Balashi | Brouwerij Nacional Balashi

3.11/5  rDev +9.5%
look: 2.75 | smell: 3 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3

2.75/5  rDev -3.2%
look: 2.75 | smell: 2.75 | taste: 2.75 | feel: 2.75 | overall: 2.75

3.13/5  rDev +10.2%
look: 3.25 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 3 | feel: 3 | overall: 3.25

2.02/5  rDev -28.9%
look: 2.25 | smell: 2 | taste: 2 | feel: 2 | overall: 2

3.08/5  rDev +8.5%
look: 2.75 | smell: 2.75 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3

2.01/5  rDev -29.2%
look: 2 | smell: 2.25 | taste: 2 | feel: 2 | overall: 1.75

Aruba's corona. Very watery.

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2.78/5  rDev -2.1%
look: 3 | smell: 2.5 | taste: 3 | feel: 2.5 | overall: 2.75

2.25/5  rDev -20.8%
look: 3 | smell: 1.75 | taste: 2 | feel: 3 | overall: 2.75

3.13/5  rDev +10.2%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3 | overall: 3

2.59/5  rDev -8.8%
look: 2 | smell: 3 | taste: 2.5 | feel: 2.5 | overall: 2.5

2.25/5  rDev -20.8%
look: 2.25 | smell: 2.25 | taste: 2.25 | feel: 2.25 | overall: 2.25

2.68/5  rDev -5.6%
look: 2.5 | smell: 2.5 | taste: 2.75 | feel: 2.75 | overall: 2.75

3.12/5  rDev +9.9%
look: 3.25 | smell: 3 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3 | overall: 3

3.19/5  rDev +12.3%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3 | overall: 3

5/5  rDev +76.1%
look: 5 | smell: 5 | taste: 5 | feel: 5 | overall: 5

Looks like Aruba.
Tastes like Aruba.
Smells like Aruba.
Feels like Aruba.

When I have a bucket of Balashis waiting for me back at my palapa, I know that life is good.

I give it a 5.

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2.88/5  rDev +1.4%
look: 4.25 | smell: 3 | taste: 2.75 | feel: 2.5 | overall: 2.75

3.08/5  rDev +8.5%
look: 3 | smell: 3 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 2.75 | overall: 3

2.92/5  rDev +2.8%
look: 3.25 | smell: 3 | taste: 3 | feel: 3 | overall: 2.5

3/5  rDev +5.6%
look: 3 | smell: 3 | taste: 3 | feel: 3 | overall: 3

2.57/5  rDev -9.5%
look: 2 | smell: 2.5 | taste: 2.5 | feel: 2.5 | overall: 3

3.52/5  rDev +23.9%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3.25

When in Aruba, this is the beer to drink (when not at Madame Janette's http://www.madamejanette.info/joomla2/menu/special-beers ). Clean, crisp, and easy to drink while on the beach. A simple lager, brewed with Aruba's excellent water. You can get Heinekin and Corona at home, so why not drink this. Comes in little bottles, which disappear quickly, so buy it by the case at the local supermarkets.

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2.44/5  rDev -14.1%
look: 3.75 | smell: 2.75 | taste: 2 | feel: 3 | overall: 2.25

LOOK: Deep yellow color bordering on light golden, good clarity. Soapy head forms and retains well along the glass. Looks good.

SMELL: Adjuncts and malts, pungent hops, slight vegetal, husk. Euro lager smell.

TASTE: Malt and corn give the grainy flavor, faint bitterness, and slightly sour. Euro pale lager on the low end. Either way not particularly clean or memorable, there is once again the cooked veggie, dimethyl sulfate presence. That needs cleaned up for sure. Its very common and plain lager.

FEEL: Light crisp body, ample carbonation. Aftertaste of hop and vegetable.

OVERALL: A ho-hum beach beer from the Aruban brewery. Its not flashy or very tasty at all, but it would get the job done if nothing else were to be found.

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2.81/5  rDev -1.1%
look: 2.75 | smell: 3 | taste: 2.75 | feel: 2.75 | overall: 2.75

2.75/5  rDev -3.2%
look: 3 | smell: 3 | taste: 2.5 | feel: 3 | overall: 2.75

3.03/5  rDev +6.7%
look: 2.5 | smell: 2.5 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3.25

Poured from a can so this had no skunkiness and resembled so many of the style. Classic Pilsner malts with a dry cracker flavor. Very watery feel so it's ideal for the beach but it didn't drowned the malt flavor.

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