I've just run into another Indian hill-country beer, Dansberg Premium
Lager Beer, from Yukaom Breweries, Sikkim. It took a referral to the
almanac to verify that Sikkim is an Indian state, not a new brewing
country for my lifelist. (Sorry, we Americans are such geographical
yutzes!)

Anyway ... in summary, a straight down the middle international light
lager; neither an unexpected glory of a remote region, nor an ycch-ptui
Gulder gaah! gaah! gaah! undrinkable third-world embarrassment.

Brewer: Yuksom Breweries, Ltd., Sikkim [India]

Color: slightly cloudy straw yellow.

Head: Medium, medium-quick fade, bit of residual lace.

Nose: Mostly malt.

Taste: A nice smooth malt presence all the way back; whatever the very
understated hop bill, it is neither offensive, nor intrusive, nor, to my
dubious palate, particular identifiable. The label speaks of "the
finest malt and hand-picked hops from Germany"; well, perhaps one might
be a bit more specific. Anyway, absent any reference to
ghee-as-diacetyl (and diacetyl is definitely in there), it's pretty
clear that most of the ingredients are imported.

In short, Dansberg is something that would be perfectly inoffensive as
an accompaniment to a north-Indian meal, but of limited beer interest to
anyone but us completist foamers.

Alan Follett