Barada
Barada Beer Company
- From:
- Barada Beer Company
- Syria
- Style:
- American Adjunct Lager
- ABV:
- 3.5%
- Score:
- +7 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 2.1 | pDev: 9.05%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 1
- Status:
- Retired
- Rated:
- May 10, 2016
- Added:
- Aug 14, 2007
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
NO SCORE
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No description / notes.
Recent ratings and reviews.
Rated by misternebbie from Pennsylvania
2.21/5 rDev +5.2%
look: 2.25 | smell: 3 | taste: 1.5 | feel: 2.5 | overall: 2.5
2.21/5 rDev +5.2%
look: 2.25 | smell: 3 | taste: 1.5 | feel: 2.5 | overall: 2.5
Just ok fare nothing but an ok brew
May 10, 2016
Reviewed by lacqueredmouse from Australia
1.83/5 rDev -12.9%
look: 3 | smell: 2.5 | taste: 1.5 | feel: 1.5 | overall: 1.5
1.83/5 rDev -12.9%
look: 3 | smell: 2.5 | taste: 1.5 | feel: 1.5 | overall: 1.5
ABV is listed as "3.5 - 5.5%" (Density 11%). My guess is it's pretty inconsistent. Ingredients listed as Malt, Water and Hop Flower. Also says "Bad storing is not our responsibility" twice on the can.
It's actually a pretty funky looking black and white Mondrian-style can, with a large, foam-topped "B" and "Beer Barada" prominent. Says "serve cool" (and "Bad storing is not our responsibility" again - are they covering themselves for the inevitable really bad batch? No, no! It's was stored incorrectly!)
Anyway, to the beer...
Can foamed on opening, pours a slightly hazy lemon yellow, with one finger of white foam. Moderate amount of large-bubbled carbonation. Lacing is AWOL.
Funky sour metallic aroma on the nose, maybe a bit like solder. Bit of sweetness, honeylike and candy. As it opens up, it's prominently sweet, rather than the initial funk - I think it's right, but I dread to think what an "improperly stored" one smells like.
Quite sweet palate, with a tang of metallic bitterness near the end. The sweet honey syrup-characters are most prominent, however. It ends up tasting like fermentation never quite finished. It really does have strong characteristics of that bane of the beer world: alcohol-free beer. It needs more bitterness of something to make it sharper and more refreshing.
In the end, this beer ends up tasting like it was brewed by someone who'd never really tasted beer before, and was brewing for the first time from a recipe book. It's a curiosity as a Syrian beer, but even in Syria you can get better offerings from Egypt, Lebanon or Jordan (granted, not a LOT better). Try one for the novelty, then stay away for ever after.
Like the can, don't like the beer.
Aug 14, 2007It's actually a pretty funky looking black and white Mondrian-style can, with a large, foam-topped "B" and "Beer Barada" prominent. Says "serve cool" (and "Bad storing is not our responsibility" again - are they covering themselves for the inevitable really bad batch? No, no! It's was stored incorrectly!)
Anyway, to the beer...
Can foamed on opening, pours a slightly hazy lemon yellow, with one finger of white foam. Moderate amount of large-bubbled carbonation. Lacing is AWOL.
Funky sour metallic aroma on the nose, maybe a bit like solder. Bit of sweetness, honeylike and candy. As it opens up, it's prominently sweet, rather than the initial funk - I think it's right, but I dread to think what an "improperly stored" one smells like.
Quite sweet palate, with a tang of metallic bitterness near the end. The sweet honey syrup-characters are most prominent, however. It ends up tasting like fermentation never quite finished. It really does have strong characteristics of that bane of the beer world: alcohol-free beer. It needs more bitterness of something to make it sharper and more refreshing.
In the end, this beer ends up tasting like it was brewed by someone who'd never really tasted beer before, and was brewing for the first time from a recipe book. It's a curiosity as a Syrian beer, but even in Syria you can get better offerings from Egypt, Lebanon or Jordan (granted, not a LOT better). Try one for the novelty, then stay away for ever after.
Like the can, don't like the beer.
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