First Lomax - Volkan Beer

Microbrewery in Santorini, South Aegean, Greece 🇬🇷

Established in 2011

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Santorini, 84700, Greece
Description
Volkan beer is the first Greek beer born in Santorini, inspired and made from the finest local ingredients of the Cycladic islands. Santorini is volcanic and unique. Our spectacular island receives little rainfall, so what grows is intense in flavour and aromas and limited in quantity. In brewing Volkan we bring together, lava rock filtered mineral water and the best of local ingredients; rare Santorini grape honey and ancient citrus medica essence from Naxos.

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5.9
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5

Bottle. Almost perfectly black, meium beige head, not so lasting. ild roasted nose, quite dusty. Gently sweet start, quite roasted to follow. A bit of coffee and mild bitterness. Gentle aftertaste.

Tried from Bottle on 09 Aug 2021 at 17:49


6.5
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6

Bottle, Sklaventis supermarket, Fira. Just slightly hazy golden, larger white foamy head, lasting. Quite citric nose, soury, vinous and slightly spicy. Gently sweet start, slight bitterness, slightly citric. Light, fresh. Interesting and not bad.

Tried from Bottle on 09 Aug 2021 at 17:44


7.2
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7

Bottle, Sklaventis supermarket, Fira. Somewhat hazy golden, medium foamy white head, ok lasting. Nice wheaty nose, slightly spicy, milder bananas. Medium bitterness, slight banana sweetness, nice spicy finish. Lasting aftertaste. Light. Very ncie one, actually.

Tried from Bottle on 09 Aug 2021 at 08:10


6.4
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

Bottle @ random restaurant in Oia, Santorini. Nice head with good duration. Color is black. Aroma and taste are roast malt, caramel, nuts, hops and has a nice roasty finish.

Tried from Bottle on 16 Jul 2021 at 13:00


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5.1
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 4.5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 4.5

Pretty much clear golden with a white head. Aroma is really quite malty with some citrus behind. Flavour is above light sweet and bitter. Light bodied with moderate carbonation.

Tried from Bottle at Diver Beer Restaurant on 06 Jul 2021 at 16:18


5.4
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5

Bottle picked up from a small mini market, Loutras, Kythnos, Greece and consumed on Asterion II, Anek Lines RoRo ferry en route from Igoumenitsa, Greece to Venice, Italy Friday 18th September 2020. Cannot tell the colour as drinking from my kleankanteen. Quite sweet from the off, honey, a little spice, but not much else to report, in fact if I didn't look at the bottle I would be unsure of the style. Ok.

Tried from Bottle on 18 Sep 2020 at 11:16


5.5
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5

Standard pale lager with adjunct flavouring of honey and citron (which is not lemon); another of these Volkan beers from Santorini, I had a 'black' version before but never this original blonde one. At a Greek restaurant in Hulst in the southern Netherlands. Egg-white, mousy, dense and thick but slowly collapsing head on a clear, deep 'old gold' coloured beer with olive-greenish tinge. Aroma a bit lightstruck at first (cat pee), but this fades quickly to make room for impressions of breakfast cereals, chewing gum, drying grass, cold cooked pasta, wet flour, popcorn, dried flowers (the honey I suppose) and a vague, distorted background note of old dried lemon peel (the citron?). Rounded, very slick, cereally body, no real fruitiness, sweetish with prickly carbonation (very minerally and even unpleasantly stinging), thinnish and corn-ish but not blandly grain-sweet, with that grassy, floral and dried-spicy citron and honey touches subtly altering the flavour a bit in the end. Remains a badly disguised bland pale lager in all respects, though, with only the faintest grassy hop bitterish touch in the finish. Granted, the honey and the citron do add very slight accents, but in a very dull, 'dead' kind of way - and all too subtle to really make a difference with the masses of pale lagers flooding the planet. That said, I had much worse pale lagers than this one, too.

Tried on 01 Jul 2020 at 19:10


6
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 5.5 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6

Bottle [thnx Amal!] at home. Clear golden color, medium sized white head that diminishes fairly quickly. Aroma is quite faint. Don't get much other than a grainy maltiness. Flavor is malts, bitter malts, bitter. Decent body and average to medium carbonation. Quite ok.

Tried on 09 Jan 2020 at 21:31


5.5
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 4

This lager poured a hazy, medium yellow colour with a creamy, bright white head. Nice lacing. Scents include honey, dough and a little corn. First swig was quite thin but flavourful. Tastes of corn syrup and club soda. Finish is lightly sweet with cornish flavours lingering.

Tried on 08 Jan 2020 at 02:18


6.6
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5

This dunkel poured a deep, dark amber colour with a creamy tan coloured head. Nice lacing. Scents include sweet caramel, a little coffee and Bovril. First swig was a little thin, with flavours of caramel, a little smoke and black coffee. Finish is a wee bit smokey with caramel flavours lingering.

Tried on 08 Jan 2020 at 01:43