The '4 for 5' Dutch Gold - This Drinking Life

Dutch Gold

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Brewed by Anheuser-Busch InBev
Style: Pale Lager
Leuven, Belgium

Launched in 1995, Dutch Gold is a low-cost, imported, pilsner lager beer sold exclusively to Ireland. Its damn popular, ranked as the third best selling beer in the country in canned form, after Budweiser and Heineken. Mainly due to its very cheap asking price, about a Euro a can, or traditionally “4 for 5” in a pack. Popular amongst students, the lower classes, and layabouts. Not a slight, I drink it myself, lol!

Funnily enough its not Dutch at all, but brewed by Inbev, a company from Belgium, but it might be brewed in the Netherlands by a subsidiary, but not sure. Albeit most of Belgium can speak Dutch but they call it Flemish…… not that the punters care.

Review: 500ml can of Dutch Gold Premium Imported : 4.0% vol.

The packaging on the cans have changed since the old days where it was pretty simple, now its all jazzed up but they kept the Iconic image of a Dutch man carrying a barrel on a blue can, mostly a bigger picture now and less gold. “Old Duchie”, what a beast of a man!

Golden coloured beer, not a bad head, nice, white and frothy. For a cheap lager it looks pretty damn good. Some small carbonation on the go. Good lacing. Looks fine.

Smell is light, very light, nearly odorless, more or less, which might be a good thing all things considering!

Taste is nice and lagery, with lovely big creamy mouthfuls on the tongue, bubbling away. Not much flavouring going on but this beer is very quenchable.

Goes down smooth with its tasty malts, nice and crisp.
No standout flavours or specific tastes , just a regular cheap lager for the masses, I like it, does the business, no faffing around. It really isn’t as bad as the critics say.

I know beer snobs look down on this classic, but for the drinking population who like their cheap cans this is the OG of discount lagers…….