Deep Original Lager Beer
Pivovara Daruvar d.o.o.
- From:
- Pivovara Daruvar d.o.o.
- Croatia
- Style:
- European Pale Lager
- ABV:
- 3%
- Score:
- +8 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 2.33 | pDev: 8.15%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 1
- Status:
- Inactive
- Rated:
- Aug 20, 2017
- Added:
- Aug 15, 2015
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
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Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by Jugs_McGhee from Texas
2.52/5 rDev +8.2%
look: 2.75 | smell: 2.5 | taste: 2.5 | feel: 2.5 | overall: 2.5
2.52/5 rDev +8.2%
look: 2.75 | smell: 2.5 | taste: 2.5 | feel: 2.5 | overall: 2.5
1st impression (Croatian version; 3% ABV): C / AVERAGE.
***
2nd impression (version produced for Lidl Bulgaria by an unknown brewery; 4% ABV):
2.5 litre plastic bottle with green label and screw-off plastic cap purchased at Lidl for ~2 Leva (i.e. ~1 euro).
A: Pours a ~3cm white cap with a clear copper body. Clean-looking, with no visible yeast. Head retention is above average - ~3-4 minutes.
Sm: Buttery notes indicate potential diacetyl. Generic pale malt sweetness. Generic floral hop character.
Aromatic intensity is average.
Suggests an unbalanced brew riddled with diacetyl off-flavour. Not very appealing, but not repugnant.
T: Matches the aroma. Buttery diacetyl, generic run-of-the-(grain)-mill malted barley sweetness, generic floral hop character. Frankly, it tastes as cheap as it is. But there aren't any metallic off-notes or the like. Hints of adjunct (maybe even corn - though that seems unlikely given its European origin).
Mf: Slightly overcarbonated, but not egregiously so. Smooth, wet, unrefreshing, somewhat stale, plastic-y.
A poor companion to an already problematic flavour profile.
O: It's bottom of the barrel supermarket beer, but I've had worse. The quality is on par with the price point, but you could do better paying cents more per litre for a Polish or Czech offering. Perhaps ironically, contrary to its epithet this is severely lacking in terms of depth of flavour (i.e. it's anything but "Deep"). Would I buy it again? Maybe...if only for its cheapness. And by cheap, I don't merely mean inexpensive. This will meet your low expectations, and as long as that's all you ask of it you won't be disappointed.
Would make a serviceable cooking beer.
High D
Aug 15, 2015***
2nd impression (version produced for Lidl Bulgaria by an unknown brewery; 4% ABV):
2.5 litre plastic bottle with green label and screw-off plastic cap purchased at Lidl for ~2 Leva (i.e. ~1 euro).
A: Pours a ~3cm white cap with a clear copper body. Clean-looking, with no visible yeast. Head retention is above average - ~3-4 minutes.
Sm: Buttery notes indicate potential diacetyl. Generic pale malt sweetness. Generic floral hop character.
Aromatic intensity is average.
Suggests an unbalanced brew riddled with diacetyl off-flavour. Not very appealing, but not repugnant.
T: Matches the aroma. Buttery diacetyl, generic run-of-the-(grain)-mill malted barley sweetness, generic floral hop character. Frankly, it tastes as cheap as it is. But there aren't any metallic off-notes or the like. Hints of adjunct (maybe even corn - though that seems unlikely given its European origin).
Mf: Slightly overcarbonated, but not egregiously so. Smooth, wet, unrefreshing, somewhat stale, plastic-y.
A poor companion to an already problematic flavour profile.
O: It's bottom of the barrel supermarket beer, but I've had worse. The quality is on par with the price point, but you could do better paying cents more per litre for a Polish or Czech offering. Perhaps ironically, contrary to its epithet this is severely lacking in terms of depth of flavour (i.e. it's anything but "Deep"). Would I buy it again? Maybe...if only for its cheapness. And by cheap, I don't merely mean inexpensive. This will meet your low expectations, and as long as that's all you ask of it you won't be disappointed.
Would make a serviceable cooking beer.
High D
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