Clear warm golden colour. Malty aroma. Sweet malty flavour, light bitter finish. Decent.
(from 33cL can @ home)

Bavaria ’pilsje’ (pale lager) commissioned by the Albert Heijn supermarket chain, apparently a resurrection of a beer from the seventies, with the original label recreated - and the bottle as well I suppose, as this comes from a stubby green 25 cl bottle of a shape and size I have rarely seen. ’Papery’ lacing, moussy, bubbly, snow white head over a cristal clear, deep golden beer, a tad darker and more ’old’ gold than usual for the style, with calm fizz. Aroma is ruined by a strong lightstruck effect (the ammonia-like stench of mercaptan as a result of hop components desintegrating from too much light shining through), but once this has faded a bit, less unpleasant impressions appear: sweetbread, soggy chicken corn, something honeyishly sweet even, some iron but not overly so, minerals, hint of grass, but also something weirdly chemical, not unlike natural gas. Neutral onset, some malt fruitiness, minerals, medium carbo (on the low side even for this particular style but still ’spritzy’), light-bodied malt sweet middle (sweetbread and sugar corn) with a metallic ’zing’ to it, light but somewhat resinous mouthfeel, dried grass-like hop bitterishness in the finish, more so than usual in a Euro pale lager and even drying the palate a bit - subtle, but above average for sure, even yielding slight floral aspects retronasally. Malt sweetness does get the last word, however. Well... it’s easy to say this is just another bland macro lager, but honestly I expected far less, considering this is brewed at Bavaria, which has belched out a whole string of lagers of much lesser appeal. A bit more ’rounded’, a tad darker, a tad more hoppy: this is clearly (somewhat) above the level of their standard pale lager. Too bad for that awful skunked smell of course, and I cannot but take this into account for my rating here. I suppose this smell is not present in the cans which are also sold in some of these AH supermarkets - but there are more interesting things to taste, obviously, so I will not bother buying one when I see it. Still, I’d recommend this over many other pale lagers here in the Low Countries - at least to people who drink nothing else.

Can. Aroma of grain, malt and some citric hops that quite surprise me. Tastes like the usual macro-pilsner, malty, slightly sweet and with minor bitters. They ditched the barf flavor of the previous ah pilsner, so this is a step forward. Still boring now and definitely not the ?the taste of now? as the label says.