Cisk Lager, launched in Malta in 1928, is a golden-coloured, bottom-fermented lager with a distinctive and well-balanced character. Its rich hop aroma and pleasant bitterness, combined with a mild astringency, make it an outstanding thirst-quencher. Its alcohol content is 4.2%.
Cisk Lager was awarded top prize in the International Lager Category at the 1995 Australian Beer Awards and was presented with the Pfizer Food Science Trophy for the lager obtaining the highest number of votes in the same competition.
Christopher Leno –
Golden in colour and a frothy head. This is a very typical tasting lager. Very malty and crisp and refreshing. Quite a standard lager in general and the can size means it doesn’t hang around for very long.
Liam K –
Nice can design, actually feels wider than a UK can. Inside is a malty balanced lager which quenches a thirst very easily on a hot Easter Bank Holiday weekend. At 4.2% this is sessionable.
Steve Hawkins –
Pineapple on the nose. A nice smell to it, but then it starts to dwindle. An unfiltered and minimalistic flavour is apparent when sipped. The finish is very light and basic.
Andrew R. –
A decently tasty lager with a bright, sweet finish. Plenty of hoppy bitterness and a slight whiff of sourness that wasn’t entirely unwelcome. An interesting beer, that’s for sure.
Gareth Henry –
Love this Maltese beer!
Alexey Nekhaenko –
Exactly as expected – a lager from a non-beer country. Drinkable and forgettable
Luke Rutland –
Good beer only 4.2 per cent though
Matthew Waterhouse –
Clear light gold, small foamy head, lots of carbonation showing, scattering of retention.
Aroma has that typical mass produced lager malt, a bit like wet cardboard and stewed veg. There is however a nice and grass and lemon note coming from the hops suggesting this isn’t going to be a write off.
Taste is semi sweet, cardboard, corn, citrus, modest grassy bitterness in the finish.
Not watery but does have a light syrupy element to the mouthfeel so loses an element of the refreshing quality of a pale lager.
Paul Boniface –
A decent lager but non memorable. There are better lagers but probably not from Malta.
William Sayers –
Wet and fizzy pale lager. For hot holidays in the sun.