4.4/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 4
Flavor 4
Texture 5
Overall 5
One of the fixed beers from the leading brewery in Burundi in central Africa, apparently in existence since 1955 already. Thanks to tderoeck for the sample. Normally producing a frothy snow white head, but this old sample had no more head formation capacities left; pale golden robe with rosy tinge. Aroma of cooked courgette, sandwiches, ripe pear, rice pudding, grass. Sweetish onset, cooked rice-like, cereally, thin with sourish and metallic edges - quite unpleasant to be fair, with nothing happening further on except from an apple-ish oxidation note. Typically bland, sickly sweetish, unpleasant African pale lager, but I guess it was a bit more digestible when fresh.
Tried
from Bottle
on 17 Jan 2026
at 02:13
3.5/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 2.5
Flavor 3
Texture 5
Overall 4
Sampled at Tim's place, huge thanks! Clear pale yellow color, very small white lacing. Aroma is oddly somewhat pear-ish. Flavor is weak malty and softly dusty with hints of apple or pear. Weird.
Tried
on 20 Dec 2025
at 14:46
5/10
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Appearance 5
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 5
Overall 5
Sample @ Tim's place, Gent. Country no. 184 🇧🇮. Pours gold. Significantly oxidised, cardboard, pale malt, adjunct. It is what it is. Rated kindly.
Tried
on 20 Dec 2025
at 11:31
3.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 3
Texture 3
Overall 3
Schwacher hellmalziger Beginn. Wenig würzig, minimal herb, wenig herb, laff. 10/7/5/6//5
Tried
from Bottle
on 19 Dec 2025
at 22:12
3.5/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 3
Flavor 3
Texture 4
Overall 4
19 December 2025. Country Tasting @ Tim’s - thanks for hosting, cheers to the whole crew!
A: clear golden, no head.
A: corn, cereals, cardboard.
T: sweet corn, bitter cardboard & yeast.
F: corn, cardboard, vague apple peel, quite empty.
P: light body, watery texture, average carbonation.
Oxidised Lager, still there's some flavour to be found.
A: clear golden, no head.
A: corn, cereals, cardboard.
T: sweet corn, bitter cardboard & yeast.
F: corn, cardboard, vague apple peel, quite empty.
P: light body, watery texture, average carbonation.
Oxidised Lager, still there's some flavour to be found.
Tried
on 19 Dec 2025
at 14:01
1/10
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Tried
on 18 Dec 2025
at 23:00
3/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 2.5
Flavor 2
Texture 2
Overall 3.5
Bottled at Zappa Was Right tasting 2007. Pale amber, dense firm head. Fruity lingonberry aroma. Sweet and fruity with some dusty vegetables and dried plums. Salty finish. Sugary and unrefined.
Tried
on 19 Nov 2025
at 13:39
4.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 4.5
Flavor 4
Texture 4
Overall 5
New Country. 500ml bottle. Piana sporawa nawet zadziwiajaco trwala, zlociste jaskrawe ale lekko metne, lekki osadek na dnie. Ale nie przeszkadzalo bo i tak calosci nie zamierzalem wypijac bo i tak zbyt wiele mam do zrobienia dzisiejszego dnia z innymi piwami. Chmielnosc niezbyt zaznaczona, lekko kukurydziane i slodowe.
Tried
from Bottle
on 16 Nov 2025
at 13:57
2.8/10
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Appearance 3
Aroma 2.5
Flavor 2.5
Texture 3
Overall 3
[3.10.22] Burundi is Country #204. Thousand thanks to Fredrik. Grainy nose. The beer starts mild smooth, fruity with a grainy body. Smooth bitter, grainy in the end with a bitter grainy finish.
Tried
from Bottle
on 01 Jan 2025
at 23:14
5.5/10
Tried
on 23 Dec 2024
at 23:58