Bangla

Formerly contract brewed by Hepworth for Refresh UK. Brand now owned by LWC Drinks - current provenance unknown.
Bangla Beer - its colour...the golden hue of the sun setting over the Bay of Bengal.

Bangla Beer - its taste...a rich full flavour with an extraordinarily smooth taste.

Chamotkar!"

2.2

193 reviews

North Heath, England

Community reviews

0.5 Bad beer among all....Very bad

1.5 The bottle they give you when "The cobra is off tap". Chemical tasting bullshit. Don't accept this clear Imitator. Genuinely tastes like a non alcoholic interpretation of an Indian lager. But nowhere near and with more fake sweetener. Avoid at all costs.

2.1 Bottle at local Bangladeshi restaurant. Poured golden with a large, frothy white head. Aroma of malt, hop, corn, grass and veg. Medium sweetness, light bitterness. Towards medium body, oily texture, average carbonation. Supported the occasion, that's about all.

2.5 Crisp, refreshing lager that went down very well with a curry. 660ml bottle from Mowglis, Cardiff, on New Years Eve.

2.6 Halmgul med fint vitt skum. Doftar lite brödigt och fruktigt. Smaken mellanfyllig och maltig. Eftersmaken kort med liten beska.

2.2 Clear yellow beer, standard carbonation, small white head. At nose mainly dough aromas. Metallic flavour and very weak malt flavours. Simple aftertaste.

3.9 Great with a curry! good on draught or in a bottle. dont see it everywhere but worth trying if you find it!

2.4 On holiday in wales hazy gold blond colored body with white head and with a spicy malt hop aroma a spicy yeast malt hop sweet taste with a light bitter finish

2.1 660ml bottle at Rashoi, Windlesham. Light amber colour. Damp stale grain, oily, watery, damp cardboard, vegetable oil, light artificial, sticky, weird light burnt rubber (?). Weird industrial vegetable oil type profile

2.2 660ml bottle with curry. Poured a clear, effervescent golden yellow with a small but mostly lasting white head leaving a patchy lace. There’s not a whole lot going on here but it slakes the thirst and cools the palate as you’d hope for when eating Indian food. Sweet malts, grain, citrus and grassy hops just about sum things up. Light to medium body, medium carbonation finishing with a bitterness of short to moderate length and low intensity.

2.6 Smeg, not a new country. Bottle at home. Pours clear amber, nose is floral, grassy, toffee, taste is dry toffee, sweet.

1.4 Only rating this to stick with rating all the beers I’ve drunk since signing up. Bottle at Thali Thali, Woking. Virtually non-existant aroma. Light amber, no head to speak of. Completely flat in terms of palate, no life to it, with a sweet taste, which manages not to be sickly. I think the phrase is ’near beer’?

3.0 Det er altid med en hvis skepsis jeg åbner øl fra "de varme lande", de er gerne lidt tynde i det, og gode som tørstslukker i det varme vejr. Men her i det kolde nord, foretrækker jeg nu en kraftig porter. Nå, men det er nu ik’ så ringe den her. Den er ikke ret humlet, som de plejer at være, men den har mere smag, af noget der minder over i noget fersken agtigt. Rimelig eftersmag.

1.9 Pours clear golden. Aroma is sweet, floral, diacetyl. Taste is sweet, floral, diacetyl.

2.5 Pours light amber with a very large white head. Aromas of bread, citrus, wet paper, slight mineral and light fruity notes. Taste is bready and lightly bitterness with medium carbonation and body.

2.5 660ml green bottle at Mowgli’s Cardiff, as ’Bangla’, 4.8%, BB Dec 2016. Dark amber orange, clear, lightly sparkling, small foamy white head. Aroma is light and airy, some biscuit and sugar. Body is light with tingly carbonation. Taste is toffee sweet, biscuit, tonic water, crisp finish with very little bitterness. I think my overly salty curry made me appreciate this more than I otherwise would have done. It’s fine.

2.4 Bottle at Pabna, Leek. Pours a clear deep golden colour with a fizzy white head. Aroma of rice, some grain, a little banana and slight herbal hops. Taste of soft bready malt, grain, some banana, subtle spice and slight herbal hops. Light bodied and moderate carbonation. A short, grainy bitterness in the finish with a subtle cardboard aftertaste. The hint of banana and herbs in this threw me a little but it’s still a generic, Indian restaurant lager. Ok.

