Caporal

Brewed by Brouwerij Van Steenberge
Style: Pilsener
Ertvelde, Belgium

Serve in Flute, Footed Pilsner

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330ml bottle from First Choice. Hazy straw yellow body with a slim white head that lasts. Noticebly bready aromas with faint citrus hops. Medium sweet taste with low bitterness in the finish. Medium body with a rather thin mouthfeel and lowish carbonation. Pleasant. Easy drinking. Certainly different to the German or Bohemian pilsners that tend to have a much higher dry hop bitterness.

330ml bottle. Evenly layered dep white foam atop an amber base, looks inviting. Aromas of malt and hops with a bit of straw thrown in. Light in the mouth with a medium body and dry aftertaste.

Bottle (330ml). Poured yellow with a small rocky white, head which was average lasting. Aroma was grainy malts with sweet bread, honey, lemon and light notes of butterscotch. Flavor was of grainy malts with a light bitterness, honey, lemons and hints of mandarin. Light bodied with lively carbonation, a mildly dry mouthfeel, watery texture and a short/clean finish.

...bottle from bottle. They all basically erupetd upon opening, so I don’t know what all that was about. Otherwise, a bretty good balanced brew. I liked the citrus\spice notes, and it was very clean with no lingering, or overpowering finish. I thought it was a light golden belgian more than a pils, but overall, pretty decent, too bad it was only a 4 pack. Worth trying if you like the style.

Yellow to straw colour,good head,carbonation good,aroma grain,crisp like sweet corn or barley,hops, perhaps stonefruit.Flavour barley,corn mild fruit tastes perhaps graprfruit a puzzling beer okay finish,grapefruit dry and sweet.

Bottle. Strange kind of pilsener. More of a Belgian ale feel. Pretty unexciting overall, best part is in the finish, where most of the flavour is hiding - fair bit of orange there at the end.

Not sure what BJCP style a Belgian Pilsner falls under so not sure if it is ‘to style’. That said it was a tasty beer, with noticeable spicy citrus flavors. Would be a good summer beer.

Bottle -- Pale yellow with average carbonation and a big sudsy white head with good retention and lots of lacing. Nothingy sweet aroma of Euro supermarket lager. Crisp, simple flavour with some pilsener character in it at a stretch. Quite pleasant but, having been sucked in by "Brewed in Belgium" written on the back and the quaint picture on the label, fairly dissapointing. But at the same shop I also picked up a three-pack of Chimay, complete with a proper Trappist glass, for $24, so I won’t complain too hard.

Bottle as part of an Euro lager 6 pack. Yet another Aussie review. Good head and left good lace on the glass. Even tho a Pilsener it tasted "Belgian" - if that makes sense. Have been drinking German pilsners and lagers lately as the standard brew at home and it was more Leffe than Bitburger. Enjoyed it though won’t go out of my way to buy it.

Why are all the reviews for Caporal by Australians? Slightly cloudy golden with a small head and no bubbles. Sweet floral aromas, and also sweet taste. Mouth full of flowers aftertaste. I did quite like it.