Bavaria Pilsener

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

Commercially speaking, not in the same league as a Heineken, or a Becks. Monetarilly speaking, a cheap alternative. Pretty good hoppy taste for a small price. If your short of cash, this one will do in a pinch.

Paid 99 cents for a 12-oz single. Green bottle, some sort of undecypherable freshness code on back. Yellow. No head, even with a hard pour. Very Heiniken smelling- grassiness, slight skunk, nothing nice. Taste isn't bad- but it's not very good. Tastes like a combination of an American macro and Heiniken... a little grassy, nothing much else. I wouldn't recommend this beer to anyone. For 99 cents, it was worth it, I suppose, for trial purposes.

Bottled (BB 07/2004)
Typical lager outfit: yellow golden with foamy white head. Grassy aroma. Plain and simple with grassy hops and malty backbone.

To me this is pretty much a cheeper worst tasting Heineken. I’m not a big pilsner person anyway. This just makes it worse.

12 oz. bottle. Pours a golden color with a light white head. Standard malt flavor. A little airy and grassy. Light bodied and crisp. Not overly carbonated with an easy finish.

Aha! We have a king! Bavaria Pilsener, sovereign in a green can, ruler of all the cheap beers! I must say, this lager did nothing to tickle my fancy, but at the same time it didn’t make my face implode like most bitter, cheap lagers do. I remember when my friend burst into the apartment, proudly decreeing his purchase of “the ultimate” beer, holding aloft Bavaria Pilsener. The Frenchman (roommate) and I both gave a derisive chortle and gave the poor sap a sip of a superior brew. However, I think the amateur beer drinker had a point. Of all the cheap and disappointing beers I’ve had (mostly lagers) this is by far the most tolerable. It’s like saying, of all the nasty diseases a person could get like leprosy, typhoid, Chlamydia, gangrene and such, compared to them the flu seems downright peachy. I didn’t even look at the color because I was too busy feeling rebellious drinking straight from the can, but the smell was your simple lager smell. It sort of reminds me of beer in cooking; basic and smells like…beer. The taste is your typical cheap swill without the contrition and guilt that comes afterwards. If I wanted to have a second beer after a quality one, maybe this wouldn’t be so bad. Real guilt is having a good beer when you’re too drunk to appreciate it. So, for those late night college parties when the good liquor is gone, Bavaria Pilsener for pittance it is. I don’t intend to find myself in a situation like that anytime soon, though.

...big bottle. Cheap, decent hop notes, with slight malt flavor. Lacking body, but worth a try due to the low price. Good for binge drinking, hahaha.

Sweet, watery, basic. Quite an easy drinking, yet enjoyable lager. No real complaints.