DSG (25977) reviewed Viru from Flagship Brands 15 years ago
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 3 | Flavor - 3 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 3
Draught sample at the 1st Israeli Beer Exhibition in Tel Aviv. Pale golden. Grainy aroma with some hay and pale malt. Sweetish grainy flavor with a slightly drier finish. Light-bodied.
bhensonb (22605) reviewed Viru from Flagship Brands 15 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 3 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5
Bottle from a local discount grocery. Pours pale gold with a foamy off-white head. Mildly dusty malt aroma. Maybe a hint of pepper. Med body/foamy carb. Flavor is herb/pepper. It’s not really pepper or I would detect the capsaicin. Maybe bell pepper. Quite strange. Not very grassy at all. Goes a bit gummy. Goes towards dry. It’s not really objectionable, but it’s not typical. Now it’s turning astringent. I have no idea what this is.
nuplastikk (10473) reviewed Viru from Flagship Brands 15 years ago
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 4
Octagonal unique bottle. Pale, filtered, yellow color. Adjuncty, buttery sweet aroma, some herbal hop tones. Sugary, mild malt liquor pretty much. Light bodied, with some faint peppery noble hop tones. Drinkable, only because it’s so bland. Sugary mouth coating finish. Unimpressive, crap beer.
deyholla (22727) reviewed Viru from Flagship Brands 15 years ago
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 4.5
Bottle. Poured a clear gold with a thin white head that dissipated completely. Aroma was full of sweet grain and corn with a bit of grass and lager yeast. Flavor was similar with lots of adjunct some corn and a bit of growing grass in the finish.
cheap (9533) reviewed Viru from Flagship Brands 15 years ago
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
Lets not talk about the bottle. Decent smelling lager that pour pale lager eye with a little haze. Taste is fairly mild and better than I was expecting. Has a slight pilser bite to it but it is smooth enough to be one of the better americam pale lagers. Clean and crisp without any skunk. Must be a fresh bottle even though it looked old sitting there on the shelf. Yes, easy beer for a lager lover but 5 times the $ of what the same lager would get you from the states. Finish is pretty good but perhaps a tad watery. Amicable overall beer experience.
gave a cheers!
radagast83 (13490) reviewed Viru from Flagship Brands 15 years ago
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 3.5
10 oz, strange looking bottle. Other than that, it’s just like pretty much every other European pale lager, a little less skunked than a green-bottle lager. nothing to call home about except for the unique packaging.
andyhwcinc (2108) reviewed Viru from Flagship Brands 15 years ago
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 3 | Flavor - 3 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 4
This beer is just proof that a product’s marketing greatly influences a purchase. When I was looking for beer to try at Gene’s Sausage Shop in Chicago, of course I was interested in this one due to the bottle shape. Aroma is of a standard crappy lager, appearance is one of the lightest yellow’s I’ve seen. Taste wise, it’s not very good but not bad. I’m glad I got it once.
yespr (55501) reviewed Viru from Flagship Brands 15 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
33 cL bottle, courtesy of KimJohansen. Pours clear yellow with a small white head. Aroma is mild grassy and malty. Sweet malty and cornish. Light grassy note. Bitter and grassy finish.
Bullit (6144) reviewed Viru from Flagship Brands 15 years ago
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 4.5
Bottle @ Bierhalle. Light golden colour, small white head. Nose of sweet malts. Flavour of sweet malts. Watery.
madmitch76 (40452) reviewed Viru from Flagship Brands 16 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5
26th September 2008. Sampled at ’Beer Exposed’. Clean crisp lager. Reasonably fruity from the little hop. Refreshing after some of the warm bitters tasted. Not bad.