Fabrica de Bere Bună / Zăganu 500

500

 

Fabrica de Bere Bună / Zăganu in Măneciu-Ungureni, Sud - Muntenia, Romania 🇷🇴

  IPA - Triple Regular
Score
6.76
ABV: 10.0% IBU: 60 Ticks: 14
5th Anniversary Beer.

In the 1970s, in our village, Maneciu-Ungureni, Henri Coanda (the inventor of the jet engine) built and tested a suspended high-speed train that ran 500 km/h and was designed to travel the distance from Ploiesti to Bucharest (60km) in 8 minutes. His visionary experiment was a success, but it was cancelled by the authorities for lack of funds at the time. Today however, Coanda’s technology is being tested again and will be soon used. For Zaganu's 5th anniversary, we created a beer in his honor: an Imperial IPA called 500. A beer with 10% alcohol, with a strong malt back-bone, very hoppy and aromatic.
 

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7.1
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7.5

330ml bottle. Pours a fairly dark hazy orange colour with a beige head. Aroma of toffee, caramel malts, citrus, piney resinous hops. Taste is quite sweet and malty to start, caramel/toffee, marmalade, hops are resinous, piney, some citrus orange and grapefruit, perhaps faded somewhat as I'm drinking this close to its BBD. Medium bodied, on the lighter side for its strength, and very low carbonation.
Good but not great, would like to try a fresher bottle some time.

Tried from Bottle from Romanian Drinks on 26 Feb 2026 at 23:28


7.1
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 7.5 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7

Alkoholischer, dunkel karamellig-hopfiger Beginn. Spritzig, cremig, leichte Bitterkeit, süßlich. Würzig, langer Abgang, gut. 10/11/10/10//10

Tried from Bottle on 10 Apr 2025 at 10:54


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

From tap at Zăganu, Bucharest. Bit buttery diacetyl with resinous hop, sugary fruity notes. Pretty sweet with a long bitter alcoholic finish. Too sweet and buttery.

Tried from Draft on 24 Jan 2025 at 22:27


6

Sweet, sugary, caramel, malty, alcohol

Tried on 13 May 2024 at 16:51


6

Magus, karamelline, viinane, mõru, kuiv. Viin häirib, muidu selline ok vana koolikas.

Tried on 13 May 2024 at 16:33


7.2
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8

Bottle. Golden orange with white head. Aroma malt, followed by citrus hops, light red fruits. Taste, starts malty followed by fruit compot, citrus hops with oranges, zest, tangerines, unfortunatelly too much alcohol. I know 10%, but could be less recognizable. Still very good beer.

Tried from Bottle on 02 Jan 2023 at 20:48


6.9
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5


Bottle 330ml. @ Højbjerg Tasing [ Romania 🇷🇴 Comes to DK 🇩🇰 Tasting ] - Saxo House - Højbjerg.

[ As Zăganu 500 ].
ABV: 10.0%. Clear medium orange yellow colour with a average to large, frothy, good lacing, mostly lasting, off-white head. Aroma is moderate malty, pale malt, sweet malt, moderate hoppy, fruity hops, light dried fruit, strawberry - marmalade notes. Flavor is moderate sweet and bitter with a long duration, dried fruit, fruity hops, pale malt, sweet malt, sweet fruit - sweet hops (maybe the strawberry - marmalade stuff i get in aroma). Body is medium, texture is oily to watery, carbonation is soft. [20210320]
7-3-7-3-15

Tried from Bottle on 22 Mar 2021 at 14:18


7.1
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

Bottle @ Home. Pours slightly hazy amber with a white head. Aroma of malt, caramel, fruity hops, strawberry, citrus. Flavor is light sweet, rather bitter, malt, caramel, fruit, old hops, citrus. Medium body, average carbonation, dry and bitter finish. 210321

Tried from Bottle on 21 Mar 2021 at 10:40


6.9
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5

Frothy white fair mostly diminishing head. Amber colour. Moderate malty and light hoppy aroma. Moderate bitter flavor. Average moderate bitter finish. Oily palate.

Tried on 20 Mar 2021 at 13:21


6.9
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5

Bottle @Saxo. Nearly clear golden, offwhite head. Grapefruit and light caramel aroma. Caramely flavour, grapefruit, light floral, perfumy notes. Some alc heat in the finish. Rough in a nice way.

Tried from Bottle on 20 Mar 2021 at 13:19