA on the weekends it's still better than reaching for a Tui or Export Gold after a hard half an hour mowing the lawn.
Drink with nuts, curry or fish. A good match for subtle flavours or relieving a burning tongue.
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