Bavik Premium Export

Brewed by Bavik-De Brabandere
Style: Pale Lager
Harelbeke, Belgium

Serve in Dimpled mug, English pint, Lager glass, Shaker

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Bottle 33cl.
Clear medium yellow color with a average, frothy, good lacing, mostly lasting, white head. Aroma is moderate malty, grain, toasted, corn, paper, citrus. Flavor is moderate sweet and light to moderate acrid malt bitter with a average to long duration. Body is light to medium, texture is watery, carbonation is soft. [20090404]

An orange beer with a white head. The aroma is slightly sour with notes of straw. The flavor is sweet and sour with notes of straw, while the body is thin.

Bottle 33 cl. Courtesy of fonefan. Clear pale golden with a white head. Clean, malty nose. Medium body, clean malts, a little sulphur and a dry and bitter finish. Almost German in style. 040409

33 cL bottle. Pours clear and golden yellow with a small white head. Grassy hops aroma. Dry, grassy and mild malt flavoured. Bitter and dry finish - plain and simple.

Bottle, 5.0%. Weak dusty aroma. Hazy very pale yellow colour. Small stable white head. The flavour is quite thin. Has a faint hint of hay, and then there is just water. Watery finish as well.

A word about "Export" first. This disappearing style, used to be a variation on Pils. Usually less fermented (earlier pasteurisation) so the beer is sweeter and lower in ABV. But, in Belgium, the other main difference is that the beer is served in 33 cl, 'staid of the habitual 25 cl Pils. It has all but vanished, and most breweries today just fill 33cl of Pils. This is an exception. Dark gold; thick white, collapsing head, quite lacey. Herbal nose, even some hops - rest is predictably malty. Taste is sweet malt, clean & crisp. Faint corn taste. Slight slickness in mouthfeel, makes me think of corn again. Aftertaste gets more corn, as well as some sweet dough. As I said, apart from the hopnose, very predictable. It is very good in its style - but nowhere exciting.

Bottle, Brussels. Head is initially average sized, frothy, white, mostly diminishing. Body is hazy light yellow. Aroma is lightly malty (grain, cereal), lightly hoppy (herbs, flowers), with a light note of DMS. Flavor is moderately sweet, lightly bitter. Finish is lightly sweet, moderately bitter, husky. Light to medium body, watery texture, lively carbonation. Bah.

33cl, from the brewery, not complex brew, yet refreshing, balanced, clear, good head, simpel brew

UPDATED: DEC 4, 2007 Pours pale yellow w/ a decent head. Aromas of hay and skunky malts. Medium nectar w/ ample residual effers. Flavors are skunky and canny. I do however like the expansive texture of soft cloth on the palate that it creates. The finish is bittered mildly leaving a waxy fruit flavor to enjoy.

Clear yellow body with a small white head. Weak hoppy nose. Light flavor, taste like som stale hops.