kajser27 (3009) reviewed Gatanu from SKOL Rwanda - SBL 10 years ago
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 2 | Flavor - 2 | Texture - 2 | Overall - 2.5
Yellow colored, weak white head. Aroma is malts and corn. Taste is sweet corn and some malt, bready. Sometimes cardboard, sometimes green apples. No bitterness. Thin, watery body. Same recipe as Skol but this one has about 30-40% corn instead of being all malt. As is the case with most African beer this has almost no hops added because "the African market doesn’t want bitterness in beer". Coming directly from the recipe creator.
ogivlado (19466) reviewed Gatanu from SKOL Rwanda - SBL 11 years ago
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 3 | Flavor - 3 | Texture - 2 | Overall - 3
Bottled 330ml. -Ok, I’m the first here. Clear yellow coloured, medium sized airy white head, low carbonation, dusty bready lemony nose. Weak malty, cereals and slight bready with short flat finish. Also some faint bitterness. Typical African lager.
Marko (22181) reviewed Virunga Mist from SKOL Rwanda - SBL 11 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 4
Enormous thanks to Bojan (kajser27) for bringing this from Rwanda! This lager, coloured with caramel, poured a cola/brown body with an off white head. Eh. Smelled a little tart, kinda like white wine, only a little grainy perhaps. Miild notes of nougat and caramel are drowned in the otherwase watery taste. Well... not off, but hardly thrilling and strange in a way.
ogivlado (19466) reviewed Virunga Mist from SKOL Rwanda - SBL 11 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 4.5
Bottled 330ml. -Clear amber coloured, small beige head, caramel in the nose. Not so sweet malty, light grainy and caramel with notes of dried fruits, light cardboard and subdued alcohol. All in all drinkable.
Travlr (30173) reviewed Virunga Mist from SKOL Rwanda - SBL 11 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 3
Bottle at DC Epic Sour Tasting 2014, courtesy of the Rwanda Mission, thank you ladies! Gorgeous bright ruby amber color, white head. Extra points also for a terrific looking bottle that has clearly not been recycled thousands of times, chipped, broken, and left in the sun for weeks and months like some beer bottles in Africa. But things go downhill from here. The aroma is medicinal, the kind your mom forced you to take as a kid that was sometimes worse than the disease. The taste is similar, and indescribable. A huge disappointment. I guess an ounce of appearance is worth a pound of performance.
solidfunk (21946) reviewed Virunga Mist from SKOL Rwanda - SBL 11 years ago
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 3 | Flavor - 3 | Texture - 2 | Overall - 1.5
Pours kind of brown, tastes rusty and wack. Some burnt something in here, not sure what. Weird finish. Bottle thanks to Travlr at Epic Sour Tasting.
GenDV138 (9249) reviewed Virunga Mist from SKOL Rwanda - SBL 11 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 5
Bottle shared at DC Annual Epic Sour Tasting. Clear brown with off-white head and some sediment. Aromas of skunk, dark fruit, light dirt. Tastes of skunk and caramel. Light body with a dry finish.
iphonephan (11575) reviewed Virunga Mist from SKOL Rwanda - SBL 11 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5
From a bottle shared at the DC Epic Sour Beer Tasting. Thanks nmann08! Pours a clear cola brown with a tan head. Flavors of caramel with a sweet malt finish. Not your typical African pale lager.
radagast83 (13490) reviewed Virunga Mist from SKOL Rwanda - SBL 11 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
12oz bottle, thanks to travlr. Poured a nice ruby color with a wispy off-white head. Aroma is light malt, earthy notes. Flavor is light malts, thats it. Actually not awful.