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In a move that would surprise nobody who follows these beer reviews, Bavik is from–drumroll–Belgium. That wasn’t entirely on purpose. However, Bavik Premium Pils is a little more like the everyday lawnmower beer that your pops (or moms, I guess) gave you your first sip of.
That’s right–it’s our first Pilsner review in quite some time.
Like I said before, Bavik Premium Pils is, in essence, an imported version of the all-purpose lawnmower Pilsner–light-ish, drinkable (meaning that you can drink 6 and not think twice), acceptable in terms of taste and feel. For all intents and purposes, Bavik is beer-flavored beer. GASP.
This makes it easy for the Miller Lite/Budweiser crowd (read: the entire United States) to like it, and also easy for the craft brew crowd to think that it’s a poor effort and pan it pretty heavily (it scores a 16 of 100 at Ratebeer, for example). I’ve got to side with the ol’ “unwashed masses” here–I like Bavik a lot, for all its averageness. It’s sort of the “homemade mashed potatoes” of beer.
Bavik pours a lighter yellow, and has a perky, semi-heavily carbonated head. This personality comes through in the flavor of the beer, which almost has a bite due to the carbonation alone. It’s a dry beer, with yeasty overtones to the clear, easy-to-imbibe pils flavor right up front. There’s almost no finish to the beer to speak of, which lends itself to that “you can drink 6″ characteristic I noted above.
It’s definitely not a complex beer, and the experience of drinking it certainly isn’t earth-shattering, but Bavik is a solid beer that I’d drink again. On the CTS scale I’d have to score it a “slightly above average,” but I definitely like it as a lighter, hot weather beer with burgers and dogs. It’s for Belgian grillouts.
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