Salva Vida | Cerveceria Hondurena, S.A. / BevCo Ltd
Brewed by:
Cerveceria Hondurena, S.A. / BevCo Ltd
Honduras
Style: American Adjunct Lager
Alcohol by volume (ABV): 4.80%
Availability: Year-round
Notes / Commercial Description:
No notes at this time.
Added by jackndan on 08-06-2002
Ratings: 90 | Reviews: 39
2.96/5 rDev +8%
look: 3.75 | smell: 2.75 | taste: 3 | feel: 2.75 | overall: 3
look: 3.75 | smell: 2.75 | taste: 3 | feel: 2.75 | overall: 3
3.42/5 rDev +24.8%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
Poured from a 12 oz can into a pint glass at the Taco Mac in Atlanta, GA. The appearance is a straw color with a small white head. The aroma is all grain. The taste was very metallic but the presence of grain was very heavy also. An average beer.
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look: 3.75 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
Poured from a 12 oz can into a pint glass at the Taco Mac in Atlanta, GA. The appearance is a straw color with a small white head. The aroma is all grain. The taste was very metallic but the presence of grain was very heavy also. An average beer.
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2.5/5 rDev -8.8%
look: 2.5 | smell: 2.5 | taste: 2.5 | feel: 2.5 | overall: 2.5
look: 2.5 | smell: 2.5 | taste: 2.5 | feel: 2.5 | overall: 2.5
2.34/5 rDev -14.6%
look: 2.5 | smell: 2.25 | taste: 2.25 | feel: 2.5 | overall: 2.5
look: 2.5 | smell: 2.25 | taste: 2.25 | feel: 2.5 | overall: 2.5
2.62/5 rDev -4.4%
look: 3.75 | smell: 2.25 | taste: 2.25 | feel: 3 | overall: 3.25
look: 3.75 | smell: 2.25 | taste: 2.25 | feel: 3 | overall: 3.25
2.97/5 rDev +8.4%
look: 3 | smell: 2.75 | taste: 3 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3
Pours a clear, straw color. 1/4 inch head of a white color. Decent retention and decent lacing. Smells of strong adjunct, pale malt, sugar, and a hint of hop. Fits the style of an American Adjunct Lager. Mouth feel is sharp and crisp, with an average carbonation level. There is also a distinct dryness. Tastes of strong adjunct, sugar, hint of hop, hint of metallic, and hint of pale malt. Overall, and average adjunct.
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look: 3 | smell: 2.75 | taste: 3 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3
Pours a clear, straw color. 1/4 inch head of a white color. Decent retention and decent lacing. Smells of strong adjunct, pale malt, sugar, and a hint of hop. Fits the style of an American Adjunct Lager. Mouth feel is sharp and crisp, with an average carbonation level. There is also a distinct dryness. Tastes of strong adjunct, sugar, hint of hop, hint of metallic, and hint of pale malt. Overall, and average adjunct.
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3.2/5 rDev +16.8%
look: 4 | smell: 2.75 | taste: 3 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 3.25
12oz. bottle served in a willibecker. Pours a translucent yellow with a loose, half inch, bright white head the slowly recedes into a soapy slick. Nose is dull but adjuncts are definitely detectable, as well as a faint metallic quality. Taste consistent with nose - lots of corn and more adjuncts. Mouthfeel is light in body with a lively carbonation shy of crisp - perfect body for a hot summer day. Overall - not bad for the style; however, there are better adjunct lagers out there.
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look: 4 | smell: 2.75 | taste: 3 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 3.25
12oz. bottle served in a willibecker. Pours a translucent yellow with a loose, half inch, bright white head the slowly recedes into a soapy slick. Nose is dull but adjuncts are definitely detectable, as well as a faint metallic quality. Taste consistent with nose - lots of corn and more adjuncts. Mouthfeel is light in body with a lively carbonation shy of crisp - perfect body for a hot summer day. Overall - not bad for the style; however, there are better adjunct lagers out there.
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2.63/5 rDev -4%
look: 2.5 | smell: 2.5 | taste: 2.75 | feel: 2.75 | overall: 2.5
look: 2.5 | smell: 2.5 | taste: 2.75 | feel: 2.75 | overall: 2.5
2.85/5 rDev +4%
look: 2.75 | smell: 2.75 | taste: 3 | feel: 2.75 | overall: 2.75
Your first one, ice cold, at the beach, feels a bit like a Red Stripe. But it's down hill from there.
All the same - perhaps ties w port royal for best honduran beer. They're all adjunct watery grain beers.
Appearance: a pale yellow color with a lot of effervescence. Head pours a finger of white foam that actually delivers some lace.
Smell: Typical adjunct, grassy and grain. Cereals and faint.
Taste: Starts off the best of the Honduran beers, with a malty flavor that offers grass, lemon and a bit of hoppy cleansing in the finish
F: Very light body with a lots of carbonation. Dry enough, scrubbing finish.
O: Lawn-mower, beach beer.
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look: 2.75 | smell: 2.75 | taste: 3 | feel: 2.75 | overall: 2.75
Your first one, ice cold, at the beach, feels a bit like a Red Stripe. But it's down hill from there.
All the same - perhaps ties w port royal for best honduran beer. They're all adjunct watery grain beers.
Appearance: a pale yellow color with a lot of effervescence. Head pours a finger of white foam that actually delivers some lace.
Smell: Typical adjunct, grassy and grain. Cereals and faint.
Taste: Starts off the best of the Honduran beers, with a malty flavor that offers grass, lemon and a bit of hoppy cleansing in the finish
F: Very light body with a lots of carbonation. Dry enough, scrubbing finish.