1.3 Sampled from a 33cl bottle. Orange/gold colour with a white head. Soft carbonation. Sweetish malts and little hop taste. A slight hint of bubblegum. Rather thin and bland.

1.9 Bottle in Brussels. Orangy body with slight head. Nose is sweet, too sweet, of fruits and sugar and bananas. Taste also fruity with lots of bananas. Bitter in the finish.

2.0 Svergae head. Light yellow. Shallow aroma, some maltiness but not much. Thin and slightly sweet. Works as a thirstkiller on a really hot day. Not much more to say.

2.5 24/V/15 - 33cl bottle @ train ride to LIBF (Leuven) - BB: 19/V/15 (2015-683) Thanks to jc1762 for the bottle! Note: alas no country tick, Jon! :p Clear orange beer, small creamy off-white head, little stable, bit adhesive. Aroma: very sweet, bit malty, fruity, sugar, banana. MF: ok carbon, medium to light body. Taste: lots of banana, bit yeasty, sweet touch, more banana, citrus. Aftertaste: sweet, banana, yeast, slightly bitter, more banana. You would think they used Westmalle yeast to brew this beer. Very weird...

1.9 Warm golden colour, white head. Aroma of malts, skunky hops, bubble gum. Sweet malty flavour, corn. Sweet finish. Not nice. (from 33cL bottle @ Leuven Innovation. Thanks for sharing, tderoeck)

0.7 Thanks for sharing! Sampled 750 ml. bottle @ Leuven Innovation Beer Festival. Clear amber,… Nose is hugely disgusting, smells like insecticide, appalling nasty murky herbal,… Taste is syrupy insecticide, hugely sticky, horrible rotting herbal,… Syrupy body,… Truly awful, revolting beer.

2.6 Bottle sample @ Leuven Beer Innovation 2015, shared with the RB Belgian crew. Thanks Tderoeck for sharing. Cuivrée, col blanc. Arôme malté assez plaisant avec un petit bouquet caramel et pâle en rétro. Malt houblonné est léger et fleuri-citronné. Palais malt cara, pâle, petite note biscuitée tirant vers qcq esters. Houblonné modéré ajoutant une balance citronnée. Il y a pire comme bière ou alors l’effet des bonnes bières de ce festival fait passer cette pale lager pour mieux qu’elle ne goûte.

1.1 Courtesy of tderoeck. Apparently conceived as a beer from Bangladesh or India, but, much like e.g. Cobra, brewed in England for the many Asian immigrants there - too bad, would have been an interesting country tick otherwise. Thin and unstable, off-white head, pale golden blonde colour with not much fizz, cristal clear. Aroma of rice, sweat, iron and burning rubber, unpleasant. Sweet and sourish graininess in the mouth, thin, weird sweet (industrial) apple cider accent not fitting in too well, soft carbo (undercarbonated in fact, but in this case the fact that the bottle had been opened a while before, explains everything, I assume); thin and clearly metallic body, rice flavour, straightforward with almost no hops for balance; I hardly detected any bitterness at all in this one. Very unpleasant in every way but still interesting to taste, I had never heard of it.

1.7 Klares goldenes Bier mit einer geringen weißen schaumkrone. Geruch süß malzig, viel Getreide. Geschmack getreidig süß, wässrig malzig, langweiliges Lager.

1.9 I imagine this was brewed with some rice , which gives some floral tones. Does the job of washing down a curry

3.0 Poured into a teku showing dark translucent caramel brown with a finger of clean white foam. The nose shows sweet corn and caramel malts. The palate shows a lot of corn sweetness and hints of bready maltiness. Smooth, full bodied and evenly carbonated. Barely perceivable bitterness on finish but the sweetness returns once more on the finish.

2.1 660 ml bottle at indian restaurant. Pale golden with white head. Smell is light grain. Taste is light grain and malt, a little citrus. Semi dry with low bitterness and high carbonation.

1.3 660ml bottle at my local curry house. Drank about 100ml of it. Urinary infection dark yellow. Hard citrus aroma with pickling juice. Strong alcohol taste. Malt. Sour citrus. More malt. Unbalanced. Overcarbonated palette. Poor. Exceptionally so.