Bavaria Pilsener

Brewed by Bavaria Brouwerij (Netherlands)
Style: Premium Lager
Lieshout, Netherlands

Serve in Lager glass

Pours a sparkling clear gold with tons of rising bubbles and a loose, frothy white head that diminishes quickly. Decent lacing. Skunk on the initial pour; shocker given the green glass. Given time, however, the aroma clears to reveal a lightly sweet macro-esque lager nose with just a whisper of dry grass in the background. Light-bodied and slick with a dry, lightly bitter and somewhat metallic finish. A sweet malt front with a lightly bitter end that lingers far too long for my liking. For a lager, it’s not awful, but it certainly doesn’t inspire me to drink another.

Can from LCBO. Yellow body with a small white head. Odd aroma is strangely floral hops, with light alcohol and hint of not so fresh grains. Bland flavour is muted sweet macro grains, light doughy bread notes. Average to thin palate. Not awful but not particularly good either. 5/3/4/3/9

Bottled. Pale blonde with a thin head. Aroma of grains. Watery, lightly malty, with a strong industrial feeling. Not good.

This is unexciting. It’s not exactly objectionable but it’s nothing I would buy again. It about Heniken level.

UPDATED: SEP 18, 2007 Un bicchiere assaggiato a pasto (lasagne al forno); che noia! Uguale a centinaia di altre lager europee.______________ENGLISH TEXT HERE______________A glass tasted at lunch (lasagne al forno); a boring beer, the same as many other lagers.

UPDATED: NOV 15, 2007 Another bottle, to edit quite simple rating:
0,25l bottle which poured golden colored body with thick creamy head. Quite typical lager aroma of bread and citrus hops with light malts. Nice flavor, quite full bodied for the style with low bitterness... moderately carbonated, relatively oily textured. Good palate, with nice relatively long finish. Nothing too special but surely one of the best commercial pale lagers.

15-Aug-07 (12 oz bottle: BevMo in La Jolla, CA) Dark straw in color with a slight haze, but even immediately after the pour, barely any carbonation bubbles rise through the beer. So, not an especially impressive appearance to this beer, but it does have a white, rocky, fluffy head that leaves plenty of lace near the top of the glass. Grainy, vaguely bready malt aroma doesn’t provide much inspiration to take a sip. The bready malts taste fairly sweet and become almost honey-like on the palate toward the finish, but a bit of stale, papery flavor comes through in the finish as well. Hops makes the mildest of contributions in the attack, but then quickly and totally disappears in the evolution, and without that mild bitterness, the beer doesn’t have a pleasant aftertaste. Light-medium in body and carbonation, but lacking the crisp, clean flavor and mouthfeel one expects from a premium lager. Overall, this premium lager lacks a quality malt flavor, needs a more balanced finish, and is simply way too sweet to be taken seriously. Won’t buy this again.

(Bottle) Pours a yellow color with a white fizzy head. Sweet aroma. Some hops, but in general the taste is pretty muted... like many Euro lagers. All in all, nothing to exciting.