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Beck's Sapphire
Brauerei Beck & Co.
- From:
- Brauerei Beck & Co.
- Germany
- Style:
- German Pilsner
Ranked #656 - ABV:
- 6%
- Score:
- 65
Ranked #28,315 - Avg:
- 2.77 | pDev: 23.47%
- Reviews:
- 154
- Ratings:
- Status:
- Active
- Rated:
- Nov 09, 2023
- Added:
- Dec 21, 2012
- Wants:
- 10
- Gots:
- 108
No description / notes.
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Ratings by gardner254:
Rated by gardner254 from Ohio
2.87/5 rDev +3.6%
look: 3 | smell: 2.75 | taste: 3 | feel: 2.75 | overall: 2.75
Oct 13, 2015
2.87/5 rDev +3.6%
look: 3 | smell: 2.75 | taste: 3 | feel: 2.75 | overall: 2.75
Oct 13, 2015
More User Ratings:
Reviewed by stevoj from Idaho
2.93/5 rDev +5.8%
look: 2.75 | smell: 2.75 | taste: 3 | feel: 3 | overall: 3
2.93/5 rDev +5.8%
look: 2.75 | smell: 2.75 | taste: 3 | feel: 3 | overall: 3
Average (well, less than average) lager. Don’t be fooled by the Beck’s name, it’s Bud. This was also brewed in Germany, and probably better. Weak aroma and taste, dull appearance, another weak North American pale lager.
Nov 09, 2023Rated by crazyspicychef from Pennsylvania
1.72/5 rDev -37.9%
look: 4.5 | smell: 1.25 | taste: 1.25 | feel: 2.5 | overall: 2
1.72/5 rDev -37.9%
look: 4.5 | smell: 1.25 | taste: 1.25 | feel: 2.5 | overall: 2
Imported malt liquor.
For those who are "too special" to drink Mickey's.
Apr 25, 2021For those who are "too special" to drink Mickey's.
Rated by 01WaterFall from Kentucky
4.26/5 rDev +53.8%
look: 4 | smell: 3 | taste: 5 | feel: 4 | overall: 4.5
4.26/5 rDev +53.8%
look: 4 | smell: 3 | taste: 5 | feel: 4 | overall: 4.5
Becks Sapphire beer is amazing leaves me calm and collect. Love it a lot!!!!
Oct 09, 2017Reviewed by kurtbart from Florida
4.65/5 rDev +67.9%
look: 4.75 | smell: 4 | taste: 5 | feel: 5 | overall: 4.5
4.65/5 rDev +67.9%
look: 4.75 | smell: 4 | taste: 5 | feel: 5 | overall: 4.5
This beer is better at room temperature, or slightly warmer. The first couple of sips bite back, then it is as smooth as any other. I have a hard time finding it, but get it every time I do find it.
Jul 08, 2017Reviewed by mothmanscott from Georgia
2.78/5 rDev +0.4%
look: 3 | smell: 2.5 | taste: 2.75 | feel: 3 | overall: 3
2.78/5 rDev +0.4%
look: 3 | smell: 2.5 | taste: 2.75 | feel: 3 | overall: 3
Pours a clear & effervescent gold producing 1.5 fingers of rapidly diminishing, fizzy, champagne-like, shimmering white head that leaves no lace. Aroma is grainy pale malt, butter, perfumey floral & faintly grassy hops. Taste is sweet, bready grain, white fruits (pear & white grape?), butter & dry from the beginning of the sip to the bittersweet aftertaste. Pale malt, fruit & butter run the length of the sip. Hops are weak floral/herbal, spice & thin grass & citrus most of which are in the latter third of the sip and finish (not very Noble like, which my reading tells me 2 of the Saphir hop parental lines were). Alcohol in the mouth is quite prominent for a 6% ABV. Mouthfeel is light-medium bodied with medium carbonation, although a bit thin it exhibits a slick quality while at the same time is a little crisp, begins smooth but rapidly gravitates toward being grainy, even prickly on the tongue. Not much balance in the mouth or nose. Reminds me more of some English pale ales I've had more than any German pilsner sampled to date. I have a feeling that the bottle I sampled may have suffered from slight oxidation.
Feb 08, 2017Reviewed by Schlitz74 from Illinois
1.78/5 rDev -35.7%
look: 2 | smell: 2 | taste: 1.5 | feel: 1.75 | overall: 2
1.78/5 rDev -35.7%
look: 2 | smell: 2 | taste: 1.5 | feel: 1.75 | overall: 2
Pours a golden colors with head that fades quickly, there is little lacing left on the glass. Like other have said the is a strong booziness in the finish. This is not a well crafted beer.
Feb 06, 2017Reviewed by KeeKee from Michigan
4.47/5 rDev +61.4%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4.75 | feel: 4.75 | overall: 4.75
4.47/5 rDev +61.4%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4.75 | feel: 4.75 | overall: 4.75
I Love this Beer!!!! I tried it over the weekend In Chicago, IL and it was love @ first taste. For all the crappy reviews I'm reading, I couldn't tell it was disliked in Chi Town. We had to go from store to store to find it . Finlly found it and the store only had two cases so I bought them back to Detroit, MI.....Wish they sold it in my neighborhood .....I enjoyed the look, the taste was smooth without and after taste and the smell was not loud at all. Maybe this beer was made for the LADIES.....
Oct 05, 2016Reviewed by NastyNorseman from New York
2.71/5 rDev -2.2%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3 | taste: 2.5 | feel: 2.25 | overall: 2.75
2.71/5 rDev -2.2%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3 | taste: 2.5 | feel: 2.25 | overall: 2.75
One of my least favorite beers. Looks were deceiving with this brew. Golden, clear with bubbly head. Dissappears completely as does lacing. Warning signs! Smells of booze and malt. I had to strain searching to find the hops but to no avail. Booze overwhelmed the flavor of this medium-bodied, GMO-suggesting monstrosity. This was a lab experiment gone wrong. Finished boozey and sweet...yuck!
Sep 15, 2016
Beck's Sapphire from Brauerei Beck & Co.
Beer rating:
65 out of
100 with
580 ratings
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