Lafkas Brewery

Microbrewery in Chania, Crete, Greece 🇬🇷

Established in 2017

Contact
Leof. Kazantzaki 102, Vamvakopoulo, Chania, 73131, 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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6.9
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5

bottle from supermarket outside chania. aroma is sweet roasted malts and flowery hops, chocolate and minerla water. Very nice and quite clean aroma. appears chocolate brown, small brown head. flavor is chocolate, faint salty note, mild malts, good roasted black bread bready yeasty base. Very nice mild yet flavorful stout, sort of like a guinness but with more flavors, especially more chocolate and roasted notes. Very dry, none of the sweet hard roasted malty flavors you might get from an imperial stout. good one. Many mild stouts are sort of boring and too much of a brown ale, but this one really has body and flavor, yet is mild. good job!

Tried from Bottle on 05 Aug 2019 at 00:13


6
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6

bottle from supermarket outside chania, crete, away from chrissi akti beach, on the main road, open 24/7. Clear dark orange, small offwhite head. flower sligtly fruity quite malty aroma. also Ripe oranges hints of pine and grapefruit. flavor is malty, caramelly, spicy bitter, slighly flowery. not so good. like a well meant homebrew that went wrong. bitterness could be plastic flavored. tried this one again at the brewery, the off flavors were not there, and that leaves a decent apa, although it still is a bit (non-american) bitter and has hints of grass or straw. Tastes a little bit like belgian ipa's. Anyway, the one from the brewery did not at all have the plastic bitterness, so i have adjusted the ratings to match the one i tasted at the brewery.

Tried from Bottle on 04 Aug 2019 at 23:26


6.8
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

Black, slightly oily with small beige head. Roast, choc and coffee aroma. Roasted flavour, a little coffee, a little licorice. Long roasted finish. Ok flavourful but feels a little thin.

Tried on 12 Jul 2019 at 18:34


6.6
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

Svart med lavt beige skum. Lukter salt lakris og papp. Middels- i fylde. Smaker salt lakris, havre og noe papp. Kort

Tried on 14 Jun 2019 at 17:02


7.3
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8

Black color withe beige brown head. Malty aroma, roasted, milk chocolate, cocoa, light coffee. Sweet and light bitter taste. Light to medium almost oily body with soft carbonation.

Tried on 05 Apr 2019 at 18:42


6.6
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

5/12/2018. Bottle from Barley Cargo, Athens. Pours mid gold with a foamy white head. Aroma of hops, citrus, malt, grass and caramel. Moderate sweetness and bitterness. Moderate body, slight oily texture, average carbonation. Some bitterness to finish. Quite enjoyed this one.

Tried from Bottle on 05 Dec 2018 at 23:04


6
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6

Bottled, thanks Jojje! Clear deep golden, small head. Mild grapefruit aroma. Mid sweet with light-medium body and clean, rounded mouthfeel - excessive carbonation. Mild grapefruit, some spice. Mid bitter finish.

Tried from Bottle on 15 Sep 2018 at 16:36


6

Barva tmave hneda, pena skoro zadna, vune ipovita. Chut pekne vyladena, nekouka z toho zadna extra pachut. Zacatek lehky skoro az sladky, pak se rozjede aleovita ulpivajici horkost. Ale zadny brutal na to ze je to triple hops. Lahev

Tried on 15 Jun 2018 at 17:20


6.3
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6

330 ml bottle at home. Almost clear dark golden amber color with off white head. Malty and light hoppy aroma, caramel, light bread and grainy, noble hops, grassy, light citrusy fruity. Sweet and bitter taste like aroma. Almost medium oily body with soft carbonation.

Tried from Bottle on 28 Dec 2017 at 12:32