O: Lawn-mower, beach beer.
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3.81/5 rDev +39.1%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 3.75
look: 3.5 | smell: 3 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 3.75
2.3/5 rDev -16.1%
look: 3 | smell: 2.25 | taste: 2.25 | feel: 2.25 | overall: 2.25
Poured from can into pint glass. It pours a pale golden-yellow with a thin, milk-white head and minimal lacing. There is little discernible smell: a little grass, some grain, and a whiff of citrus. It may be that it was poured from a can but it has a rather funky, and unpleasant, taste. It's like a weak light beer with a metallic taste. It is very light and watery with moderate carbonation. Although the ABV is low, I cannot imagine drinking enough of this for it to matter. I want to be fair but I don't find any redeeming quality in this lager. Perhaps if served fresh and on draught it would be better.
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look: 3 | smell: 2.25 | taste: 2.25 | feel: 2.25 | overall: 2.25
Poured from can into pint glass. It pours a pale golden-yellow with a thin, milk-white head and minimal lacing. There is little discernible smell: a little grass, some grain, and a whiff of citrus. It may be that it was poured from a can but it has a rather funky, and unpleasant, taste. It's like a weak light beer with a metallic taste. It is very light and watery with moderate carbonation. Although the ABV is low, I cannot imagine drinking enough of this for it to matter. I want to be fair but I don't find any redeeming quality in this lager. Perhaps if served fresh and on draught it would be better.
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2.43/5 rDev -11.3%
look: 2 | smell: 2 | taste: 2.75 | feel: 2.75 | overall: 2.25
Ultimately, it's difficult to separate this beer from the memories that accompany it. This was the sole beer on the backpackers' island of Utila where I learned to scuba dive, and chilling with the dive buddies on a pier overlooking the beach after a long day on the reef is a recipe for overstating the merits of a thoroughly mediocre beer.
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look: 2 | smell: 2 | taste: 2.75 | feel: 2.75 | overall: 2.25
Ultimately, it's difficult to separate this beer from the memories that accompany it. This was the sole beer on the backpackers' island of Utila where I learned to scuba dive, and chilling with the dive buddies on a pier overlooking the beach after a long day on the reef is a recipe for overstating the merits of a thoroughly mediocre beer.
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1.57/5 rDev -42.7%
look: 2 | smell: 1.75 | taste: 1.25 | feel: 2.25 | overall: 1.5
October 30th, 2013 - It's a pity that I can't attach photos to my reviews, because what we have here is a half-empty bottle of Salva Vida, and in the background is a Honduran scuba diving site. There's a wooden pier leading out to a open air structure where divers train tourists like us not to drown in shallow water. And after we succeed, there's a small bar waiting for your, serving up Salva Vida. Is it a good beer? No. But here at West End Dovers, and after a morning in the ocean, the sweet and heavy palate of this lager tastes good against the accumulated sea water on my lips.
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look: 2 | smell: 1.75 | taste: 1.25 | feel: 2.25 | overall: 1.5
October 30th, 2013 - It's a pity that I can't attach photos to my reviews, because what we have here is a half-empty bottle of Salva Vida, and in the background is a Honduran scuba diving site. There's a wooden pier leading out to a open air structure where divers train tourists like us not to drown in shallow water. And after we succeed, there's a small bar waiting for your, serving up Salva Vida. Is it a good beer? No. But here at West End Dovers, and after a morning in the ocean, the sweet and heavy palate of this lager tastes good against the accumulated sea water on my lips.
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2.44/5 rDev -10.9%
look: 2.5 | smell: 2.25 | taste: 2.5 | feel: 2.5 | overall: 2.5
look: 2.5 | smell: 2.25 | taste: 2.5 | feel: 2.5 | overall: 2.5
4.4/5 rDev +60.6%
look: 4.5 | smell: 5 | taste: 4 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.5
GOOD the best of Honduras
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look: 4.5 | smell: 5 | taste: 4 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.5
GOOD the best of Honduras
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2.75/5 rDev +0.4%
look: 4 | smell: 2.75 | taste: 2.5 | feel: 3 | overall: 2.75
Poured into a frosteg mug- hard to see through the ice. Very metallic tasting, which overpowers the crispness associated with lagers. Maybe not the "life saver" the beer purports to be.
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look: 4 | smell: 2.75 | taste: 2.5 | feel: 3 | overall: 2.75
Poured into a frosteg mug- hard to see through the ice. Very metallic tasting, which overpowers the crispness associated with lagers. Maybe not the "life saver" the beer purports to be.
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2.2/5 rDev -19.7%
look: 2.75 | smell: 2 | taste: 2.25 | feel: 2.5 | overall: 2
look: 2.75 | smell: 2 | taste: 2.25 | feel: 2.5 | overall: 2
2.68/5 rDev -2.2%
look: 2.5 | smell: 2.5 | taste: 2.75 | feel: 2.75 | overall: 2.75
Similar to the port royal but cleaner.
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look: 2.5 | smell: 2.5 | taste: 2.75 | feel: 2.75 | overall: 2.75
Similar to the port royal but cleaner.
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2.35/5 rDev -14.2%
look: 2.5 | smell: 2.5 | taste: 2.25 | feel: 2.5 | overall: 2.25
look: 2.5 | smell: 2.5 | taste: 2.25 | feel: 2.5 | overall: 2.25
Salva Vida from Cerveceria Hondurena, S.A. / BevCo Ltd
2.74
out of 5
based on 90 ratings.
look: 2.75 | smell: 2.75 | taste: 2.75 | feel: 2.75 | overall: 2.75