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Tikka
Brewery Van Steenberge

Belgian Premium Beer 5% Alc. by Vol.

As well as lending its name to Britain’s favorite dish,
a TIKKA is a mark made on the forehead during Indian marriages.

Tikka Gold and curry are a match made in heaven, the perfect partnership of Indian creativity and Belgian brewing know-how, blending the right amount of rice with the perfect balance of malts, hops and spring water, gives the beer its distinctive golden color and bouquet. The perfect partnership of

Enjoy Tikka Gold cold to extinguish the fire and refresh the palate

A few symbols explained:
1. The Taj Mahal is one of the wonders of the world and was built as a monument of love.
2. The design under Tikka Gold on the label symbolizes the ingredients of the beer.
3. The position of the hands are a sign of Welcome.
4. The Oil lamp under the hands is a symbol of energy.

Achieving Beervana?

     By Michael Jackson in the Observer magazine (03/2003) 

When Rohit Amin wanted to create the ultimate curry lager he turned to the experts – a small brewery in East Flanders. 

Gastronomic snobs used to concede grudgingly that beer was acceptable at the dinner table, but only in ethnic restaurants. As put-downs go, this isn’t that effective. The ethnic restaurant, especially the Indian (although more often actually Bangladeshi), can no longer be dismissed. The fanciest are starred by Michelin, and the rest are Britain’s most popular dining places.
Ethnic beers are certainly also popular, but do they win any stars?  All beers in ethnic restaurants in Britain are based on the same international style of golden lager, distantly derived from the original Czech Pilsner. 

Most lager drinkers in Britain only know this style, but I’ve always felt that it could be made a touch more characterful. Rohit ‘Roy’ Amin agrees. His family originate from the famously entrepreneurial State of Gujarat, but moved to Tanzania to run a business milling grain. Even as a toddler, Roy remembers being given a wineglass of beer by his grandfather. ‘I was fascinated by the foam and the lacework,’ he recalls. As a student in Britain, he read biochemistry. After a period with a company making vessels for the brewing industry, he decided he wanted to creat some foam of his own.
Roy’s view was that most British brewers were not sufficiently wholehearted in their approach to creating lager. He looked at the Continental European countries with the deepest beer cultures and settled for Belgium, the nearest and, he considered, the most creative. His beer is now produced by a small brewery in East Flanders. 

Roy’s beer has a fuller, more golden color than its competitors. This derives from small proportions of pale ale malt, like that used in Burton, as well as the usual Pilsen malt. There is also some biscuity Munish malt. Roy also uses one of the less common varieties of German hop, the Spalt, which has a grassy note.
There are touches of lemon grass and toasted grains in the aroma (papadoms, please); the beer has a firm, smooth body; and there’s a spicy perfuminess in the finish. ‘I wanted to create a lager with enough bitterness to arouse the appetite, and with enough flavor to stand up to the food,’ he explains. 

While he was creating the beer, Roy had a dream, an almost biblical prophesy. ‘In my dream, I had realized my ambition,’ he smiles. ‘We had our beer and it was a success. On the label were the words “Tikka Gold”. At breakfast, I was deep in thought. My wife noticed and asked if I was OK. I told her about my dream, assuming she would keep it to herself. She works in a firm of stockbrokers, and she told her colleagues. They said: ‘It’s a brilliant name, tell Roy to go for it.”  He did.