Viru
A. Le Coq

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From:
A. Le Coq
 
Estonia
Style:
European Pale Lager
Ranked #347
ABV:
5%
Score:
66
Ranked #28,288
Avg:
2.74 | pDev: 22.63%
Reviews:
89
Ratings:
158
Status:
Active
Rated:
Jul 16, 2022
Added:
Mar 31, 2006
Wants:
  2
Gots:
  22
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Ratings by SLeffler27:
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Reviewed by SLeffler27 from New York

2.9/5  rDev +5.8%
look: 3 | smell: 3 | taste: 2.5 | feel: 3 | overall: 3.5
Pours clear gold with a slight, quick head and lace.

From a pint glass, I discerned faint hops and sweet malt. Overall it was more grassy and faint.

The flavor of Viru is much akin to mineral water. There is a sweetish, faint apple flavor with a light, almost undistinguishable finish.

A medium body with lots of carbonation and no alcohol.

Easy to drinik and thirst quenching, though uninteresting. There is nothing offensive here and it did add to an enjoyable afternoon with friends.
Jun 24, 2012
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Reviewed by Sigmund from Norway

2.78/5  rDev +1.5%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3 | taste: 2.75 | feel: 2.5 | overall: 2.5
500 ml can, as Viru Premium Estonian Beer, from the grocery store in Tofinis Hotel, Ayia Napa, Cyprus. ABV is 5.0%. Clear golden colour, moderate white head. Sweetish aroma of pilsener malts and floral hops. Industrial sweetish pilsener flavour, the hops are too moderate.
Jul 16, 2022
 
Rated: 2.7 by Yoann from France

Jan 03, 2018
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Reviewed by pootz from Canada (ON)

2.17/5  rDev -20.8%
look: 2.25 | smell: 2 | taste: 2.25 | feel: 2 | overall: 2.25
Can from the beer store - Pours a medium clear gold color with a 1 finger white cap that disappears quickly. Aroma is faint and commercial with maltose-dextrin smells and little else. Clean, no off tastes, sharp edges-lacks conditioning acute LME dextrin tastes and light hop presence - instantly forgettable.
Aug 17, 2017
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Reviewed by thehyperduck from Canada (ON)

3.22/5  rDev +17.5%
look: 3.25 | smell: 3 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3 | overall: 3.5
500 mL can purchased at The Beer Store; dated Oct 28 2016 and served well chilled.

Pours a clear medium-golden colour, topped with roughly one finger of frothy white foam that fizzles off ahead of the five minute mark. A modest-sized collar is the only remnant - there's no cap, and not much in the way of lace, either. Visually, it's interchangeable with most other Euro lagers, and the same could well be said of its mundane aroma - there's just not much to speak of, other than cereal grain sweetness and some grassy, weedy hops. Perhaps a hint of apple skins?

Yep... it's a Euro lager. Doughy malts and barley grain are the most prominent flavours, with minor hints of apple juice tartness and corn sugar becoming apparent by mid-sip. The back end is mostly the same, save for a light brushing of grassy hops - just enough to provide some semblance of bitterness, tasked with the futile mission of countering the sweetness of the malt profile. Light in body, with moderate carbonation levels that briskly agitate the surfaces of the palate. Not as crisp as I prefer from this style, but the mouthfeel is otherwise fine. This is a tolerable, unmemorable pale lager, not unlike the other Baltic (and Polish) lagers I've tried in the past.

Final Grade: 3.22, a C+. Viru is drinkable as far as basic pale lagers go, but I really wouldn't call it an especially well-made beer - the term "Baltic pilsner" appears on the label, but that's a half-truth at best. I'd argue that it has more in common with standard Euro lager fare (Grolsch, Heineken, et al.) than it does with the typically higher-quality pilseners of German/Czech origin - which generally include a more robust hop presence than Viru can muster. Not something I intend to revisit - you could definitely do worse than this beer, but doing better is equally trivial - so tick it once if you wish, and then move on to greener pastures.
Jul 17, 2017
 
Rated: 3.25 by mishi_d from Romania

Jul 16, 2017
 
Rated: 3.24 by Glorithm from Canada (ON)

May 24, 2017
 
Rated: 3 by duvel1979 from District of Columbia

Sep 25, 2016
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Rated by LukeGude from Iowa

