Larine Grand Belgie

Brewed by Martens
Style: Pale Lager
Bocholt, Belgium

Serve in Dimpled mug, Lager glass, Shaker

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Clear pour, metal / skunky aroma and taste with a splash of corn. and yeast. Ehh. I just thought all belgian beers tasted like Rochefort 10, guess I was wrong!

This may not be a fair rating. This came off the discount shelf of my local homebrew shop. May be extremely old. It was cloudy and had particulates. No head. Hard to drink out of plastic. Aroma of celery. But of course I finished it. Way sweet and not sour like a "Belgie" should be.

Decent smell, very cloudy orange appearance. A quite malty flavor but strange, a bit of Belgian wit feel. Very odd, but I think I really like this. A very good finish.

Pours light gold with a foamy white head. Aroma is bready with some mildly spicey hop. Near medium body with foamy, but sharp, carbonation. Flavor is mildly bready with a fair amount of noble hop. Finishes fairly clean and decently bitter. Not too bad for the style.

High hopes on this one. It is after all a "Premium Belgian Beer". How could it not be. Plastic screw-top bottle and all. Very pale straw yellow and a decent white persistant head that leaves nice stringy lacing. Light sweet light malts slightly papery aroma. Honey. Low on the bitering hops for ballance. Tart slightly dry aftertaste. A sweet pale lager. And by "sweet", I dont mean....SWEET !

Plastic Bottle: Pours a clear copper color with a thin white head. The nose is metallic with some husky corn notes; lots of metal and very dirty malts. The flavor has a moderate body although with a corn and bad spent yeast note in the tail. Very rough, lots of off-flavors. Scary. Like bread on its way out.

Plastic Bottle. The taste is refreshing, light, and very enjoyable. This beer has a very good balance of malts and hops, a little more on the malts side, but still very good. The beer was enjoyable, a good depth of flavor with the belgian yeast strands and the great depth of balance in the flavor.

Pale golden beer with a thin white head. Aroma is fairly cidery with a touch of pale malt. Light bitterness with a bit of herbal character as well. Thin-bodied and quite cidery tasting with a plasticy bitterness. Man, this is like drinking garbage. Truly vile stuff.

I picked up this oddity at the Binny’s in Orland Park, IL, for $0.99. It came in a green plastic 16.9 oz twist top bottle and listed the ABV at 5% rather than the site’s posted 6%. Frankly, I was surprized to see it listed as a Belgian Ale. It seems more like a cheap pale lager. Looks like one, golden bodied with a fizzy head that quickly reduced to a film. Smells like one, a bready, corny sweetness with a hint of pale malt and some grassiness. Tastes like one, some bland sweetness and a dose of grassy/herbal bitterness followed by a touch of metallica. The bottle calls it a "Premium Belgium Beer." I call it something that I won’t be drinking again, despite its cheapness.

Scary soft pffft from the twist-off plastic bottle cap, but pours a straw colored liquid with a fluffy white head. Strong herbal to skunky hops. Trying to decide which way this one is going, a fresh noble hops or light struck mess. Actually settles down with some time, leaving a some minty hops along with a slightly buttery pale malt scent. A bit too much of a mess to think the smell is more deserving. Dry grain and flour start the flavors. Some herbal/wintergreen hops join in the gluey mixture. Fairly sharp bitterness in the finish, with fresh cut grass and weeds. Alcohol comes out a touch in the finish and linger. Very much like a eastern euro lager. I certainly would never have guessed this came from Belgium