Bergbrau Pale Ale
Privatbrauerei H. Egerer
- From:
- Privatbrauerei H. Egerer
- Germany
- Style:
- English Pale Ale
Ranked #235 - ABV:
- 4.1%
- Score:
- 78
Ranked #37,508 - Avg:
- 3.3 | pDev: 11.21%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 11
- Status:
- Active
- Rated:
- Jul 15, 2025
- Added:
- Dec 05, 2017
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 3
SCORE
78
Okay
78
Okay
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Rated by ttoadee from Texas
3.1/5 rDev -6.1%
look: 3 | smell: 3 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3 | overall: 3
3.1/5 rDev -6.1%
look: 3 | smell: 3 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3 | overall: 3
RB transfer
Jul 15, 2025
Rated by Tom_Hoover from Texas
3.06/5 rDev -7.3%
look: 4 | smell: 3 | taste: 3 | feel: 3 | overall: 3
3.06/5 rDev -7.3%
look: 4 | smell: 3 | taste: 3 | feel: 3 | overall: 3
Ok taste
Dec 22, 2019
Reviewed by Ozzylizard from Pennsylvania
3.03/5 rDev -8.2%
look: 3 | smell: 3 | taste: 3 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3
3.03/5 rDev -8.2%
look: 3 | smell: 3 | taste: 3 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3
$ 2.50 (Including tax)/500 mL can ($0.148/oz) from Costco, Schertz, TX. Part of the Costco 2019 Advent Calendar. Reviewed 11/08/19.
Can dated “EXP 05/2021”. Stored on the shelf at the store, stored at home at 42 degrees and served at 55 degrees in a hand washed and dried imperial pint.
Appearance – 3.
First pour – Very light yellow, clear.
Body – Light yellow, slight haze. Note: second pour produces a yellow, hazily opaque body somewhat thinner than a NEIPA.
Head – Large (Maximum fourteen cm, stabilizing at six, aggressive center pour), white, medium density, average retention, eventually diminishing to a ragged ten mm crown and complete cap. Small three-dimensional islands of tiny to small-bubbled lacing remain hanging on the glass as the head recedes.
Lacing – Fair. Partial sheet of tiny to small bubbles remain.
Aroma – 3 - Very weak lemony hops.
Flavor – 3 – Begins and ends slightly sweet and malty but does not taste like caramel – a bit fruity. No hops. No alcohol (4.1 % ABV as marked on the can) flavor or aroma, no diacetyl, no dimethylsulfide.
Palate – 3.25 – Medium, watery, soft carbonation.
Final impression and summation: 3. Very average.
Nov 08, 2019Can dated “EXP 05/2021”. Stored on the shelf at the store, stored at home at 42 degrees and served at 55 degrees in a hand washed and dried imperial pint.
Appearance – 3.
First pour – Very light yellow, clear.
Body – Light yellow, slight haze. Note: second pour produces a yellow, hazily opaque body somewhat thinner than a NEIPA.
Head – Large (Maximum fourteen cm, stabilizing at six, aggressive center pour), white, medium density, average retention, eventually diminishing to a ragged ten mm crown and complete cap. Small three-dimensional islands of tiny to small-bubbled lacing remain hanging on the glass as the head recedes.
Lacing – Fair. Partial sheet of tiny to small bubbles remain.
Aroma – 3 - Very weak lemony hops.
Flavor – 3 – Begins and ends slightly sweet and malty but does not taste like caramel – a bit fruity. No hops. No alcohol (4.1 % ABV as marked on the can) flavor or aroma, no diacetyl, no dimethylsulfide.
Palate – 3.25 – Medium, watery, soft carbonation.
Final impression and summation: 3. Very average.
Reviewed by Jugs_McGhee from Texas
2.65/5 rDev -19.7%
look: 2.75 | smell: 2.75 | taste: 2.5 | feel: 2.75 | overall: 2.75
2.65/5 rDev -19.7%
look: 2.75 | smell: 2.75 | taste: 2.5 | feel: 2.75 | overall: 2.75
CAN from the 2019 Costco Beer Advent Calendar. If the past 20+ Egerer beers from that pack I've tried are any indication, this is going to be very lacklustre fare:
4.1% ABV.
Metallic. Coating. Grassy. A bit floral. Cheap pale malt gives it its insipid malt backbone.
Drinkable but forgettable. Why brew this?
C- (2.65) / BELOW AVERAGE
Oct 14, 20194.1% ABV.
Metallic. Coating. Grassy. A bit floral. Cheap pale malt gives it its insipid malt backbone.
Drinkable but forgettable. Why brew this?
C- (2.65) / BELOW AVERAGE
Reviewed by schoolboy from Ohio
3.27/5 rDev -0.9%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3.25
3.27/5 rDev -0.9%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3.25
The last of the Advent calendar brews, it is at least drinkable and different from the rest.
It pours pale brown with not much head. The taste is blunt - weak hops and just a bit bitter.
No recommended, but if you have one, don't dead drooling it.
PS 10-25-2020. I got another 16.9 oz can (yes, I'm drinking through the Advent calendar from Costo, top-down and early). This one is probably fresher but I'm not sure where my January 2019 review was coming from. This light ale really doesn't have much going on. A slightly bitter finish. This would be a decent summer brew. It's very understated.
