SKOL Rwanda - SBL Virunga Gold

Virunga Gold

 

SKOL Rwanda - SBL in Kigali, City of Kigali, Rwanda 🇷🇼

  Lager - Imperial Pils Regular
Score
5.22
ABV: 6.5% IBU: - Ticks: 38
Virunga is the only true artisanal craft beer brand in Rwanda. Brewed by our Master Brewer for the connoisseurs of beer, who appreciate the art and the craftsmanship in brewing.

Named after the oldest national park in Africa, Virunga is produced in two variants, each at 6.5% Alcohol by volume: MIST – a dark aromatic ale with a rich and smooth taste; GOLD – a strong medium sweet pale lager.
 

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5.5

Country 141, Rwanda 🇷🇼 thanks to Graham B. for the trade, a nice, light one!

Tried from Bottle on 01 Jan 2023 at 00:52


5.5
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5

Bottle online from U & I Drinks, Hampshire. Pours clear golden with a white cap. Aroma: sweet malts, light caramel. Taste: light to moderate sweet & light bitter, light rich, malty, quite clean, some honey sweetness. Medium body with moderate carbonation. Better than expected.

Tried from Bottle on 22 Sep 2022 at 20:52


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5.3
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5

How: Bottle.
Where: Had at home.
Appearance: Golden colour with a white head.
Aroma: Sweet malt, hops, grass, grain.
Body: Light body, medium carbonation.
Flavour: Sweet malt, grain, some hops.

Tried from Bottle on 07 Sep 2022 at 08:38


5.1
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 3.5

Borrow ordered from U & I Drinks. Aroma has malts and caramel with damp cardboard streak. Copper gold. Clear. Thick fluffy foamy white head. Sweet. Very sweet. Canned fruit syrup and saccharine. Slightly sour edge with metallic boozy traces. Light-medium bodied. Slick. Soft-fizzy carbonation. Long slightly astringent finish. So normally I'd find something like this way too sweet and sickly but the sour bitter nudfe and booze take the edge off. Not great for sure but I can see why Rwandan tramps would drink. If the Tories deport me there it would certainly drown my sorrows.

Tried from Can on 01 Sep 2022 at 18:11


5.1
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 4.5

330ml bottle [courtesy of Grumbo - cheers Graham!]. Clear, orange golden colour with average, frothy, moderately lasting and lacing, white head. Initially slightly musty, grainy, strawy, pale malty aroma, hints of silage; becomes less musty and cleaner after a while, more grainy and minimally spicy overall, teh silage touch fades away. Taste is pale malty with a touch of corn, subtle sweetness, mild hop bitterness; slightly dry and minimally mineral finish. Minimally oily, watery texture, smooth and soft, simultaneously slightly dry palate, medium to fine, mildly prickly carbonation. Relatively full body, simple and rather clean after a while - had worse.

Tried from Bottle on 14 Jul 2022 at 20:11


5.2
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5


Bottle 330ml. @ [ Scooper Tasting ] - fonefan & Brugmansia House on the terrace - Biergarten. 🇩🇰 🏡 👨‍💻🍺

[ As Virunga Gold ].
ABV: 6.5%. ✅ Clear medium yellow colour with a average, frothy, good lacing, mostly lasting, off-white head. Aroma is moderate malty, pale malt, sweet malt, light hoppy, grass, moderate herbs. Flavor is moderate sweet and light bitter with a average duration. Body is medium, texture is oily to watery, carbonation is soft. [20220702]
5-3-5-3-10

Tried from Bottle on 03 Jul 2022 at 08:34


5.1
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 4.5

Bottle @Ulfborg. Clear golden, white head. Sweet malty aroma, light hoppy notes. Sweet flavour, malty with a herbal hoppy touch. Not the worst.

Tried from Bottle on 02 Jul 2022 at 09:38


4.8
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 5

Bottle @ fonefan tasting. Medium head with medium duration. Color is golden. Aroma and taste are malt, grain, hops, straw and has a nice warming finish.

Tried from Bottle on 02 Jul 2022 at 09:37


5.6
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5

Bottle @ Fonefan tasting. Clear golden with a small white head. Aroma is sweet, malty and light hoppy - herbal and grass. Flavor is medium sweet and moderate bitter. Dry and moderate bitter finish. 020722

Tried from Bottle on 02 Jul 2022 at 09:36


4.4
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 4.5

Light malty and hoppy aroma. ellow colour. Light bitter flavou. Short light bitter finish. Watery palate.

Tried on 02 Jul 2022 at 09:36