Dec. 12 - 5,0 Original

5,0 is back in a can reminiscent of Coca-cola.  It looks like the same red anyway.  The can makes a lot of promises about saved costs and preserved quality, and emphasizes its export status...which does not bode well.

No polar bears here

Man, it's even lighter and thinner looking than yesterday's.  Pretty good head, though, doesn't disappear too fast.  I'm not even sure what it tastes like; there's something there, but it's so subtle and so delicate that precise description fails me.  If anything it's on the sweet side, absolutely not bitter.  No aftertaste either, goes right down.  Out of mouth, out of mind.  I could compare it with (shudder) Mahou, if pressed.

Dec. 4 - 5,0

So, I don't think the beers are shoved into the calendar randomly, I hold out hope that the black beers are being worked up to.  Just gotta get through the pilsners in the first few days.  Now I have something from 5,0, which might refer to the alcohol content of all the beers they produce?  The can at least looks like something more special and daring.  It's a "fan edition", in fact.  This is 5,0 Original, as opposed to the Export, which should come up a bit later in the month.

Another transparent, straw colored beer, dammit.  The head also disappears in a flash.  German lager-y aroma, a little sweet grain in there with a background of almost sour.  The taste is a blend of sweet, bitter, and sour, probably mostly sweet.  It's pretty solidly a German blond beer, but it has a little extra something in that sour part, although it still has a candy-like flavor to it.  It's more flavorful than those other pilsners, a little more attention grabbing.  Still a fairly tame beer, got that grainy taste overall, but it's more like what I've become used to and more pleasing to my palate.