Palma Cristal

Cerveza Cristal - la preferida de Cuba

1.8

441 reviews

Holguín, Cuba

Community reviews

2.6 Pretty standard fare, but ever so slightly more malty, which is strange as they add sugar to this one.

2.9 Bottle shared at Dutch Brewery Ticking Session with Sjogro and ShivanDragon. Clear pale golden color, smal white head. Smell and taste malts, hayish and grainy light bitter a bit. Quite nice in 30 degrees Celsius I bet. Ok.

2.0 Cuba landjetick, erg bleek geel/gouden witte bubbeltjes, mega droog, karton, iets weeige mout maar allemaal erg licht, slap, matig

3.0 Nice island beer for whole day, whole week drinking experience. Never gets you full or over-bloated or completely wasted.

2.2 33 cl flesjes. Helder goudgeel kleur, fijne witte schuimkraag. De geur van mout en mais. Smaak is zoet, mout, mais en waterig. Licht lichaam, weinig koolzuur

1.9 350 ml clear yellow color with minimal white head. No smell. Taste are simple some dry barley and notes of rice. No aftertaste just some beer drink.

2.4 Dieses Bier war auch ein Urlaubsmitbringsel 2012 -soweit ich mich erinner von meiner zwidernen Tante... Es ist ein leichtes Helles mit viel Kohlensäure und wenig Geschmack. Kennt man schon von vielen anderen südlichen Ländern.

5.0 Beautiful sunny yellow colour with a rich foamy head to accompany it. Stunning flavour profile and easily one of the finest beers I've ever had the privilege of digesting. Breathtaking.

5.0 The beer is yellow as nature, abetted by time. The flavour and favour of the gods almost inscribed in the very fibre of its existence. The aroma can be likened to nostalgic childhood memories of frolicking through amber fields. “Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.” —Confucius

1.1 Bottle (thanks martjoobolut). Clear pale yellow color. Small size, white head, stays. Typical macrolager. Nope.

2.5 330ml bottle. Thanks martjoobõlut. Pours golden yellow colour. Thin white head. Bitter and malty and corny aroma. Corny, malty, sweet taste. Corny aftertaste. Light bodied, slightly crisp brew. Rather bad.

1.8 Bottle. Pours yellow. Aroma is cardboard, some hops, sweet. Flavor is sweet, sweat, cardboard, malt. Body is watery. Overall: bad.

2.2 350ml bottle, thanks martjoobolut. Pours clear golden, small white head. Aroma is corny, vegetables, hay, malty. Taste is malty, hay, corny, sweet. Light body, average carbonation. It's not the worst one.

1.8 From bottle at Coco Cubano, Pacific Fair, Gold Coast. After one drink I thought it probably rated about 1.8 on here, and I was right. Grainy aroma (corn in mix?), standard equatorial lager

2.2 Aus der Flasche. Wenn man es zu kalt trinkt hat es kein Aroma. Schmeckt wie Mineralwasser mit Alkohol dann. Ist dann irgendwie auch scharf. Viel Kohlensäure. Wenn es bei ca. 10 Grad ist schmeckt es aber durchaus nach Hopfen.

3.2 Pours a bright, clear golden yellow from the can with fluffy white head that dissipates slowly to leave moderate lace. Aroma of light grassy hop notes and a touch of bready grain. Taste follows, with a touch of rice for the clean lager crispness you expect from an InBev beer. The beer of Cuba, and honestly, much better than the craft beer I tried there.

2.9 Bottle. Straw beer with a whitish head. Light mineral aroma. Mineral and light grass flavor. Medium bodied. Mineral and light grass linger with light sweetness.

2.7 350ml bottle at Bueno Vista Curry Club, Havana on 25-May-2018. Pale golden colour with a medium sized white head. Aroma of crystal malt. Light body and medium carbonation. Taste of malt, grain & cereal - slightly sweet but refreshing.

0.6 Furchtbares „Bier“, riecht süß, metallisch, im Trunk ebenso übel, seifig, ganz fürchterlich. Keine Ahnung, was da alles drin steckt - ekelhaft.

1.7 Can. 4.9%. Best before 15.12.18. Pours a rather pale yellow, with a diminishing white head. Spotty lacing. Sweetish, cereal aroma. Remote milky hint. Takes on a light, sourish note as well as a grainy hint as it warms. Flavour is sweetish cereals, light hop note, metallic hint. Light milky note in the background. A wee bit oily. Bitter finish, a wee bit harsh. Metallic hint, lingering light grassy note. Meh. 19.04.18.

2.5 resin, floral, pale, golden, amber, clear, hazy, cloudy, rocky head, frothy, minimal head, white foam, light sweetness, medium sweetness, lightly bitter, medium bitterness, lightly sour, medium sourness,

2.6 This is available everywhere in Cuba much like Havana Club Rum. Costs anything from 1 CUC (about 70p) to 3 CUCs (about £2.10). It pours golden with a light hoppy, slightly floral taste. Finish is incredibly malty for a pale lager. OK, but the climate helped if it was drunk in my flat on a cold British Spring my opinion might be lesser.

0.7 Canned, 330 ml, courtesy of Max. Shared with him and JFK10000. Clear golden small shoer lasting white head. Vague maltiness, some cardboard, sweetish and extremely light and bland. Pretty much coloured water.

1.9 Can, many thanks Pilsnertest! Pale golden with a white head. Stale cardboard, some malt, dough. Pretty sweet. Drinkable but uninspiring.

2.7 "The beer is golden in colour with a minimal foam head that disappears as quickly as the lager smell. Small hints of malt and sweetness in the taste before it fades over to water. Probably tastes a lot better when served under a palm tree in Cuba." - beersoftheworldproject.wordpress.com Date: 21/04/2017 Bought at: Bien Manger in La Canourgue, France.

1.8 Honestly, tastes like that cheap French lager you get in massive quantities in the little dumpy bottles, which has its charms but also its pitfalls. Despite this, it has a decent bitterness. Probably goes down much better in the unforgiving Cuban sun. 330ml bottle from Wally’s Deli, Cardiff.

2.3 4-3-4-3-9 Can, eight months before bbd. Pours clear, pale yellow, with a big creamy head. Aroma is light malts with some notes of hay, as well as sweet, light zesty hops with floral notes. Medium body, with soft to average carbonation. Flavour is pale malts, with cereals and hay, as well as light, floral hops. A very forgettable and unspectacular mass produced light lager, although with with no obvious flaws. Probably even rather nice under the hot Cuban sun.

1.8 0,33 l Dose. Goldenes Bier, stabile weiße Krone. Riecht erdig, muffig. Schmeckt laff, unangenehm bitter, malzig süß.

2.5 Viel Wasser und ein Hauch von strohigem Getreide und ein wenig Malz. Gute Drinkability. Ein Bier für den Strand bei hohen Temperaturen, nicht zum Genießen...

1.4 Tasted on 18.11.17. Almost completely disappearing head. Clear light golden colour. Metallic aroma with hints of malt. Dry body with minimal maltiness and some hoppy but not very good quality bitterness.