Bavaria Red
Swinkels Family Brewers
- From:
- Swinkels Family Brewers
- Netherlands
- Style:
- European Strong Lager
- ABV:
- 7.9%
- Score:
- 59
- Avg:
- 2.14 | pDev: 33.64%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 25
- Status:
- Retired
- Rated:
- Jun 02, 2016
- Added:
- May 30, 2004
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 2
SCORE
59
Awful
59
Awful
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Reviewed by BronsonArt from Canada (ON)
1.28/5 rDev -40.2%
look: 2 | smell: 1.5 | taste: 1 | feel: 1.5 | overall: 1.25
1.28/5 rDev -40.2%
look: 2 | smell: 1.5 | taste: 1 | feel: 1.5 | overall: 1.25
This beer gave me one of those double-take moments where you take a sip expecting one thing, then experience something quite different! I thought I mixed up my glass of beer with my son's root beer. It was that bad.
If you like your beer artificial tasting and syrupy-sweet this might just be the one for you. For me, it was the first time in a long time—maybe ever—where I poured the last half down the drain. Glad I just bought the one!
Aug 13, 2015If you like your beer artificial tasting and syrupy-sweet this might just be the one for you. For me, it was the first time in a long time—maybe ever—where I poured the last half down the drain. Glad I just bought the one!
Reviewed by Bunman3 from Canada (AB)
1.64/5 rDev -23.4%
look: 2 | smell: 1.75 | taste: 1.5 | feel: 1.5 | overall: 1.75
1.64/5 rDev -23.4%
look: 2 | smell: 1.75 | taste: 1.5 | feel: 1.5 | overall: 1.75
This is godawful stuff, and it takes a horrific beer to make me cast aspersions. Too much tinny boozy chemical artificial flavour. This is the first beer I've tasted that I would refuse it was offered to me again. Absolutely vile and repugnant.
Mar 02, 2015
Reviewed by thehyperduck from Canada (ON)
2.21/5 rDev +3.3%
look: 4.25 | smell: 2.5 | taste: 2 | feel: 1.5 | overall: 2
2.21/5 rDev +3.3%
look: 4.25 | smell: 2.5 | taste: 2 | feel: 1.5 | overall: 2
500 mL can picked up at TBS; best before Dec. 2014. Served well-chilled, because although (as this review's existence attests) I am a bit of a masochist, I'm not completely batshit crazy.
Pours a surprisingly attractive clear copper-amber colour, topped with just under two fingers of frothy, spongy off-white head. It recedes relatively slowly for the style, with a nice coat of lacing left behind. If nothing else, I can start this review off on a high note because it actually looks pretty great in the glass. The aroma is too boozy for my liking, and has an off-putting solvent note to it; notes of caramel and cherry do little to make up for it. Dread overcomes me...
Sickly sweet, and not in a particularly tolerable way. Caramel is the main flavour, with some oxidised/browned red apple and maraschino cherry notes. Fairly boozy toward the finish, but not the worst offender in this category by a wide margin. It does possess a moderate warming quality. Medium-bodied, with weak carbonation and a slick, gross mouthfeel that coats the palate with each sip. I've had much worse beers, but I still don't really want to finish the glass.
Final Grade: 2.21, a D grade. Bavaria Red is not the sort of beer that should be reviewed. Typing equals time, and once this beer gets warm you might as well pour it down the sink. It's drinkable when ice cold, and from my time served at that liquor store in Edmonton, it would seem that this beer also has the homeless person market cornered. The regular 8.6 is a slightly better beer, and that is not saying very much because they're both atrocities.
Jun 25, 2014Pours a surprisingly attractive clear copper-amber colour, topped with just under two fingers of frothy, spongy off-white head. It recedes relatively slowly for the style, with a nice coat of lacing left behind. If nothing else, I can start this review off on a high note because it actually looks pretty great in the glass. The aroma is too boozy for my liking, and has an off-putting solvent note to it; notes of caramel and cherry do little to make up for it. Dread overcomes me...
Sickly sweet, and not in a particularly tolerable way. Caramel is the main flavour, with some oxidised/browned red apple and maraschino cherry notes. Fairly boozy toward the finish, but not the worst offender in this category by a wide margin. It does possess a moderate warming quality. Medium-bodied, with weak carbonation and a slick, gross mouthfeel that coats the palate with each sip. I've had much worse beers, but I still don't really want to finish the glass.
