330ml bottle [Thanks Aziz for this one and thereby supplying me with the whole range of Brakina brews!]. Clear, yellow-ish golden colour with small to average, thick, frothy to creamy, half-way lasting, minimally lacing, white head. Slighty earthy-musty, grainy and strawy aroma. Taste is minimally sweet pale malty, minimally strawy and grainy, slightly bitter, hoppy counterweight with grassy, mineral and even floral touch; Probably the most accurate, cleanest Brakina Pale Lager.

Burkina’s version of Flag, thanks Ruben for bringing me a large bottle of this beer all the way from Ouagadougou... Slow gushing (the first time I ever see this in a pale lager!), medium thick, moussy, quickly thinning, snow white head, clear and deep (almost ’old’) golden colour with lively sparkling. Weak aroma, hints of dry breakfast cereals and soggy chicken corn, iron, straw, dust, old cardboard. Neutral taste, grainy with only a very low degree of corn sweetishness, thin and slightly oily mouthfeel, bit metallic, medium carbo (on the soft side for this style). A faint grassy touch shows up in the end, only very mildly bittering. Actually I expected worse: this is as neutral a lager as it gets, but at least it does not contain too much disturbing corn sweetness which is omnipresent in standard pale lagers throughout the world; I can imagine drinking this ice cold under a searing African sun can be adequately quenching. Drinkable, if you do not expect anything else than that.

65cl dans un maquis de Ouagadougou. Bière typique dans ce que ce style veut faire et qui est elle aussi sauvée par l’ajout de sucre de maïs , comme toujours une fine amertume et un profile malt qui sont réduit au minimum. Pas mauvais par les grandes chaleurs, sans plus.

Bottled. Pale yellow, small head. A light hint of lemon in the nose. Hard and clean mouthfeel. Light bodied with low bitterness. No obvious flaws, but also no obvious qualities.