Heineken is really really good, BUT, notice the big BUT, you have to buy it fresh. The case is dated on the outside using a Julian date format. There is a long series of digits that identify the batch and the bottling date. Don't worry about anything except for the first 4 numbers - that is the Julian date. I've been buying the beer 6 or 7 weeks old and it's been GREAT!!!
Agreed, it's definitely more palatable fresh. But that makes sense, considering that DMS (the corn flavor) will not fade over time, but other flavors will.
I bought a bomber of Heinie to revisit after replying to this thread. Shared it with a buddy, and we both agreed that it was better than we'd both expected and remembered, and definitely not bad, but there was a notable corn/vegetal flavor there. Not really for me, I have a sensitive palate, so a light lager has to be clean and free of off flavors for me to enjoy it.
Personal taste is subjective. That said, I'd rather not drink at all than drink Heineken.
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Fresh from the tap in Amsterdam it's crisp and refreshing with no vegetable flavors or skunky odors. Although Heineken has a very stringent tasting and testing regime across their world wide chain of breweries it's not the same if it's not fresh from the tap in the old country. IMHO it's far superior to other light lagers made in the US like Miller, Bud, Coors, etc.
I just had a great lager this weekend called Mountain Lime Lager from a southern AZ brewery called Old Bisbee brewing.
Great Mexican style lager. Had it at the beer festival and with temps in the high 80s and drinking tons of stouts this was nice
refreshin beer.
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