Beer Ratings: Rants

Camarada Lupulowski Cervejaria São Paulo, São Paulo

473mL can at Cervejeria Oak, pours a hazy golden with a small white head. Aroma is messed up, with a strange herbal character. Flavour is messed up, with a totally fucked up hop character - not butter but something else totally fucked. Just terrible.

Dugges Bryggeri Landvetter, Västra Götaland

--Sample, thanks oh6gdx! -- Pours like chocolate sauce. Tastes like chocolate sauce. Cloying and simplistic with no nuances, just cloying chocolate sauce. Another Dugges for the sink.

Budějovický Budvar České Budějovice, South Bohemia

330 ml bottle. Clear golden with a foamy head. Corn, cardboard, citrus, grain. Rather tasteless, slightly sweet and dry. Light bodied, watery texture, lively carbonated, dry sweet grainy corny finish. An average NA beer, just like many other macro NA beers…

Lilley's Cider Barn Frome, Somerset

Looks like water with a hint of gold in it. Sweet and syrupy. Tastes of elderflower cordial with added dust, but far, far too sweet. Teeth-dissolvingly sweet. Elderflower cordial is refreshing, this is just sticky. Frankly it's not much better than your Kopparbergs and Rekorderligs. Avoid.

Hijos de Rivera A Coruña, Galicia

0.33 l bottle shared with Marko, thanks. Clear golden, small head. Aroma is cooked corn and cardboard. Light body, thin, sweet, flavour is corn flakes and wet paper. Moderate carbonation, light lousy finish. Very bad.

Hijos de Rivera A Coruña, Galicia

0.33l bottle from Vrutak Krapinska, with Hrabren. Clear full golden body, thick off-white head, small, gone soon. Sweet worty aroma, bit fishy, sweet, honeyish. Lean, dry, somewhat crisp taste, with only a sweetish grainy-bready malty touch, and a hit of raisins, slightly worty overall to make up for it. Traces of a hoppy bitterness. I mean... nah. Why the hell is anyone importing this to Croatia with the local stuff being at least marginally better? Dunno, but thanks to them, I got a tick, so yay!

Binding-Brauerei (Radeberger Group) Frankfurt am Main, Hesse

500ml can. Cloudy yellow color. Sweet, pineapple, juicy, sugary, syrup in aroma/taste. Quite bad.

Poznań Brewery (Asahi) Poznan, Greater Poland

Canned, thx Ogi! Clear pale reddish body, oddly so, shiny, roséish, off-white head gone soon. Smells like... err... wild strawberry soda pop. Tastes like a sub-par malty dry beer someone tried to save with fake strawberry/randomberry fakeish aromas, oh and a bit yeasty-meaty and oxidized. Nah...

North Brewing Co (England) Leeds, West Yorkshire

--Sample, thanks oh6gdx! -- Clear purple, small pink head. Arima of mixed berries. Citric with medium body and clean mouthfeel. Citric acid, berry juice and, well not much else. No bitterness. Dull and meaningless.

TailGate Brewery Nashville, Tennessee

May 2024. Can from LCB. What he said four years ago.↓ Only not as savage. [2.0] July 2020. Can, filtered, from Beer52. This is shit. If you like weird flavoured beers, then you're gonna love this, but if you love beer then you're going to hate it. Smells like slightly burnt buttery popcorn. Tastes greasy and dark and bitter with hops battling it out with roasted barley and some artificial peanut butter flavour - it's very greasy, very messy, and very ugly. Each to their own, but this just a gimmick. Reminds me of the old Kitchen Sink Brewery in which each beer had some wild ingredient like carrots or cabbage thrown in just for the hell of it. This is not about beer craft, this is about the image and the idea and the marketing. Good beer is not made this way. But this is proving popular as there are loads of breweries falling over themselves to make a peanut butter stout. Lemmings, the cliff is that way..... [1.5]

Van Pur Warszawa, Masovian

Klare goldene Farbe mit weißer Schaumkrone. Getreidiger Geruch. Geschmacklich brutal wässrig, getreidig. Mittlere Süße mit leichter Bitterkeit, leichter Körper mit spürbarer Kohlensäure.

Browar Łomża (Van Pur) Łomża, Podlaskie

500 ml green bottle, from EKO Market, Stavanger. Clear golden colour, small white head. Strong aroma of grits, wort, baby porridge and over-boiled vegetables. The flavour is first slightly citric, then gritty and grainy, low bitterness. Won't buy again.

Castelain Benifontaine, Hauts-de-France

zapach intensywny, średnio przyjemny, słody, jasne, karmelowe, ciężkie, toporne, wyraźny alkohol, ciepła wódka, ale dość dobrej jakości, miód, skórka z chleba. kolor ciemnego bursztynu, klarowny, piana średnio obfita, mało trwała. w smaku pełne, ale nie za słodkie, jasne słody, kredki woskowe, mydło, karmel, skórki z jabłek, wyraźny, gorzki i mało ułożony alkohol, zwietrzałe zioła. goryczka umiarkowana, ostra, alkoholowa, kurzowa, zioła, łuski, krótka. w ustach mulące, rozgrzewające. nasycenie umiarkowane,

Heineken France (Heineken) Rueil-Malmaison, Ile-de-France

Sztuczna oranżada, czerwone owocki, słodkie, troche zamulające. Mogłoby być lepiej.

Hornburg Brewing Company Hancock, New Hampshire

Really autolyzed yeast. Would like to try the batch from last year rated by these 2 NH’er guys.