Bavik Dinner Beer Faro
Brouwerij De Brabandere in Bavikhove, West Flanders, Belgium 🇧🇪
Non Alcoholic / Low Alcohol Regular|
Score
4.97
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5.3/10
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Appearance 5
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 5
Overall 6
25cl bottle, actually drunk whilst cooking dinner (salmon and spinach wellington). Pours a very dark brown, no head. Not as sweet as some faros.. quite light bodied, hints of cola, brown sugar, nutty interludes.. very light and easygoing. Ok.
Tried
from Bottle
from
Vanuxeem
on 21 Sep 2025
at 07:16
5.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 5
Bottle@Monks Cafe, Wallingatan. Reddish brown colour with a small off-white creamy head. Aroma is roasted, some rye bread, mild burnt sugary tones with some slight earth. Flavour is roasted malts, some burnt sugar, a bit herbs, grains and some toasted tones too. Quite close to Finnish kotikalja.
Tried
from Bottle
on 14 May 2024
at 19:21
5.3/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 5
Dark brown color. Grainy, somewhat sugary aroma. Sweet flavor, a bit fruity (pear) and sugary. Resembles a Dutch oud bruin. Clean palate, no by-flavors. Thin and watery. Refreshing when served cold, you couldn’t ask for more if you are drinking a low alcohol beer.
Tried
on 26 Aug 2019
at 12:07
4.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 4
Flavor 4
Texture 4
Overall 5
25cl bottle courtesy of Erzengel! A dark reddish brown beer with a small most good lasting beige head. Aroma of soft red fruits, dark sweet malt, caramel. Taste of sweet dark malt, sugar, molasses, caramel. 4-3-4-2-10
Tried
from Bottle
on 20 Oct 2017
at 13:37
5.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 4
Overall 5
Bottle @ weekly tasting shared with Dutchdrebus. Nice dark red-brown color with an average sized off-white head. Smell and taste malts, metal, sweet, sugar, brown sugar. Like too sweet coca cola without carbonation. Still, as a table beer -and that is apparently what it is intended to be- it’s not bad.
Tried
from Bottle
on 09 Jul 2015
at 14:50
4.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 4
Flavor 4
Texture 4
Overall 3.5
Bottle @ benzai. Brown colour with a small beige head. Smells malt, sugary and cardboard. Tastes sugar and malts. It also tastes like watered down cola. Aquired taste i guess. Thin body, soft carbo.
Tried
from Bottle
on 09 Jul 2015
at 14:48
6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 6
330 ml. bottle shared with Kraddel. Picked up for me from a monastery that is open to secular retreats. Apparently this a table beer that monks drink, brewed to their old recipe more or less. Blackish chestnut / copper dark brown, tanned head that quickly disappears. Nose iron, syrup, Coca-Cola syrup, cheap sticky malts, varnish, chocolate sauce. Taste is very sweet & reminiscent of coca-cola, lots of sweeteners, syrup like Coca-Cola / Pepsi, bread, sugar, very sweet, very cheap chocolate syrup. Body is akin to Coca-Cola / Pepsi / syrupy. Compared to a soft drink this is decent but as beer it is pretty worthless. I do think that they were going more for a soft drink than a beer.
Tried
from Bottle
on 01 Dec 2014
at 01:42
4.8/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 4
Overall 5
The brown one in this locally distributed range of old-fashioned, almost shy table beers, with crispy, deep beige, quickly dissolving head and very dark chestnut colour with ruby hue. Weak malt aroma, some bitter chocolate, caramel and coffee grounds, candi sugar and perhaps a very faint hint of hops. Very light, almost neutral malt taste, sweetish, bit candi-like, metallic, flowery, thin and watery as any table beer, without any finish to speak of. Nothing extraordinary, typical (very) low profile like any old people’s table beer and in that respect serving its purpose without further ambition, but I liked the blonde a little bit better.
Tried
from Can
on 12 Aug 2014
at 13:20