Cara Pils
Brasserie Piedboeuf

 

On the road from Oostende to Bremen, 21/7 2023. 33 cl can from a kiosk on Van Iseghemlaan, Oostende. White can with a pattern of corn in brown and a red stripe with the name of the beer in white letters.

Pours clear golden yellow with a mid-sized white head. Stable. Settles as thin - almost transparent - layer of foam just covering the surface of the beer. Clinging to the sides of the glass. No lacing.

Aroma is medium intense with a sweet malty odor mingling with sourish grains. Sweet pale malts, bread, salty pringels and a whiff of sulfur. Sourish grainy notes.

Light carbonation. Slightly thick, oily, soft, lightly tingling texture.

Flavor is medium intense with a medium strong sweetness followed by a slightly more moderate bitterness. Aftertaste is bitter. Lingers for a bit. Finish is rather dry.

Decent and pretty straight forward Lager beer. As a “everyday beer” it tries to manage expectations.

Best beer ever (for alcohol based games like lakes) but anyway true legendary beer, really cost-effective, the guy rated it 1,27 is a bitch
Best buzz for your buck

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I drank a can of this beer at a friend's place, he hated them, but didn't want to throw them away. It is a beer generally drunk by homeless people on the street, to give you an idea. It looks like a regualr pils beer, although much lighter. It has a very unfresh smell, and the flavor is awful. Can't really put my finge rto what it is eaxctly, but I never tatsed something like that before. The beer also leaves a very penetrating flavor and felling in the mouth Definitely the worst beer I ever drank.

Cara Pils is generally drank because it is the cheapest beer available in the Belgian market. Thus is carries a bit of a stigma in Belgium. People drink this for the sale purpose of getting drunk as cheaply as possible when they have absolutely no money. It is crap but it is ridiculously cheap. I mean, really, really cheap, buying an equal amount of water at the supermarket costs more money than this beer.

Second note, I believe that Piedboeuf doesn’t brew this. No one actually brews Cara Pils, they just buy this stuff from whatever brewery makes it the cheapest. Sometimes contracts change, I have heard that they put failed batches from several pils brewers into this stuff, probably including stuff from Piedboeuf. The French brewery Champigneulles (TCB Beverages) who specializes in this kinds of beers most likely makes most of this stuff, these days.

Review: Bright, clear, golden, urine-coloured with little brief white head. Musty, wet corn in the nose, hay, dirty water, rotting lemon,… Watery, corn wet and dusty, rotting hay, light rotting, touch metallic, rotting lemon, expired medication, unnerving bitterness,… bitter disgusting aftertaste. Wattery. Not very good, touch better than expected.