Bavik Premium Pils

Brewed by Bavik-De Brabandere
Style: Pilsener
Harelbeke, Belgium

Serve in Flute, Footed Pilsner

Bottle. Pours an average yellow with an aroma of skunked pils malt and a light tought of wet hops. Flavor is dried and skunked hops with a light earthy malt fnish. Average mouthfeel. Middle of the road.

Pours clear gold into a shaker. Bright white head with medium retention recedes leaving spider lacing. Sour biscuit aromas. Dry with sweet caramel and sour hay upfront turning to bitter, earthy sour bread in the lasting finish.

Clear blond body. White head, fair lace, quite fastly diminishing. Slightly smokey, slightly hoppy aroma. Bitter, lightly sweet flavour. Slightly astringent.

11.2 ounce bottle. Pours a pale gold with a small white head. Mild aroma of grain, malt and hops. Taste is light malt and a bit of hops. OK.

Pale watery yellow with a white head. Not much on the nose, malts, bread, faint hops. Super thin palate, watery malts, not much going on here

Just a touch cloudy, pale yellow with a small white head. Aroma of bready malt, straw, and mild citrus. The taste is grain with a little bit of citrus. Light bodied, with average carbonation, and dryness, but not much else to the finish. Compared to pale lagers on the whole, this is a pretty good beer, but compared as a pilsner, it just doesn’t do very well.

33cL bottle, $1.30 single at Binny’s. Pretty pale for a pils, I think. Very pale yellow and a little cloudy. Smell has some oxidation to it, unavoidable in most imported light brews. Taste is a little overly sweet, and lacks a defining hop bitterness. True, I wouldn’t kick out of a cooler on a hot summer night. But this just shows the perils of importing delicate lagers.

Can from kegs and barrels. Pours a dull yellow with a thin white head. The aromas are bread, skunk, lemon. The mouthfeel is watery with a alight bitterness and medium body. Cheers!