Classy golden can with nice horse logo in the bus home from Brussels. Sweet malts, bitter raw green beans and sugar. Medium sweet and light bitter. Under medium body, average carbonation. Bitter sweet malty finish. --- Beer merged from original tick of Karlsquell Edel-Pils on 18 Dec 2017 at 16:38 - Score: 4. Original review text: 2.2 --- Beer merged from original tick of Karlsquell Edel Pils on 03 Sep 2016 at 19:30 - Score: 4. Original review text: Classy golden can w/nice horse logo in the bus home from Brussels. Sweet malts, bitter raw green beans & sugar. Medium sweet & light bitter. Under medium body, average carb. Bitter sweet malty finish.

Can as Buval, road soda in FlixBus bought at Brussels North nightshop. I used to play in a band that had a song about the original Karlsquell beer, let’s see if this lives up to that. Drank from the can which looks like a fake Jupiler one, I guess the beer is pale golden but who knows! Some sweet malts, dusty herbs, light puke, metallic, corn, rice. Almost medium sweet with light bitter finish. About medium bodied. Another quality Martens product. No need to write a song about it.

330 ml. can sampled as Buval XD. Purchased @ Aldi. BBF 13/11/16. Clear pale golden, chemical paper-white fizzy head that is almost instantly gone. Nose is hugely mineral, touch vegetable stock, cooked vegetables & cooked apple. Taste is very watery, fizzy, washing powder, cardboard, hugely mineral, finish is this unpleasant thin lingering chemical bitterness. Hugely watery & fizzy. I am honestly rather surprised that a beer that tastes & feels thin watery and thin is actually 5 % ABV. Finish is not pleasant at all, none of the tastes are palatable. You know why this exists & you know why people buy, any tasting notes other than my baby sips didn’t make me blind are pointless (the intended crow is never going to read this review).

Nahezu wässriger Antrunk, in dem mit viel Fantasie....auch nichts erkennbar ist. Ab dem hellen Mittelteil getreidig, süßlich, so etwas wie Herbe. Dies steigert sich im Nachgeschmack, so dass man vorsichtig "würzig" schreiben kann. 6/5/7/7/4/6

Next to Hopvil, the Aldi supermarkets also sell this 5% ABV lager now called Buval, but it is apparently an alias of Karlsquell Edel-Pils, under which name it was previously sold. Very cheap lager from a 33 cl (’Belgian export’), red can with a bold eagle depicted on it, no idea why, but there seems to be a horse version as well, which has now raised a lawsuit initiated by the bankers of AB InBev, who find the looks of the new Buval can too similar to those of their beloved Jupiler (perhaps they are just trying to make money from a lawsuit in order to buy SAB Miller?). Rather thin but quite stable, very pale greyish white, nicely lacing head over a very pale, cristal clear beer with slight greenish hue and a steady stream of bubbles rising up. Very, very weak aroma, which nevertheless reveals that this one is doubtlessly less ’pure’ than Hopvil; malt extracts are almost certainly there, and I suspect corn too. I do not get much else: something very vaguely sourish (sourdough - perhaps the use of wheat extract?), wet newspaper, grass, iron, but all very, very faint; I guess you’d have to let this warm up to room temperature to get more aroma, but this is probably not a good idea in this case (or in the case of nearly all pale lagers, as a matter of fact). The taste is strangely a bit less neutral than Hopvil’s, but that does not mean ’better’: there is that dull corn sweetishness, present in so many cheap lagers from around the world, fading away towards the end, with almost no discernible hop bitterness for balance; there is a ’microscopic’ trace of grassy hops somewhere in the finish, but otherwise this beer finishes primarily watery, with the same powdery ’starch effect’ I experienced in Hopvil. Mouthfeel is thin and a little bit metallic, slightly oily, with strong carbonation, though less so than in Hopvil. Clearly the lesser of the two in terms of concept and ingredients, but still drinkable for what it is.

Can @ Hotel Adagio, Caen, France. Pours dark yellow with a white head. Aroma of malt grain, grass, little metalnotes. Flavor is malt, grain, little sweet, little hay. Medium body, average carbonation. 050814

Can. Pours clear golden . Aroma is malty. Taste is a bit watery, little hoppy.

Vacation 2013 @ Virton, Belgium. 33 cl. can @ the bungalow.

Straw yellow with a white head. Sweet grainy aroma and taste. Hollow and flat.

Pils nawet udany jak na marketowy dyskontowy wyrob. Piana najlepsza i trwala jest. Piwo o chmielnym smaku chc lekkie w odbiorze bezcukrowe. I umiarkowanie smaczne, troche rozwodnione.