Becker's 8.0 Super Strong

Rating No. 17800 Canned 500ml. -from Geant Albertville as Brauperle Strong 8.0%. Darker golden coloured, medium sized off-white head, caramel in the nose. Sweet malty, green apple, caramel and light alcohol with rather sweet finish.

50cl can from a French supermarket - thanks, mom & dad. As 'Brauperle 8.0'. Clear golden with a thin, white head. 'Aroma' of corn syrup, white bread, Haribo candy, plastic, glue, spicy toothpaste. Taste has very sweet malt, corn, corn syrup, pineapple candy with a weird plastic edge and a bitter metallic 'zing' (probably can iron). Long, sweet, cloying finish, sticking to the back of the throat, weirdly astringent too due to that candy & plastic effect, but also due a boozy dash of cheap white rum-like alcohol. Light to medium body, slick-sticky texture, fizzy carbonation. Very hard to drink, which is an achievement in itself. I'm not okay with this!

Pure golden coloured body with a lightish amber and copper glow and a thinnish pure white head. Aroma of wheat, light malts, a touch of caster sugar, some very mellow alcohol notes and a dose of citrus and pure grassiness. Light-bodied throughout; Strong alcohol and relatively astringent flavours up front with a light dose of caster sugar, more strong cardboardie and herbal malts with a touch of both extra alcohol and extra sugar and syrupy sweetness behind. Aftertaste shows the alcohol and malt way up front, but after that, a light sweetness and punch from the residual and unfinished fermentation with some wheat and soft cardboardie malt notes and only a touch of complexity at the end, and all from the malts and alcohol with nothing sweet nor complex towards the finish. Overall, a decent enough beer that shows the malt and grass flavours with a little bit of sweetness and a dose of hay and funk towards the end. Nice to sample, but not a beer worth trying when there are many other options Unfortunately here - there aren't. I sampled this 50 cL can purchased a few minutes ago from Champion [supermarche] in [downtown] Papeete, Tahiti, French Polynesia on 01-August-2019 for XPF380 sampled a few minutes later at my hotel here in Papeete.

F: medium, white, not long lasting. C: gold, clear. A: malty, bready, bit caramel, alcohol, fruity. T: watery caramel, bit bready, fruity, medium body and lower carbonation, weak bitterness, this is not good, ok for thick not for drink, 0,5l can as “Brauperle 8.0 Super Strong / Extra Forte” from Easy Market - Prince Hinoï in Papeete, French Polynesia.

Can. Pours a clear golden color with a small white head. Has a fruity malty grainy spicy aroma. Fruity malty sweetish spicy grainy flavor. Has a sweetish malty grainy spicy metallic finish.

Sweetish malty brew. Sticky sweetish, round and fresh. More malty grainy sweetish alcohol than crisp and bitterness. Sweetish-sticky aftertaste with grain. As I expected.