Having spent my first few days in Sri Lanka eating and
drinking at a guesthouse in Polonnaruwa, my first opportunity to seek out some
different beers came in Kandy. I was only in the city for one day and spent
part of the afternoon in the bar of the Queens Hotel, a colonial era hotel that
doesn’t appear to have changed a great deal in the last century and a bit. The
hotel is well worth having a look around if you’re in Kandy and the bar prices
are inflated but not astronomical, so it’s quite a nice place to take a pit
stop. I was pleased to see that they had a couple of alternatives to Lion Lager
and ordered a Three Coins Lager. Despite my order I was still initially
presented with a Lion which may go some way to highlight the stranglehold it
has on the Sri Lankan market! After the confusion I was presented with a
chilled bottle of Three Coins. This again is usually found in large 625ml
bottles. It pours a pale straw colour and much like Lion is a welcome antidote
to the heat. Again it’s a reasonably good lager, malty but, unsurprisingly, not
a huge amount of depth. Brewery: Millers Brewery
Country: Sri Lanka
ABV: 4.8%
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