500
Fabrica de Bere Bună / Zăganu in Măneciu-Ungureni, Sud - Muntenia, Romania 🇷🇴
IPA - Triple Regular|
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6.76
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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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LazyPyro (10170) reviewed 500 from Fabrica de Bere Bună / Zăganu 1 month ago
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.
Koelschtrinker (42759) reviewed 500 from Fabrica de Bere Bună / Zăganu 1 year ago
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
tricksta_p (13806) reviewed 500 from Fabrica de Bere Bună / Zăganu 1 year ago
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.
Marduk (26455) ticked 500 from Fabrica de Bere Bună / Zăganu 1 year ago
Sweet, sugary, caramel, malty, alcohol
mart (27261) ticked 500 from Fabrica de Bere Bună / Zăganu 1 year ago
Magus, karamelline, viinane, mõru, kuiv. Viin häirib, muidu selline ok vana koolikas.
cuso (17277) reviewed 500 from Fabrica de Bere Bună / Zăganu 3 years ago
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.
fonefan (85107) reviewed 500 from Fabrica de Bere Bună / Zăganu 5 years ago
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
Camons (21701) reviewed 500 from Fabrica de Bere Bună / Zăganu 5 years ago
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
HenrikSoegaard (22027) reviewed 500 from Fabrica de Bere Bună / Zăganu 5 years ago
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.
martin00sr (12451) reviewed 500 from Fabrica de Bere Bună / Zăganu 5 years ago
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.