Amstel

The lager streak continued as i went to the "Bush Bar and Grill" on Goldhawk Road for dinner last Friday night. Now this is a pretty pretentious bar that is crawling with BBC and wannabe media types. They have a restaurant adjacent which serves out reasonable food. Ok the food was awesome, but we really want to hear about the beer! To satisfy my thirst I had a quick geez at the beer options and was disgusted to find that the only thing worth drinking was Amstel.
Amstel is a bland and boring lager that tastes quite similar to mainstream Australian Lagers such as VB and Toohey’s New. I say this because it has that chemically tang aftertaste that plagues Australian mega swill. This beer had been brewed in Holland though, with Amstel beer being named after the Amstel river which runs into Amsterdam. The brewery has a long and equally boring history, but to cut to the chase it is now owned and brewed by Heineken (see my Heineken entry here). To put it short, desperate times come to desperate measures!