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Warka

Warka Brewery
Warka
Poland
http://www.grupazywiec.pl/

Style: European Strong Lager
ABV: 7%

Rings’s Rating:
   (Not good.)


Comments:
I was kind of excited to try Warka, which was presented to me as a 500-plus-year-old traditional brewery from a Polish town of the same name. Reading up a bit, The Warka Brewery is one of Poland’s oldest breweries and second largest. It belongs to the Żywiec Group. Żywiec Group has five main breweries: Żywiec Brewery, Elbrewery, Leżajsk Brewery, Cieszyn Brewery and Warka Brewery, and is majority owned by the Dutch Heineken Group …

>>sigh<

The brewery is located in the historic downtown of Warka, Poland. It was supposed to be a “hoppy” Slavic strong lager.

It pours a pale copper in color with a thin, watery head. Unfortunately, the nose was immediately a sour wine vinegar and it opens with a sweet and sour body and ends with a syrupy finish. There’s nary a hint of hops with a very soft CO2 bite.

I certainly hope this one was just a bad example as can often be the case with imported beers, especially those that are relatively unknown, because I’m sure this isn’t exactly flying off the shelves on American shores.

Reviewed by Rings on February 20, 2013.

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