5.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 6
Bottle, 6.6%. Slow gusher. Yeasty aroma. Hazy chestnut colour. Small white head. The flavour is vinous, slightly malty with some baking yeast. Quite ordinary, but OK.
Tried
from Bottle
on 20 Mar 2009
at 06:09
5.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 6
Bottle, 5%. Hazy pale yellow colour. Big stable chalk white head. The flavour starts off very mild. Has notes of tea/coriander, a little lemon in the finish. Very mild but OK.
Tried
from Bottle
on 20 Mar 2009
at 06:07
6.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Bottled Bavik version Very light gushing to amber/cream head over pale foxy beer. Very nutty nose, sweet bread, very much like the aromas of a - very slightly oxidized - German Bock. Slightly burnt, roasted taste, Maillard-like. No trace of superfluous sweetness, but then no hoppiness neither. Bit thinnish body and MF, some slickness. Original recipe? I’m starting to believe it, too unsimilar to other Bavik brews, different feel. Was: 6/3/7/3/13 Rerating Draught @ brewpub Red-yellow fine & dense head over copper-clear beer. Lemony nose, slightly coloured malts, paint, caramel, faint spices in the finish. Dry, grainy, very malty like malt cookies. Plain and neutral, but certainly inviting. Gives me an impression of liquidized wholemeal bread. Medium bodied at best, some slickness. Much better to my liking than the bottled beer from Bavik. Yes, it’s easier to get it right, fresh from the lagertank, but there’s really something better. And I think it’s more than the spices, Annick!
Tried
from Bottle
on 19 Feb 2009
at 01:18
6.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 7
Huge, dense white head over hazy, lemonjuice-like beer. Fine citrus and citruspeel aroma, some coriander. Very fruity taste, citrus, some sour apples, coriander, faint peppery, Szechuan pepper. Light MF, refreshing and lightly spritzy. Not at all bad witbier, quite good example for the style. Draught at the brewpub. Not better.
Tried
on 18 Feb 2009
at 10:20
6.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 7
I had high expectation for this and was happy to finally come across a bottle. 12oz poured (stamped 39518) into a St. Paul snifter. Color is very milky straw, too hazy to see through it he carbonation is visible. Aroma is light perfume-y floral and light sweet cereal. Taste is light yeasty (faint dough) and has a light mineral finish. Easy drinking and light but actual not too interesting, I will want to revisit this with a fresh bottle in the future.
Tried
from Bottle
on 09 Jan 2009
at 14:03
4.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 4
Overall 4.5
11.2 ounce bottle from Once Upon a Vine in Richmond. Pours a slightly hazy orange color with a medium head. Aroma of grain, stone fruits and nuts. Taste is grain, caramel, nuts and a muted fruity note. Medium bodied. Not nearly as good as the wit, sadly.
Tried
from Bottle
on 15 Nov 2008
at 13:45
4.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 4
Texture 4
Overall 4
Clear iced tea near brown yellow sparkling appearance. Thin foam alibaster coating. Strongish biting sensations. Aroma is volatile wet hay. Processed hoppish appeal, yet not extremely hoppy bitter. Heavy maltish alky impressions. Uncanny sweetness in the finish. Overall dizzying effect.
Tried
from Can
on 20 Sep 2008
at 06:19
6.9/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 5
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Nice unyellow vanilla look with sparkling carbonation and a hypnotizing sediment swirl. Smells somewhat like pennsylvania spring water. Smooth tasting with great carbonation. Easy and amicable. Has an odd finish on the back top of the throat, reminds me of rain water from a cistern. Pretty nice. Perhaps a little more of that off water mineral background than I’m used to.
Tried
on 15 Sep 2008
at 16:37
5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 4
Texture 4
Overall 5
Bottle. Pour is a very fizzy-headed amber with aromas of grain dust and bread with a little bit of a musty side to it all. Flavor is an odd mix of spice, earth and the a bit of acid/sour in the finish. I didn’t find that this combination worked well at all.
Tried
from Bottle
on 23 Aug 2008
at 23:38
6.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
@ Richmond/Williamsburg Gathering courtesy of LooseCannon, thanks Ron-11.2 oz bottle-pours a thin white head and hazy gold color. Aroma is lemon, musty yeast, light malt. Taste is lemon, musty yeast, light malt/wheat, some herbal. Mild carbonation. Enjoyable.
Tried
from Can
on 10 Aug 2008
at 22:13