Buval Rouge
Martens in Bocholt, Limburg, Belgium 🇧🇪
Lager - Flavoured Regular|
Score
5.16
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Alengrin (11675) reviewed Buval Rouge from Martens 1 week ago
Appearance - 3 | Aroma - 1 | Flavor - 0.5 | Texture - 1 | Overall - 1
The 'rouge' hype of red candy flavoured, extremely sweet and simple beers in Belgium has even reached the Aldi supermarket chain meanwhile - and after having tasted thousands of beers, including some of the best in the world, a darker side of me still silently remains on the lookout for the "worst beer in the world" as well. So what can be worse than the "rouge van den Aldi", right? Thick and frothy, off-white (but vaguely pinkish-tinged), coarse, 'Brugse kant'-like lacing head - I must admit the heads on rouges are often pleasing and that is where it all stops; crystal clear coral red robe rather than deep ruby red, but red alright. Aroma of red Haribo candy as usual, cotton candy, the old familiar 'poepkens' of course, a candy version of orange peel somehow, red bubblegum, rubber, cheap industrial perfume, motor oil somewhere. Utterly sugary onset as expected - the watery form of red candy ('poepegatjes' indeed), sticky yet thin, annoying throughout in a very 'loud' and blatant way; red candy sugar or red bubblebum further dominates everything else so there are no 'phases' of flavour, everything remains as monotonously red candy-like as it can be, with even a more chemical, motor oil-like aspect to it than is the case in some of the other great masterpieces in this 'genre'; indeed I must admit that in comparison with Kasteelbier Rouge, the one that made it all happen in Flanders (rouge was already spreading in Wallonia and northern France before that one saw the light of day), this version feels significantly inferior, more chemical, less 'full', more industrial. Never thought I would say this, but apparently there are quality levels even within this infernal 'rouge' genre. I think this one almost equals Average Rob's Tout Bien Rouge, another lowpoint in Belgian brewing history and also produced by 'independent bad beer factory' Martens, but I am inclined to assume that it had to be produced even more cheaply for the stern commissioner in question - the famed budget supermarket - and that the net result is therefore even lower class than the rest. I hate these 'rouges' in general, but this one must be the worst of them all so far... I can only rate this expression of bad taste and cheapness when thinking of the very worst beers I ever had - and those are engraved in my memory just as deeply as the very best - coming to the sobering conclusion that we are indeed very close to rock bottom here. There is, or has been, very little on the market worse than this chemical, sugar-ridden, unfathomably cheap and simplistic abomination - even for a rouge, which is horrible as a concept 'tout court', this Buval version manages to painfully underperform. Never thought that was even possible - in any case this thing belongs to the very worst 'beers' I ever had.
Kraddel (15872) reviewed Buval Rouge from Martens 9 months ago
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 4.5 | Flavor - 4.5 | Texture - 5 | Overall - 3.5
Pours clearish, pinkwhite head. Scent is 'poepegattekes' but even a bit more chemical. Taste is sweet, very 'hollow'. A lot of 'poepegattekes' artificial cherry-like candy sugary syurp filth. Some relatively high carbonation lifts it up, and hides the truly stickyness underneath - which does tend to take over later on, and reveal it's awefullness in full towards the aftertaste - sticky sugary chemical syrup madness.