Bavaria Pilsener

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

(bottle - 12 oz) Clear gold color with a fizzy white head. Aroma is bitter and majorly skunky. Flavor is sweet and malty with some hay and incredibly bitter hops at the start. Finishes sweet and relatively smooth. Just hard to get past the skunky smell.

Can. Pale golden colour with a white head. Aroma is malt, fruit, grain. Flavour is sweet, malt, hay, fruit, grain. Boring beer.

Medium coarseish white head. Yellow body with light carbonation. Malty straw aroma with apple notes. Dry mealy papery straw taste with apple notes. Mid-bodied. Smoothish mouthfeel. Dryish papery caramelly straw aftertaste. Smooth and clean. Dryish papery caramelly straw aftertaste. Bland, inoffensive. (0.5l can, Duke’s, Victoria, Gozo.)

Bottle with MaltDawg on 08/16/2008 or sometime shortly afterward since these ratings were lost for a half a year. I only wrote down Bavaria - Holland in my notes, so hopefully this is the correct beer. Clear golden body with a medium frothy white head. Sweet corn, pilsener and honey malt aroma with some skunk. Honey malt and corn flavor. Medium light body with moderately high carbonation.

Typical Holland beer, when will they learn? It’s all the same beer under different labels.

Bottle. Pours a clear gold color. Nothing too special. Aroma is malts, grass, corn, and grains. Flavor is kind of earthy, skunk, and malts.

500 mL Can. This one poured very lively and very frothy; it may not have had enough time to settle from a wipe-out I had on an ice patch on the way out from the store (a later visitation revealed a scanty white head that again left good lacing on the sides). Grainy aroma with a grassyness about it and a very faint note of grapefruit. The taste is light sweet malt with relatively little aftertaste followed by a clean finish. A very light bodied beer, the flavor is a bit shy but I wouldn’t call it watery by any means. Quite smooth in the mouth. Best suited for hot summer beer-drinking. There are lots of more expen$ive beers that get a lesser, and sometimes VERY LESSER rating. Brownie points for good value.

Can. (as Tesco Premium Lager, 5%) A clear, slightly pale golden beer topped by a small, white head. Grainy and malty on the nose, quite sweetish, with a touch of fruits. Malty-sweet, grainy and quite weak flavor with a quite pleasant bitterness. The bitterness is actually the best part of this beer, else it’s too grainy and sweet, also in the finish. Medium body. Decent, and sort of quenching even though it’s on the sweet side. Don’t see any reason to re-visit though. (081220)