Veltins V+ Kola

Brewed by Brauerei C.& A. Veltins
Style: Spice/Herb/Vegetable
Meschede-Grevenstein, Germany

Serve in Lager glass, Tumbler

Bottle. 2,0%. Citric cola aroma. A bit darker than average cola with a very small head. Sweet aspartam flavour, almost solely cola with a sugary beer mouthfeel. Does not seem to contain aspartam, though.

Hey, this looks like it might be a deep, rich-bodied dunkel or something. But it’s not. It’s a bad joke. A marketing gimic. Smells and tastes like a home-made cola project gone bad. Not beer comes through. Why would anyone ever want to try this? I predict these types of beers will vanish: even the non-beer aficionado won’t drink this stuff twice. More importantly, how could the country that came up with the Reinheitsgebot produce such terrible crap? Shame on you, Veltins.

Nice dark brown red color with a small head on top. Smells like a Diesel- Cola with beer, what a suprise. Tastes cola like, not that sweet - pui - some hops and malt detecteble, but all in all it is like those cola gummi candies you can buy. Not as bad as expected.

Beer no.9 of my Slovenian beer hunt.
I’ve decided to go first with the freaks. Ah, well. This is 40% Pils and 60% Cola by the way ! It looks like a cola, brown cola head that went as fast as cola heads do. Smells like... cola ! Wasn’t that a surprise ? Malt too. You wouldn’t believe what it tastes like though..... why, cola of all things ! Well, like cola without the agressive fizz. Some very weak background malt and maybe hops... lemony of course. Well, I like cola, so it might get a better rating that it should’ve gotten. If you want an alcoholic cola, go for it.

(Can 50 cl) 60% pilsener and 40% lemon flavoured cola! Now, that’s a first... Chestnut coloured cola look with no head but a lot of fizz. Very sweet with a marked underlying biterness - overall the cola clearly dominates this "beer". But a rather inharmonious mongrel brew. But one good thing: Veltin sponsors Schalke 04. 280803

UPDATED: AUG 10, 2005 Grainy nose with strong notes of kola. Looks like a kola. Tastes like a kola. Feels like a kola. Its probably a kola! Perfect beer for my 1000th rating.

Can. Cola color with no head. The taste is very artificial cola. sweet and thin. Baah

Sickening. Sweet and artificial. Bad cola, bad "beer". Not as good as Coca-Cola. Too watery and thin. Not my kin of "beer".