Krüger Export Beer

Brewed by InBev Belgium
Style: Pilsener
Leuven, Belgium

Serve in Flute, Footed Pilsner

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Bottle 33cl.
Clear medium to dark yellow color with a average, frothy, good - fair lacing, mostly lasting, white to off-white head. Aroma is moderate malty, grain, toasted, paper, light hoppy. Flavor is moderate sweet and light moderate bitter with a average duration. Body is medium to light, texture is watery to oily, carbonation is soft. [20090403]

Orange beer with a small white head. Sweet malty aroma with notes of straw. The flavor is malty sweet with notes of straw and hops. The ending is slightly bitter.

33 cL bottle. Pours clear and golden yellow with a small white head. Grassy hops aroma, clean and crisp. Dry bitter, grassy and vague malt base. Bitter and dry finish.

(Bottle 33 cl) Typical pilsener golden, small white head. Very nice, flowery nose. Very, clear and pure malty flavours, with the perfect touch of hops in the finish. An archetypical example of a well-made. well-balanced pilsener. Thanks to Joris for the history lesson. 121197.

Bottled. Golden colour, small head. Grainy and sweet, no bitterness. A useless example of industrial adjuncy lager.

Bottle, 4.8%. OK grainy aroma. Clear golden colour. Very small white head. The flavour is mildly malty, has a little rough hop flavour, but OK aroma hops. Clean enough.

Bottle. Nice head with good duration. Color is golden. Aroma and taste are malt, soap and hops.

Bottle. Creamy white good mostly lasting head. Yellow colour. Light malty and hoppy aroma. Light bitter flavor. Short light bitter finish. Watery palate.

Orange aroma with a hint of boiled milk. Grainy flavor, rather thin with only the slightest hint of hops. Watery.

This beer needs some explication. First, "export". Export used to be a Belgian Pilsner-variety. Compared to a breweries' usual pils, export would be less attenuated, effectively sweeter, marginally less alcoholic, and traditionally 33cl compared to the 25cl Pilsener. In the seventies, breweries stopped bothering - as all pilsner-variations as Dort, Luxus, etc. became less well-percieved. Those breweries that still have export these days, just bottle pils in 33cl (best genuine example AFAIK, Rafexport from Contreras). Second, "Krüger". Krüger used to be thé regional brewer from Eeklo. It was a rather larger brewery, and as late as '72 major investments were made there. Then entered Piedboeuf, later Interbrew, and a dozen years ago, Krüger closed, demolished later, the beer all brewed at Jupille, and the name all but disppearing. But for the export Krüger beer, still very much in demand in the region - people being convinced it is weaker than the usual pils. Full clear gold, lively pearling to full white head, slowly collapsing leaving good lace. Very grainy nose, summer field, bit chaff. Rather bitterish onset, swinging immediately to full malt background. Very classical pilsener, finishes malt and grain adjunct. Light bodied, sort of beefed up. Watery aftertaste. Overall dreary. In the style of old export, though (4.8 % compared to 5.2% Jupiler).