Faxe Extra Strong
Royal Unibrew A/S

 

At my lady Pamela's house; canned and chilled, 568mL in a pint glass. From Allen's Supermarket here in McGregor. Best before July 8/26. My 3rd beer from the Fakse, Denmark brewery, and for 2025. Wildly appreciated by Sundae the cat, with love...

 

 

 

Can 0.5L.
Clear, golden body with an average, frothy, off-white head, mostly lasting with some lacing.
Moderate malty aroma with an intense alcoholic character.
Moderate-to-heavy sweet flavour with some light bitter note.
Medium body with oily texture; soft carbonation; alcoholic warming in the finish.

Copenhagen 10/11 2023. 100 cl huge can from a German Gas Station on the road from Bremen to Hamburg. Black can with Faxe's characteristic Viking to demonstrate that this is strong and manly beer. As "Faxe 10%".

Pours clear golden yellow with a big white head. Stable. Settles as thin but unbroken layer of foam just covering the surface of the beer. Moderate lacing.

Aroma is medium intense with a sweet malty odor mingling with a sharp, boozy and metallic scent. Sweet pale malts, bread and alcohol. Sour grains.

Light carbonation. Medium thick, oily, soft, almost flat texture.

Flavor is medium intense with a medium strong sweetness followed by a quite strong, rough and boozy, sourish bitterness. Lingers for awhile- Finish is rather dry.

Throughly unpleasant. And it's a one-liter jug.

 

 

 

 

A perfectly good strong beer. Barely distinguishable from the standard lager of the same name. AND it comes in litre tins! What a wonder.

 

500 mL can from the LCBO; dated May 23 2022 and best before Aug 21 2023; served well chilled. This is review #3000, so I had no choice but to go with the biggest doozie I could find.

Pours a clear honey gold colour, crowned with nearly two fingers of frothy, foamy white head that dissipates within three minutes or so. A snaking band of delicate lace is left behind, in addition to a soapy collar surrounding some filmy wisps on the surface - looks safe enough. It smells of alcohol, corn syrup, green apple skin and barley malts, with faint hints of acetone, banana chips and pears. Not great, but not entirely objectionable.

I gotta say, I am a little impressed at how tolerable this is. Corn husk, honey sweetness and lots of grainy barley malt, as well as a relatively low-key booziness that is ever-present throughout the sip. Fruity hints of apple and white grape crop up briefly, but don't last; the finish is corny-sweet and boozy, with grassy, dirty hops echoing into a malty, boozy aftertaste. Mostly lacking the fusel nastiness you get with really bad examples of this style, but it does numb the tongue a little. Medium-light in body, with low carbonation and a light, airy texture juxtapositioned with a slick, clingy mouthfeel. I'm not 20 anymore, but if I were this'd make a good pre-drink before hitting the bar or club or whatever.

Final Grade: 3.11, a passable C+. Every thousandth review, I pick out a 'dud' - i.e. an arguably crummy beer that I have avoided reviewing previously. I'm not going to pretend that finishing this can of Faxe Extra Strong wasn't a chore, but truthfully, this is not even close to the worst strong Euro lager I've stumbled across. I think it's one of the better ones - I'd easily take this over any of those Bavaria 8.6 beers, and it blows all of the other 10% Euro lagers I've tried out of the water. Realistically, I have no excuse to ever drink this again, and their Fest Bock is a much better beer... but Extra Strong still earns my tacit, grudging approval, plus a recommendation as a respectable example of its style.

 

 

 

Poured a 500ml can into a pint glass. A one finger bubbly white head on a clear pale amber. Good head retention and lacing.
Light malt smells.
Corn. Very mild hop finish.
Moderate body and carbonation.
Better than I expected

(1 liter can, 07APR20; purchased cold single 2 days ago from Beer World, Liberty, NY, sipped on soon after over the course of 2 mobile hours, pouring little by little into my new Genesee 9 oz tasting glass... review cobbled from recollections of that journey)

10% 'quality lager beer'; black can, red/gold/white branding (different label than what's pictured here)... slightly hazy (decomposing), amber liquid; ample foam build with each pour, and it actually collared and laced a bit... on the nose: fusel-kissed medicinal spice, barmy yeast, artificial fruit aroma undertones... on the palate: Wells Banana Bread beer, nuttiness enhanced, dried out and fortified/tainted with cheap, rotgut ethanol... textures: brief, round swell up front, dropping clean in the finish aside from a mild oily warmth, but no burn; delicate tickle from the aforementioned spice/nut elements; mild effervescence

summary: almost 12 years to the day, I finally found another beer with a nearly identical flavor profile to that of the Carlsberg Special Brew I had at the Prince of Wales pub in Aberdeen, Scotland; blown away: memories, reminiscence, flashbacks flooded my mind... that said, this isn't a spectacular swill (but I'd love to try a fresh can), though it's remarkably drinkable because, dang, I did end up finishing the whole can somehow (pacing?), and experienced no recoil from beginning to end... I guess it was worth the detour (1800)

Faux 10% ultra strong beer or as me and my compatriate have affectionately renamed it: Beans. The stylish can reimagines the can as a can of beans and leans more to the experience as the physical attributes of the beer itself. Beans can turn your bad evening into a great one very quick, although the taste leaves some to be desired, this can be fixed by drinking beans out of the can which adds to the feeling that beans can give you which is rarely a tactic I have seen from my fellow beans drinkers. I urge everyone to forget about the taste of beans and to focus on how your day brightens after consumption. Beans can change your life, give beans the respect it deserves.

yours truly,
The Beans Brothers.