5.3

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

Gecorrigeerde review van 20 october 2022.

Blik van de lokale supermarkt. Goudgeel helder bier met schuim dat snel wegzakt. Smaak is vrij licht met iets van graan en wat vanille of iets ander zoets. Het geeft in elk geval een heel goed gevoel om tijdens het drinken tegelijk een, alhoewel zeer bescheiden, bijdrage aan de hulp te leveren.

6.6

Appearance - 9 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 5.5 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7

Can., Wysoka ocena za wyglad, mialem na mysli puszke bardziej niz piwo, A plyn wyglada tak, zolta jaskrawa barwa, niczym jedna z barw flagi narodowej Ukrainy. Piana srednia, ale trwala, niczym ta okrutna wojna. Pacnie zbozowymi ciasteczkami, lekko slodowe, chmiel niezbyt uchwytny

5.1

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5

Im Glas findet sich klares, helles Goldgelb wieder. Passend feine Perlage steigt hoch. Die weiße, feinporige Schaumkrone ist dabei wässerig-flaumig und hält mäßig gut. Die Duftaromatik verhält sich sehr neutral. Man nimmt bis auf eine leicht staubige Malzote keine Aromen wahr. Im Antrunk vernimmt man leicht getreidige Malznoten, sowie malzige und fruchtige Süße. Am Gaumen durchaus angenehm, leicht getreidig bis brotig malzig, mäßig würzig und ganz leicht heuig hopfig. Sehr einfach, aber durchaus rund und ohne Fehler. So ergeben sich ein akkurates Mundgefühl und eine Süffigkeit, die ebenfalls ganz in Ordnung sind. Im Nachtrunk fällt die Aromatik sehr rasch ab und es bleibt eine ganz zarte trocken wirkende Hopfennote über. Fazit: Sehr einfach, aber voll okay! Es muss nicht immer komplex sein.

5.4

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

4.6

Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 3.5 | Flavor - 4.5 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 5

One of the Ukraine's standard industrial lagers, owned by AB InBev, which now sells it outside of the country as well - with the profits going to "Ukrainian relief". Can from a local Delhaize supermarket here in Belgium, actually disclosing that the beer is actually brewed in Belgium (and I know it is Leuven) - indeed this is the brewing concern boasting that they can brew any of their beers in any of their breweries all around the world. Makes we wonder if a separate entry should be made for this version or not, but I will happily leave it to the admins to sort that out. I haven't had the Ukraine-brewed version so I am unable to compare if this Leuven-brewed version is identical with the original, let us give this matter the benefit of the doubt and assume that it is. Medium thick, rather irregular, snow white, cobweb-lacing, opening but generally retaining head, crystal clear pure 'metallic' golden blonde robe with big bubbles of carbon dioxide rising up from the bottom. Weak aroma of corn bread, Cracottes, the water from a can of corn, plaster, papier maché, wet white paper, some iron, very vague honey and a faint note of grass. Cereally sweet, very clean onset, the corn sweetishness immediately coming up strong, followed by a faint note of actual bready barley; medium carb, some light metallic aspects but not overly so, bit glueish but rounded mouthfeel. Cereally sweetishness throughout, very simplistic, ending with only the faintest note of grassy hop bitterishness, lingering a little bit on the root of the tongue - but you will need to taste it with great attention to notice it. Corn water lingers, but so does this very thinly bready barley malt aspect; generally though, also because of the carbonation being below average for a standard pale lager, the whole ends a tad watery. That said, I was expecting much worse to be honest: in fact there are less 'chemical' flavour aspects here than in many of the other mass-marketed standard pale lagers AB InBev has in its portfolio of highly industrialized 'beers', and that includes Stella and Jupiler. I am even inclined to say that I would prefer this one over those two Belgian alternatives; in any case this Chernigivske has a somewhat different, fuller, sweeter and very subtly more malt-forward profile, so contrary to what I was fearing, it indeed seems to be brewed according to the recipe they normally use, instead of filling these cans with Stella or Jupiler out of laziness. It is what it is, a standard pale lager like there are thirteen (or in fact many more) in a dozen, but compared with both the Western European pale lagers AB InBev produces and the other ones available in the Ukraine (think Obolon), this is better than expected. I can only hope that this capitalist monster of a company keeps its promise and effectively sends its profits to the war-torn Ukraine!