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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3.9
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 3 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 2.5

Pours a clear, golden color, topped with a medium white head. OK retention and a bit creamy. Grassy nose wit hsome dusty feel to it. Slightly sweet scent. Very sweet malty and fruity body, not much else going on in there. Almost like a radler feel, with sugar and some lemony, grassy presence. Way too sweet and sugary, and in general not nice.

Tried on 14 Sep 2016 at 12:57


5
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 3

33cl bottle from Nakumatt supermarket, Kigali / Rwanda 🇷🇼. Smooth sweetish beginning. Hints of grain, hints of alcohol. Moderate grainy with sweetish sticky alcoholic hints.

Tried from Bottle on 08 Jun 2016 at 13:28


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

Bottle split at Cotts Convention ii, thanks to team Cotts, 05/03/16. Clear golden blonde with a decent off white cap. Nose is pale malt, grain, straw, cereals. Taste comprises light caramel, toasted grain, pale malt, raw sugar. Medium bodied, fine carbonation, semi drying close. Average but not the worst for an obscure country.

Tried from Bottle on 08 May 2016 at 09:13


4

Tried on 16 Mar 2016 at 18:02


2.5
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 2 | Flavor - 2 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 1

Bottle thanks to the Cotteridge Wines guys at the 2016 Cotteridge Convention. It pours yellow - gold with a medium white head. The nose is sweet, grainy, lots of paper and cereal. The taste is sweet, sticky, sugary, corn, candy, green veg and cereal with a sweetish finish. Medium body and moderate carbonation. I thought this was pretty bloody awful. Sweet and rotten.

Tried from Bottle on 16 Mar 2016 at 14:44


3.9
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 3 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 3.5

Bottle at CWC II; clear golden yellow pour with a creamy white head, very sweet aroma, taste has sweet cereal grain, some skunky action, meh.

Tried from Bottle on 09 Mar 2016 at 07:32


5.2
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 5

Bottle shared at the Cotteridge Convention - 2016 edition. Cheers! Pours clear gold with a tight, creamy white head. The nose has light cabbage and cereal. Medium to heavy sweet flavour, with sugary pale bread, white sugar. Light to medium bodied with average carbonation. Sugary finish, with more white bread and simple sugars. So so.

Tried from Bottle on 06 Mar 2016 at 16:47


3.1
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 3 | Flavor - 3 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 1.5

Cotteridge 2 tasting. Clear gold lasting white head. Not a great aroma horrible lager aroma. Terrible.

Tried on 05 Mar 2016 at 10:06