Leireken Bio Lager

Brewed by Brouwerij Strubbe
Style: Pilsener
Ichtegem, Belgium

Serve in Flute, Footed Pilsner

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25 cl. bottle @ home. BBF date is smudged / unreadable. Pours a clear amber orange, head is oddly almost instantly gone, white but only very brief within 1 min. zero bubbles, actually looks a bit like a lambic or something odd. Sweet pale lager aroma, very homogenous, lightly fruity, corn, light honey,… Taste is odd pale lager hay, corn, sweet cornflakes, metallic, artificial honey, fake white sugar fare, light basement and chunk of dust, more sweet, lightly oddly bitter finish, touch other grains,… Little carbonation, fake honey, lightly sticky body,… Actually this is better than it sounds, it is like a slightly better pale lager, in that category there is a lot worse stuff,… Actually expected worse,… The rating seems a bit unfair because it clearly promises a lager on the label and you know what that means in Belgium. Maybe this stuff is better now than it used to be, other ratings are all from 2011 & one from 2010.

Bottle 250ml. @ home.

Clear medium yellow colour with a average, frothy, good lacing, mostly lasting, white head. Aroma is moderate malty, grain, agner, light straw. Flavour is moderate sweet and bitter with a average duration, agner, malt, grass, thin. Body is medium, texture is watery to oily, carbonation is soft. [20111027]

Bottle. Pale yellow color. Slight grassy hop and light malt aroma, very pedestrian. Very sweet, malty flavor. Just ok. Quite like a major industrial lager.

25cl, new organic brew Anno 2010, from Willems Grobbendonk, not complex brew, malty/sweet, easy to drink, balanced, clear, good head, nothing special

Bottle: White airy head on top of a clear golden yellow colored beer. Smell malts, some hops and herbs. A typical smell. Taste is pretty fruity, didn’t find that in the smell. Also taste hops, malts, yeast, grains, bitter and some herbs. Nice bitter aftertaste. Low carbo, soft tingly mouthfeel, medium body and a light watery texture.

head: thick , creamy , white
colour: very light blond
smell: overall sweet malts, with a irony hopy undernote ...
taste: start is skunky malts, followed by a unpleasant taste of grains, malts, end i s metallic good ? pffffffff NOT !!

A pale blonde lager with a thin white head. In aroma, a sweet chalky malt, German hops, so-so. In mouth, a bland sweetish eurolager, with mineral notes, short and boring. Bottle at Mondial 2011, June 11 2011.

25cl bottle-Thanks jtclockwork for sharing-pours a fizzy dissipating white head and pale yellow/straw color. Aroma is grain/corn, some fruit. Taste is sweet corn/cereal, some hops bite.

(Bottled, BBE 07/2011) Hazy yellow with a small, white head. Bready-malty nose with honey and mild grassy notes. Flavor is honeyish-malty with pear-acidic notes and some herby hops. Light to medium body, slightly fizzy carbonation. Reasonably refreshing and clean, not watery, ok. 4333

Bottle. Pours clear yellow. Fizzy white head. Nose/taste of corn chips and tortilla. Taste also has sweet malts and light pine. Non offensive.