Lafkas Brewery

Microbrewery in Chania, Crete, Greece 🇬🇷

Established in 2017

Contact
Pazinos, Chania, 73100, Greece
Description
It all began in 2011 with a love match: Michalis Lafkis, studying wine making, visited Belgium to find out about beers, and there met Aurelie Petillion! Five years later they ended up living together in Crete and making their own Belgian-Greek beer – a fusion of Belgian know-how with products from the wonderful Greek climate. Their first beer was launched in 2017, found only in Crete.

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6.4/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 5 Flavor 6 Texture 8 Overall 6.5
0,5 l bottle from a supermarket at Rethymno, Crete. Dark golden in the glass, slightly cloudy. One finger short living white head. Straw and grainy aroma. Taste is more on the dry grainy side, with hints of citrus. Present bitter hop. Below average carbonation.
Tried from Bottle on 24 Sep 2024 at 18:34

6.8/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 6 Flavor 6 Texture 8 Overall 7
0,33 l bottle bought at a supermarket at Rethymno, Crete. Cloudy amber in the glass, small pale beige head. Toasted malty aroma. Some british hop and honey. Taste starts with dry fruity malty bitterness, some black tea in the background. Below average carbonated. Nearly like an IPA. Not bad.
Tried from Bottle on 23 Sep 2024 at 19:40

5.8/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 5 Flavor 6 Texture 6 Overall 6
Old fashioned nonalc Aroma dominated by sweet cereral flavor is oats, sweet malts, low on hops. Very easy drinking and somewhat sweet, however, in a league of its own much much better than the Amstel low alc I got the other day. Good traditional low alc.
Tried on 28 May 2024 at 15:12

5.1/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 6 Flavor 4 Texture 6 Overall 4.5
mild hoppy and flowery aroma, the bottle nearly spilled over when opened, hay orange, huge fluffy white head. initial impression is that this beer is a bit allround messy. flavor is watery, weird nutty malty, strange hoppy balance, totally off and way less well crafted than the several others i have had from the same brewery. tastes like a cheap spanish discount supermarket wheat ale, sorry to say.
Tried from Bottle on 28 May 2024 at 14:11

6.1/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 7 Flavor 5 Texture 6 Overall 5.5
bottle. cloudy yellow with a super nice looking smooth creamy entirely white head. Aroma is oranges, faint wheaty note. The oranges are strong in this one. Ripe yellow oranges. Works well. Refreshing. Fresh fruity. Flavor is wheaty, wheat-driven faint frutiness, oranges, hardly any bitterness, wheaty ending. The flavor is more like a hefeweisen than a wit, it lacks the spiciness and bitterness and citrussiness of the typical wit, but also the bitterness of the hefe -there is no bitterness at all in this one, which makes it a bit more boring than it could've been. In some sense it's almost like a radler, only more watery.
Tried from Bottle on 28 May 2024 at 07:48

6.9/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 7.5
Bottle from atlasworld supermarket in Chania aromatic malty and slightly herbal hoppy aroma, nice clean well done lager aroma. flavor is a slightly sweet malty lager with a good balancing not too heavy bitterness, flavorful, but no off flavors, really good lager. This will pair very good with food.
Tried from Bottle on 27 May 2024 at 13:58

7/10
Wheaty, hoppy, and yeasty pale
Tried from Bottle on 10 Oct 2023 at 11:58

6/10
Tried from Bottle on 07 Oct 2023 at 13:47

6.1/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 5 Flavor 6 Texture 6 Overall 6.5
330ml bottle bought at B is for Beer. Pours a foamy white head slowly diminishing over a misty golden body, spotty lacing. Moderate aromas of floral hops, grassy. Oily hops to the taste profile, impacts of lemon and grapefruit, hints of mild spices as well. Ends mid-dry with a distant bitter touch. Clean on the swallow. Pretty fair. (Hotel room, Chania 31.05.2023).
Tried from Bottle on 07 Jun 2023 at 18:20

5/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 6 Flavor 4 Texture 4 Overall 5
Bottle shared by Jeff, thanks! Pours a hazy earthy brown with a tan head that dissipates quickly to the edges. Aroma has peanut butter with dark grains and some sour red fruits underlying. Flavor is thin with tart fruits, dark grains and a hint of peanut butter.
Tried from Bottle on 11 Dec 2022 at 19:37