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Brewed by Duvel Moortgat
Style: Pilsener
Breendonk-Puurs, Belgium

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RATINGS: 94   WEIGHTED AVG: 2.73   EST. CALORIES: 159   ABV: 5.3%
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COMMERCIAL DESCRIPTION
BEL PILS is one of the most traditional of pils beers, mainly on account of the high quality of the hops used, which give the beer a characteristic aroma and taste.


2.7
   AROMA 5/10   APPEARANCE 3/5   TASTE 6/10   PALATE 2/5   OVERALL 11/20
jonas (4588) - Garching b. München, GERMANY - OCT 18, 2003
From tap Fresh pils aroma. Pale golden with lace in flute. Pretty neutral taste - light body.

3.3
   AROMA 6/10   APPEARANCE 3/5   TASTE 7/10   PALATE 4/5   OVERALL 13/20
bierkoning (8099) - La Tropica, NETHERLANDS - SEP 29, 2003
Slight vanilla aroma. Slightly hoppy vanilla flavor. Malty. Medium bodied. Well made pilsener with a fair deal of flavor.

3.3
   AROMA 6/10   APPEARANCE 4/5   TASTE 7/10   PALATE 3/5   OVERALL 13/20
JorisPPattyn (6725) - Antwerpen, BELGIUM - AUG 30, 2003
Straw-coloured, crystal clear; huge thick white head, very stable. Faint bitter hopnose, flowery, grain. Very bitter head, concentrates the hopflavours very much - maybe some iron. Quite bitter pils, fine hopbitterness with a good maltbase with just some sweetness left. Light bodied, not fizzy. This is the proof that an industrial pilsener can be quite allright.

3.5
   AROMA 6/10   APPEARANCE 4/5   TASTE 7/10   PALATE 4/5   OVERALL 14/20
jbrus (4990) - Delft, NETHERLANDS - AUG 28, 2003
Aroma of wort and light citrus. Golden color, good looking white head, very good lace. Sweet, malts, nice body, very light bitter, refreshing. Actually the second drinkable Belgian pilsener I ever had. The other one was Cristal Alken.

2.4
   AROMA 5/10   APPEARANCE 2/5   TASTE 5/10   PALATE 3/5   OVERALL 9/20
omhper (15956) - Stockholm, SWEDEN - APR 28, 2003
Bottled. Golden coloured with average head. Raisiny malt aroma. Sweet and lightly grassy with clean, yet soft, mouthfeel. Some bitterness. A decently well made lager, but without character.

1.7
   AROMA 4/10   APPEARANCE 1/5   TASTE 4/10   PALATE 2/5   OVERALL 6/20
diabel (1537) - Aarschot, BELGIUM - JAN 20, 2003
Very light colour, looks like mixed with water. Little bit bitter flavour.

1.9
   AROMA 3/10   APPEARANCE 2/5   TASTE 3/10   PALATE 2/5   OVERALL 9/20
Schroppfy (2326) - Łódż, Warsaw, Poland; Michigan, Ohio, USA - DEC 24, 2002
Bit o’ malt, lot o’ water, no o’ hop. A relative lump of coal under the old Christmas tree.

3
   AROMA 5/10   APPEARANCE 2/5   TASTE 7/10   PALATE 3/5   OVERALL 13/20
Kåstå (1221) - Mol, BELGIUM - SEP 4, 2002
UPDATED: JUL 4, 2003 Very blond with a big head. Hop, flower and bitter aroma. Slightly sweet with a typical pilsner taste. A slightly dry bitter finish. It is a good pilsner.

3
   AROMA 5/10   APPEARANCE 4/5   TASTE 7/10   PALATE 4/5   OVERALL 10/20
samustdog (73) - USA - JUL 26, 2002
Pretty plain taste, nothing too special.

2.2
   AROMA 5/10   APPEARANCE 4/5   TASTE 3/10   PALATE 2/5   OVERALL 8/20
OlJuntan64 (1266) - Perth, AUSTRALIA - JUN 27, 2002
Pale yellow with a faint touch of green - no wait that’s just trees behind the glass - just yellow clear colour. Decent size white fluffy head, dissipating slowly to floating foam island. Pleasant sharp & floral hoppy and fainter less exciting month old unwashed bath tub aromas. Lite macrobrew palate and flavours. Palate has more in common with a lightly carbonated mineral water than with beer. Weak watery bitter start and even weaker bitter finish. Maybe it was a bad one but the aroma was actually OK but it tasted like a stale old beer.


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