Tasting Notes: Photos Photiades Brewery: Leon

Photos Photiades Brewery: Leon (Cyprus: Pale Lager: 4.5% ABV)

Visual: Clear golden yellow with a moderate bubbly head.

Nose: Cooked chicken, sugar and malt. Lemon and icing sugar. Light citrus.

Body: Good malt and lime. Smooth, orange peel and a slight thickened texture. Very light barley. Crunchy nut cornflakes. Malt loaf with margarine.

Finish: Slight zesty orange, angel cakes and very slight banana and cloves.

Conclusion: Another Cyprus lager, but this one has a touch more body, decent malt and significantly less fizziness. A few decent flavours can be found within as well.

Of the two Cyprus beers this is easily the superior, and a decent enough lager in general as well. In style its closer to the eastern European lagers, though without the same flair of full bodied nature.

As of such it is a pleasant beer, which makes the fact that it is rapidly vanishing in the face of Keos prevalence in Cyprus all the more disappointing.