2.9/5  rDev +5.8%
look: 3 | smell: 3 | taste: 2.75 | feel: 3 | overall: 3
Estonian beer, purchased in Korea, enjoyed in America! A lot of travel for what essentially is Bud Light though
Sep 25, 2016
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Reviewed by jmv0009 from Alabama

3.53/5  rDev +28.8%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 2.75 | overall: 3.5
Poured from the cool 330ml bottle. First beer from Estonia.
L- Pale golden color with lots of bubbles and a big white head.
S- Bread and yeast.
T - Very bready up front, with a slick alcohol finish.
F- Slick, lots of carbonation. Easy drinking though glad I tried it.
O - Easy drinking, not a bad flavor very bready. Cool bottle presentation is nice. Might get again was an above average lager especially since lagers are among my least favorite styles. Not sure why this has low ratings on here, I enjoyed it.
Aug 01, 2016
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Reviewed by Malt_Man from England

3.1/5  rDev +13.1%
look: 4.5 | smell: 2.5 | taste: 3 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 3
Served cold from super-cool shaped 300ml bottle into pilsner glass.

L) Light to medium golden colour, clear, huge bubbles, fluffy white head. Faultless in this department.

S) Hmm. A bit metallic. Was not expecting that from an all-malt lager in a brown bottle.

T) Very light malt flavour, no bitterness or much hop flavour. A definite wateriness in there. Not horrible and no off-flavours, just very weak flavour.

F) Very easy drinking and nowhere near as gassy as it looks. No aftertastes. Can't really complain on this front,.

O) Meek lager, little taste and extra points off for coming in a 300ml bottle and not a 330ml bottle, even though it looks cool.
Jul 08, 2016
 
Rated: 1.69 by Salasbeer from Spain

Jul 03, 2016
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Reviewed by josanguapo from Spain

3.46/5  rDev +26.3%
look: 3 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
From Carrefour. In Ikea's pilsner glass. At lunch, with rice with squids. Pretty good for the style. Not only a pretty bottle. Soft aroma and smell and thicker body than usual
Dec 19, 2015
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Reviewed by stevoj from Idaho

3.2/5  rDev +16.8%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3 | overall: 3.25
One of the fluffiest heads I’ve seen on a pale lager. two to three fingers high, pale golden with fine carbonation. Aroma and taste are mildly malt with some citrus notes. Not much lasting flavor, but a very decent lighter beer.
Dec 16, 2015
 
Rated: 2.99 by Allegue04 from Spain

Dec 15, 2015
 
Rated: 2.75 by ovaltine from Indiana

May 28, 2015
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Reviewed by Foyle from North Carolina

3.52/5  rDev +28.5%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
Poured from 300ml bottle into pilsner glass.

Appearance: pours a frothy 1" white head that drops quickly with mild lacing left behind. Color is clear pale straw with plenty of streaming carbonation.

Aroma: pleasant combination of lightly toasted barley and grassy hops.

Mouthfeel: light, crisp, refreshing with a fairly dry finish.

Flavor: echoes the aroma: mild mixture of lightly toasted barley and grassy hops with some slight vanilla notes as well.

Overall: easy drinking and tasty, what's not to like?
Mar 19, 2015
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Rated by Tejon

1.17/5  rDev -57.3%
look: 1.25 | smell: 1 | taste: 1.25 | feel: 1 | overall: 1.25
Beatiful bottle, taste like mahou or even worse xD
Feb 08, 2015
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Reviewed by StonedTrippin from Colorado

3.5/5  rDev +27.7%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
underrated, this has all the traits of a baltic region lager, super cold fermented feeling, patient beer, fuller bodied, well carbonated, and drinkable forever. maybe some reviewers have had dated bottles, but when fresh, this is really nice, not a trace of off flavors for a pale lager type, and pretty clean finishing despite all the body. fun beer, awesome bottle obviously, aside from the fact it only hold 10 or so ounces of beer, feeling a little cheated there, but the beer tastes fresh to me, cleanses the palate but still has flavor, and i think its my first beer from the land of estonia, so thats always fun. not sure i would buy it again, but in a restaurant context of macro brews, its a fun bottle to drink. definitely a league above most of its peers.
Feb 06, 2015
 
Rated: 3.2 by UniversitateaDeBere from Romania

Feb 04, 2015
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