Final Grade: 2.21, a D grade. Bavaria Red is not the sort of beer that should be reviewed. Typing equals time, and once this beer gets warm you might as well pour it down the sink. It's drinkable when ice cold, and from my time served at that liquor store in Edmonton, it would seem that this beer also has the homeless person market cornered. The regular 8.6 is a slightly better beer, and that is not saying very much because they're both atrocities.
Reviewed by mndlssphlsphr from Washington
1.43/5 rDev -33.2%
look: 2.75 | smell: 1.5 | taste: 1.25 | feel: 1 | overall: 1.5
1.43/5 rDev -33.2%
look: 2.75 | smell: 1.5 | taste: 1.25 | feel: 1 | overall: 1.5
Piss in a can. I never thought that eating food containing red 40 would make me urinate such a concoction. I kid I kid, like a kid of course, and I id like a kid who is clearly two young to drink or appreciate such a product. This is a Dutch joke right, or why else would they use the term 'Bavaria' in the marketing? I must be out of the loop here man ... #hedoesntget_it
It looks alright, but I have no idea what made it look this way. The writing on the wall{can} does not say it at all. Something is afoot. I wonder what.... but this is Panama and everything here comes by crate. When one asks the question, "Who is John Frum?" I am reminded of this beer. Quite frankly this can knocks out a local, but honestly and in a very well intentioned-good-natured way....they don't know no better.
Mar 05, 2013It looks alright, but I have no idea what made it look this way. The writing on the wall{can} does not say it at all. Something is afoot. I wonder what.... but this is Panama and everything here comes by crate. When one asks the question, "Who is John Frum?" I am reminded of this beer. Quite frankly this can knocks out a local, but honestly and in a very well intentioned-good-natured way....they don't know no better.
Reviewed by peensteen from Canada (ON)
1.46/5 rDev -31.8%
look: 3 | smell: 2 | taste: 1 | feel: 2 | overall: 1
1.46/5 rDev -31.8%
look: 3 | smell: 2 | taste: 1 | feel: 2 | overall: 1
Deep red colour, collar of white/off white head, not much in the way of lace. Smell is a mixture of malt and sugar, some fruit is present, but very sweet smelling almost candy like notes mixed with alcohol. The taste is a awful mixture of malt and sugar, some cherry taste and rocket fuel like alcohol...just terrible. Medium carbonation, syrupy and thick feeling, med-full body. This was just horrible, no person should ever have to drink this, I barely got through 1/4 of the tall can before this saw the drain, avoid at all costs.
Apr 17, 2012
Reviewed by wordemupg from Canada (AB)
2.25/5 rDev +5.1%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 1.5 | feel: 2 | overall: 2
2.25/5 rDev +5.1%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 1.5 | feel: 2 | overall: 2
can dumped into pint glass 11/10/11
A clear pinkish copper with a fair amount of bubbles feeding a short lived thumbs width of tan head that leaves a little polka dot lacing
S smells like caramel covered cherries and some booze, perhaps a little cough syrup and we all know how much I love cough syrup
T metallic booze with some nail polish remover, and not tasty nail polish remover either, I'm talking bad nasty boozy sickly sweet yuck
M sweet boozy heat and a lovely chemical aftertaste that reminds me that drinking stuff under the sink may have been a better idea
O the smell fooled me for a moment but after tasting it I was sure that this is nothing worth trying again
I like getting blackout drunk as much as the next guy but have a little class while waking up in a chicken coup, what dose remorse taste like again?
Nov 11, 2011A clear pinkish copper with a fair amount of bubbles feeding a short lived thumbs width of tan head that leaves a little polka dot lacing
S smells like caramel covered cherries and some booze, perhaps a little cough syrup and we all know how much I love cough syrup
T metallic booze with some nail polish remover, and not tasty nail polish remover either, I'm talking bad nasty boozy sickly sweet yuck
M sweet boozy heat and a lovely chemical aftertaste that reminds me that drinking stuff under the sink may have been a better idea
O the smell fooled me for a moment but after tasting it I was sure that this is nothing worth trying again
I like getting blackout drunk as much as the next guy but have a little class while waking up in a chicken coup, what dose remorse taste like again?
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