Bavaria Lemon Radler
Swinkels Family Brewers
- From:
- Swinkels Family Brewers
- Netherlands
- Style:
- Fruit and Field Beer
- ABV:
- 2%
- Score:
- 75
- Avg:
- 2.73 | pDev: 31.14%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 2
- Status:
- Inactive
- Rated:
- Nov 29, 2020
- Added:
- Dec 03, 2013
- Wants:
- 1
- Gots:
- 6
SCORE
75
Okay
75
Okay
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Reviewed by jazzyjeff13 from England
2.79/5 rDev +2.2%
look: 3 | smell: 2.75 | taste: 2.75 | feel: 3 | overall: 2.75
2.79/5 rDev +2.2%
look: 3 | smell: 2.75 | taste: 2.75 | feel: 3 | overall: 2.75
A 500ml can with a BB of Dec 2014. Picked up recently from a B&M store as it has been quite summery recently.
Poured into a straight pint glass. A clear straw colour with good carbonation. Forms a large head of creamy white foam that lasts for a moment or two before dissipating. Aroma of mild lemonade and weak lager with hints of sugar, lemon extract and faint stewed leaves. Not much going on.
Tastes of sweet lemonade with a faint hint of lager. Notes of sugar, lemon extract, weak lager and a touch of stewed leaves in the background. Mouthfeel is light and tingly, with prickly carbonation and a thin, watery body. Aftertaste of mild lemonade.
Meh - drinkable but unimpressive. Mostly resembles lemonade with a twinge of beer mixed in. Very sweet and quite artificial. Body is about par for this type of brew. OK in hot weather but not a great beer and hardly the best example of the style. No need to hunt it down.
May 25, 2014Poured into a straight pint glass. A clear straw colour with good carbonation. Forms a large head of creamy white foam that lasts for a moment or two before dissipating. Aroma of mild lemonade and weak lager with hints of sugar, lemon extract and faint stewed leaves. Not much going on.
Tastes of sweet lemonade with a faint hint of lager. Notes of sugar, lemon extract, weak lager and a touch of stewed leaves in the background. Mouthfeel is light and tingly, with prickly carbonation and a thin, watery body. Aftertaste of mild lemonade.
Meh - drinkable but unimpressive. Mostly resembles lemonade with a twinge of beer mixed in. Very sweet and quite artificial. Body is about par for this type of brew. OK in hot weather but not a great beer and hardly the best example of the style. No need to hunt it down.
Reviewed by biboergosum from Canada (AB)
2.24/5 rDev -17.9%
look: 3 | smell: 2.75 | taste: 2 | feel: 1.5 | overall: 2.25
2.24/5 rDev -17.9%
look: 3 | smell: 2.75 | taste: 2 | feel: 1.5 | overall: 2.25
500ml can, hot on the heels of the grapefruit version, and once again a 50/50 blend of extract-heavy (this is Bavaria, after all) lager, and lemonade.
This beer pours a clear, pale golden yellow colour, with three fingers of puffy, shiny, and weakly foamy off-white head, which leaves some adequate contrails of sudsy lace around the glass as it quickly dissolves.
It smells of lemon-lime soda, a hint of grainy malt, free-radical sucrose or something of the sort, and an indistinct musty earthiness. The taste is saccharine lemon, like the filling in a lemon meringue pie, with only the slightest suggestion of the acidic offset necessary to keep my tongue from fuzzing up. I suppose there's some equally sugary malt and its adjunct friends in there, but it's hard to really give a shit by this point.
The bubbles are pretty low-key, and incapable of matching the heft of the sugar here, the body big and clammy, whose medium weight is equally stricken by the same sugar influence. It finishes sweet, sweet, and sweet, even the lemon starting to fade under all those -oses.
While not actually putrid, nor the 'flavour' all that bad, the pure sugary nature of this offering is off-putting at best. The lemon is denuded of its natural acidity, almost completely, and honey, that just ain't right, and renders this rather difficult to drink. It feels like it's just missing a big cup of soft shaved ice, so I could at least enjoy a faintly boozy Slurpee.
Dec 03, 2013This beer pours a clear, pale golden yellow colour, with three fingers of puffy, shiny, and weakly foamy off-white head, which leaves some adequate contrails of sudsy lace around the glass as it quickly dissolves.
It smells of lemon-lime soda, a hint of grainy malt, free-radical sucrose or something of the sort, and an indistinct musty earthiness. The taste is saccharine lemon, like the filling in a lemon meringue pie, with only the slightest suggestion of the acidic offset necessary to keep my tongue from fuzzing up. I suppose there's some equally sugary malt and its adjunct friends in there, but it's hard to really give a shit by this point.
The bubbles are pretty low-key, and incapable of matching the heft of the sugar here, the body big and clammy, whose medium weight is equally stricken by the same sugar influence. It finishes sweet, sweet, and sweet, even the lemon starting to fade under all those -oses.
While not actually putrid, nor the 'flavour' all that bad, the pure sugary nature of this offering is off-putting at best. The lemon is denuded of its natural acidity, almost completely, and honey, that just ain't right, and renders this rather difficult to drink. It feels like it's just missing a big cup of soft shaved ice, so I could at least enjoy a faintly boozy Slurpee.
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