Hey Costo - you should do better than this. Do an American mixer, but don't use contract brews unless the brew is disclosed.
Jan 27, 2019It pours pale brown with not much head. The taste is blunt - weak hops and just a bit bitter.
No recommended, but if you have one, don't dead drooling it.
PS 10-25-2020. I got another 16.9 oz can (yes, I'm drinking through the Advent calendar from Costo, top-down and early). This one is probably fresher but I'm not sure where my January 2019 review was coming from. This light ale really doesn't have much going on. A slightly bitter finish. This would be a decent summer brew. It's very understated.
Hey Costo - you should do better than this. Do an American mixer, but don't use contract brews unless the brew is disclosed.
Reviewed by Pegasus from Texas
3.28/5 rDev -0.6%
look: 3.25 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.25
3.28/5 rDev -0.6%
look: 3.25 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.25
Appearance: Medium amber brown, with a touch of haze. A modest, but persistant, fine-beaded head crowns this example. Sparse, fine bubbles drift lazily to the surface.
Aroma: Slightly burnt caramel, bread-like aromas, and grassy hops vie for dominance.
Taste: Opens with substantial caramel malt, bread, and grassy hops. As the taste lingers on, hops abound, with grassy notes, and an earthy herbal bitterness, Finishes with a lingering burnt caramel note, against grassy and herbal hops.
Mouth feel: Smooth, soft, and full, quite pleasant.
Drinkability/notes: Nice and very drinkable, would be a decent "everyday" ale.
Presentation: Packaged in a 500 ml, 16.9 ounce steel can, served in a standard Pilsener glass. Beer number four (December 4th) from the 2017 Costco Advent Beer Calendar.
Oct 05, 2018Aroma: Slightly burnt caramel, bread-like aromas, and grassy hops vie for dominance.
Taste: Opens with substantial caramel malt, bread, and grassy hops. As the taste lingers on, hops abound, with grassy notes, and an earthy herbal bitterness, Finishes with a lingering burnt caramel note, against grassy and herbal hops.
Mouth feel: Smooth, soft, and full, quite pleasant.
Drinkability/notes: Nice and very drinkable, would be a decent "everyday" ale.
Presentation: Packaged in a 500 ml, 16.9 ounce steel can, served in a standard Pilsener glass. Beer number four (December 4th) from the 2017 Costco Advent Beer Calendar.
Reviewed by BeerAndGasMasks from Virginia
3.41/5 rDev +3.3%
look: 4.25 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.5
3.41/5 rDev +3.3%
look: 4.25 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.5
From the 2017 Brewer's Advent Calendar sold by Costco. A nice clear coppery amber liquid with a light tan head that is continually replenished by streams of bubbles from the bottom. Pleasant taste, with caramel malts coming through, but little hop flavor or scent.
Dec 15, 2017
Reviewed by biboergosum from Canada (AB)
3.69/5 rDev +11.8%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
3.69/5 rDev +11.8%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
500ml can, from the 2017 Brewer's Advent Calendar, shared by a friend on his birthday.
This beer pours a clear, bright medium copper amber colour, with two fingers of puffy, loosely foamy, and bubbly off-white head, which leaves some streaky and sudsy lace around the glass as it quickly blows off.
It smells of bready and doughy caramel malt, Pez candies, a hint of yeast, and some leafy, weedy, and floral noble hops. The taste is bready and doughy caramel malt, muddled pome fruit, a lesser citrus character, and more leafy, weedy, and floral verdant hoppiness.
The carbonation is fairly low-key in its innocuous frothiness, the body a solid middleweight, and generally smooth, with a thin airy creaminess arising as things warm up a tad around here. It finishes off-dry, the malt and relatively impressive hops presiding.
Overall - this is one of the hoppier German-made brews that I have ever encountered, easy to drink, and refreshing. Worth checking out, IMHO, if you can locate it outside of this particular packaging vector.
Dec 10, 2017This beer pours a clear, bright medium copper amber colour, with two fingers of puffy, loosely foamy, and bubbly off-white head, which leaves some streaky and sudsy lace around the glass as it quickly blows off.
It smells of bready and doughy caramel malt, Pez candies, a hint of yeast, and some leafy, weedy, and floral noble hops. The taste is bready and doughy caramel malt, muddled pome fruit, a lesser citrus character, and more leafy, weedy, and floral verdant hoppiness.
The carbonation is fairly low-key in its innocuous frothiness, the body a solid middleweight, and generally smooth, with a thin airy creaminess arising as things warm up a tad around here. It finishes off-dry, the malt and relatively impressive hops presiding.
Overall - this is one of the hoppier German-made brews that I have ever encountered, easy to drink, and refreshing. Worth checking out, IMHO, if you can locate it outside of this particular packaging vector.
Reviewed by Buck89 from Tennessee
3.33/5 rDev +0.9%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.25
3.33/5 rDev +0.9%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.25
Prom the Advent box. Poured into a snifter. A clear golden-amber color with a frothy off-white head. Brown bread, some caramel, oranges, and some floral notes on the nose. Caramel malt up front on the taste, with a nuttiness. The hops were either never present or have faded (can says exp 3/2019). Light bodied and a bit thin but not overly so for a 4% beer.
Dec 09, 2017
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