Brakina (SOBIDO)
Commercial Brewery
in Ouagadougou,
Burkina Faso 🇧🇫
Owned by
Castel Group
Established in 1960
Kraddel (15844) reviewed Brakina Bière du Burkina from Brakina (SOBIDO) 9 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Thnx to Bartlebier. Pours clear blonde, small white head. Smell is intense, sweet, chemical maltyness. Taste is malty, sweet, aromatic. Lager yeast. OK, bit chemical.
77ships (14506) reviewed Brakina Bière du Burkina from Brakina (SOBIDO) 9 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 2 | Flavor - 3 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 3
Thank you for sharing Bartlebier! 650 ml. bottle sampled @ Bruges Beer Festival 2017. 100 % clear golden, industrial lager white head. Nose is pure vegetables in the worst fashion, DMS, just pure awful cooked vegetables. Taste is sparkling, thin, watery, overly metallic, awfully mineral tasting with cooked vegetables. Thin, metallic, watery. Rubbish. Burkina Faso appears to be another poor country where the beer scene is dominated by a western industrial brewery churning out garbage. Indicative of many other things for sure.
tderoeck (22711) reviewed Brakina Bière du Burkina from Brakina (SOBIDO) 9 years ago
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 2 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 2.5
Imported from my RateBeer account as Brakina Bière du Burkina (by Brakina (BGI)):
Aroma: 4/10, Appearance: 2/5, Taste: 2/10, Palate: 3/5, Overall: 5/20, MyTotalScore: 1.6/5
5/II/17 - 65cl bottle @ Brugs Bierfestival - BB: n/a (2017-153) Thanks to bartlebier for sharing the bottle!
Clear pale blond beer, small irregular off-white head, unstable, non adhesive. Aroma: lots and lots of marijuana, weed, then dirty, grains, wet cardboard. MF: soft carbon, medium to light body. Taste: very malty, grains, bit sweet, car board, sourish. Aftertaste: grains, bit dirty, grassy bitterness.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 4.5
330ml bottle [Thanks Aziz for this one and thereby supplying me with the whole range of Brakina brews!]. Clear, yellow-ish golden colour with small to average, thick, frothy to creamy, half-way lasting, minimally lacing, white head. Slighty earthy-musty, grainy and strawy aroma. Taste is minimally sweet pale malty, minimally strawy and grainy, slightly bitter, hoppy counterweight with grassy, mineral and even floral touch; Probably the most accurate, cleanest Brakina Pale Lager.
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 3.5
Bottle from Ruben, thanks! The Burkinese edition of this brand, ironically acquired by a company named after and started by a French wine producer, a guy named Pierre Castel who apparently still runs this international company. Thick, snow white lacing head over a clear golden blonde beer - looks exactly like 99% of mass-produced standard lagers throughout the world. Aroma of dry (chicken) grains, wet paper, old cloth, some vague iron and that’s about it. Sweetish, soggy chicken corn prevails in the taste, quickly turning to lightly sourish grains but all very subdued, standard spritzy (but not over-)carbonisation for the style, thin and somewhat metallic mouthfeel, grainy sourishness and corn-like sweetishness keep prevailing in an otherwise neutral environment, though a touch of grassy hop bitterishness is palpable in the end, which otherwise remains watery as expected. I had many a standardized pale lager in my life - especially considering the search for ’country ticks’ on this site - and I will never truly like this style, neither did I twenty-five years ago when I started drinking beer, but admittedly this one is not all bad; it has a more or less balanced flavour profile (for this style at least - and I use the word ’flavour’ in the most neutral sense possible here) and carries at least a trace of hop bitterishness in its finish, obviously not more so than standard pale lagers in western countries, but perhaps a bit more so than in many other African pale lagers I endured so far. In all: really not the worst in its league, whether this has anything to do with its French heritage or not.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5
Imported from my RateBeer account as Castel Beer (Burkina Faso) (by Brakina (BGI)):
Aroma: 5/10, Appearance: 3/5, Taste: 5/10, Palate: 3/5, Overall: 10/20, MyTotalScore: 2.6/5
31/X/16 - 33cl bottle @ home - Ster's first Ghentian tasting, BB: 21/VI/17 (2016-1264) Thanks to Alengrin for sharing the bottle!
Clear dark blond beer, small irregular off-white head, little stable, non adhesive. Aroma: grains, bit sweet, malty, some almonds. MF: ok carbon, medium body. Taste: bit malty, grains, sourish touch, soft bitterness. Aftertaste: grains, bit malty, sweet, floral, meh. Not super, but definitely not as bad as a lot of other African beers...
Alengrin (11609) reviewed Brakina Bière du Burkina from Brakina (SOBIDO) 9 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 2 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 2 | Overall - 5
From a 65 cl bottle, thanks Ruben. Thick, very frothy, moussy, dense and snow white head, very pale golden colour, cristal clear with lively sparkling. Aroma of tinfoil, cardboard, white bread crumbs, some ’sweaty’ grains, wet paper. Simple grain sweetish flavor, bit sourish as well, thin with a minerally touch, medium carbo, metallic in the middle, very light herbal bitterish touch in the end, lightly bready ’feeling’ at the back. Very neutral and in that sense inoffensive.
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 2 | Overall - 5
Burkina’s version of Flag, thanks Ruben for bringing me a large bottle of this beer all the way from Ouagadougou... Slow gushing (the first time I ever see this in a pale lager!), medium thick, moussy, quickly thinning, snow white head, clear and deep (almost ’old’) golden colour with lively sparkling. Weak aroma, hints of dry breakfast cereals and soggy chicken corn, iron, straw, dust, old cardboard. Neutral taste, grainy with only a very low degree of corn sweetishness, thin and slightly oily mouthfeel, bit metallic, medium carbo (on the soft side for this style). A faint grassy touch shows up in the end, only very mildly bittering. Actually I expected worse: this is as neutral a lager as it gets, but at least it does not contain too much disturbing corn sweetness which is omnipresent in standard pale lagers throughout the world; I can imagine drinking this ice cold under a searing African sun can be adequately quenching. Drinkable, if you do not expect anything else than that.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 4.5
650ml bottle [Thanks again; Monsieur Aziz; for the import!]. Clear, yellow-ish golden colour with average, frothy, half-way lasting, minimally lacing, white head. Grassy hoppy aroma, minimally strawy, grainy background. Taste is slightly bitter, grassy hoppy, minimally metallic, pale malty background with a strawy touch, subtle sweetness; prickling, almost lively carbonation.
Idiosynkrasie (17851) reviewed So.B.Bra from Brakina (SOBIDO) 11 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 4.5
650ml bottle [due to Aziz’ tremendous effort, thank you very much again!]. Clear, yellow-ish golden colour with average, frothy, half-way lasting, minimally lacing, white head. Strawy and grainy aroma, a touch of hay, cuatious, slightly grassy hoppy overtones. Taste is initially grainy and strawy, later with a good dosis of bitter hop, unable to disguise the strawy undertones completely; additionally a very cautious touch of lemon, some cardboard. Of course not really good, but animate, not fully monotonous, obviously a dedicated effort to make something out of inferior ingredients.