Société des Brasseries de l'Ouest Africain - SOBOA
Commercial Brewery
in Dakar,
Senegal 🇸🇳
Owned by
Castel Group
Established in 1929
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 5
Sampled from bottle @ RBBWG 2018, hosted by Beerlovers Bar, Antwerp. Clear pale yellow color, small white head. Smell and taste are both very grainy, malty, lightly hayish perhaps but grainy malty flavors dominate. Very light bodied of course. Oh well, nice country tick and not too bad actually.
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 3 | Flavor - 3 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 3
Pale golden colour, white head. Malty aroma, straw, some skunk. Malty flavour, light bitter, brussels sprouts. Finish grains and vegetables. Ah well, it's another country tick.
(from 33cL bottle @ RBBWG '18, Antwerpen. Thanks for sharing, Seba, and thanks for the hospitality, Ben!)
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 2 | Overall - 4
F: thin, white, quick gone. C: straw, clear. A: grassy, bit bread, very watery, bit papery. T: watery grainy, bit bready, very thin body, bit oxidized, medium to high carbonation, as another country tick that´s all, 33cl bottle sampled @ RBBWG (10/03/2018), many thanks Sebletitje
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 3 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 3
Thank you Sebletitje! 330 ml. green bottle sampled @ RBBWG VI (2018). Very pale golden, white head. Nose is very poor vegetable, grain. Taste is grain, vegetable, brussels sprouts, soggy bread, very thin,… Mineral & watery. Quite poor but better than the other African lagers at the tasting.
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 3.5
Imported from my RateBeer account as Bière La Gazelle (by Société des Brasseries de l'Ouest Africain - SOBOA):
Aroma: 4/10, Appearance: 2/5, Taste: 4/10, Palate: 3/5, Overall: 7/20, MyTotalScore: 2/5
10/III/18 - 33cl bottle @ RBBWG (Beer Lover's, Antwerp) - BB: n/a (2018-250) Thanks to Sebletitje for sharing the country tick!
Clear pale yellow beer, small aery irregular white head, dissipates immediately. Aroma: very malty, lots of grains, oxidized, sweetish, rotten fruit. MF: very lively carbon, medium to light body. Taste: very malty, grains, cardboard, soft bitterness, marijuana. Aftertaste: grassy, hay, cow fodder, little bitter, sweetish, not great, not too shabby for an African lager, either...
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 3 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 3
Bouteille 33cl, merci Alisa pour avoir ramener cela du Sénégal au Niger. BB 09/01/2019. Dorée pâle claire, col blanc. Arôme de grains, houblonné sur le fleuri sur léger citronné restant assez basique, carton mouillé.Rétro malté pils sur touche fine de grains-céréales. Palais est crisp sur un effet malté avec une présence de maïs et un fini houblonné noble citronné. Le tout est assez sec sur une effervescence moyenne voire haute. Petite douceur résiduelle. En comparaison, je trouve la Braniger mieux réussite. Fini garde cet effet un peu métallique malté - citronnée. Pas mauvaise juste typique des pale lagers africaines.
Sampled from bottle at jim is back xmas tasting. Clear and pale golden with white head. Sweet malt, manna, rice crispies. Moderate sweet and bitter. Under medium body and soft carbonation. Quite alright. (🇹🇬 Togo +1!)
Appearance - 5 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 5 | Overall - 5
Beers of the World country 74: Senegal 🇸🇳
"The beer is solid golden in colour with a solid foam top. It looks just like most of the lagers I’ve tasted earlier but doesn’t taste that way. The taste is flat and bitter but not in the typical malty way. It finishes of on the more sweet note but still with some sour and bitter elements, and of course this is one of those 0.5 liter bottles…" - beersoftheworldproject.wordpress.com
Date: 04/08/2017
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5
Awesome country tick at TimE’s. Pours a clear pale yellow color with a medium white head. Bready, biscuit, light fruit but basically sweet biscuits and toast. OK.
Appearance - 2 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5
Extremely pale golden color. Very light nose of cereal and corn. Very light low hops easy drinking. Not as bad as I was thinking.