Tiger from Everards Review

I have friends who absolutely swear by Tiger from Everards they just can't get enough of it so how could I make a trip to my old University city of Leicester without trying their most famous beer? Just for the record I went to The University of Leicester, not the other little one. Anyway Leicester is very much Everards home ground so lets talk about Tiger. The beer pours a clear copper colour with quite an impressive white head, so it looks pretty good. There's a 4.2% alcohol content putting it very much in the session bracket which given that this certainly wasn't my first beer of the day is probably for the best. fortunately I still make good notes after a few pints.

The aroma is a nicely balanced mix of hops and malts with nothing coming through particularly strongly, the texture is light, verging on medium, which was a bit heaver than I was really expecting. Meanwhile the taste is pleasant enough, the malts and hops balance each other out fairly nicely, but almost to the point of just canceling each other out. I think we all know the problem with popular beer like this that get everywhere don't we? The reason they get everywhere is because they do exactly what's expected. There's no excitement, no oh where did that flavour come from? There's just a nice standard very English copper ale taste. I have no problem with this kind of beer, and every pub needs those old reliable English ales, but because it's a bit bland I can only really give Tiger from Everards 5 out of 10.