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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5.8
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 5

6/5/2022. Bottle from U & I Drinks, Hampshire. Pours clear bright golden with a small bubbly/frothy white head. Good look to it. Aroma is sweet, malty, grainy, stewed fruits, caramel. Medium plus sweetness, moderate bitterness and body. Oily, average to soft carbonation. Above average African beer.

Tried from Bottle on 13 Jun 2022 at 13:04


5

Country #124 - Rwanda 🇷🇼 A bit strong and boozy. Thanks for another rare country Gus H.

Tried from Bottle on 01 May 2022 at 00:07


5.1
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 5.5

Sample thanks to Grumbo: Poured a clear golden with a frothy creamy off white head. Aroma is light fruity, banana, grain, citrus. Taste is grainy, banana, citrus, wet.

Tried on 30 Apr 2022 at 16:28


5
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 5

330ml bottle (6.4%), shared with blackhaddock at our rare country / region mega tasting afternoon. Clear gold pour with good white head. Quite strong, and certainly tastes a bit sweet and boozy with a poky alcohol bite, mouthfeel a touch oily. Overall too sweet and strong tasting.

Tried from Bottle on 27 Apr 2022 at 17:19


5.1
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5

26th April 2022. Mega tasting with minutemat, pushing our countries, regions and brewery stats higher. 33cl green bottle; BB 4th September 2022. Our second Rwandan beer of the session and third rating from the country (we join the top 50 rates of Rwandan beers!). Although a little sweet this golden beer was OK with it's grainy/malty feel countered by a little hop bitterness.

Tried from Bottle on 27 Apr 2022 at 05:29


4.8
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 5

Sample courtesy of Grumbo, cheers Graham! Clear golden colour, white foam head and aroma of malt, grains. Taste is sweetish, malty, grains, sugary, papery, with some grassy bitterness. Light bodied, high foamy carbonation, drying grassy bitter finish. Kind of OK

Tried on 23 Apr 2022 at 10:28


5

Rwanda 🇷🇼

Tried from Bottle on 05 Feb 2022 at 18:11


6.4
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5

First proper beer from Rwanda. Golden beer, small head. Aroma is malt, grain, sweet. Taste is the same, sweet, bitter, grain. Average lager.

Tried on 05 Feb 2022 at 17:08


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

Bottled. Clear golden, small head. Fruity nose with some grass. Mid sweet with medium to full body and rounded mouthfeel. Dough and sweaty grass. Low to medium bitterness. Solid.

Tried from Bottle on 19 Jul 2019 at 15:33


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

Clear, deep golden to copper colored, medium white frothy head, nice lacing, not too lasting. Aroma is malty, caramel and sugary, some corn, light cardboard, bit grassy hops. Taste is medium sweet malt, caramel, some sweet corn notes, white sugar, light+ grassy bitterness, bittersweet finish. Medium bodied, soft carbonation, bit creamy. Seems like sugar disguised in beer but the cleanest thing here... (bottle)

Tried from Bottle on 05 Sep 2017 at 12:53