Brasserie de Bertinchamps Bivouac Rêve B.

Bivouac Rêve B.

 

Brasserie de Bertinchamps in Gembloux, Namur, Belgium 🇧🇪

  Belgian Style - Blonde / Pale / Amber Regular
Score
6.79
ABV: 5.0% IBU: - Ticks: 1
Après le Gin en 2021 et la Vodka en 2022, c’est une bière spécialement brassée pour l’occasion appelée la Rêve B. qui rejoint cette année le bar du Bivouac. À consommer évidemment avec modération.
 

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7.1/10 Appearance 7 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 7 Overall 7.5
Beer commissioned by Rêve Bivouac, a 'glamping' site in Wavre, which apparently already had their own wodka and gin produced for them as well; longneck bottle from the Carrefour supermarket in Sint-Denijs-Westrem. Thick and frothy, snow white, membrane-lacing, rocky head, very stable and seemingly enhanced by tetra iso-extract; initially clear, warm 'metallic' golden robe, lightly hazed in the end. Aroma of unsugared dry cookies, wholegrain bread, soggy chicken food (but in a good, 'cereally' way if you get my drift), a hint of nuttiness, chamomile tea or chamomile-flavoured cookies, minerals, hints of rusk and raw kale (not DMS). Cleanish onset but still subtly estery with a vague hint of pear, not at all Pilsener-like, carrying an even more atypical residual sweetishness, like a waferthin layer of acacia honey, over a smooth cereally, slightly bready and unsugared cookies-like malt core, slender, with a thin line of minerality underneath. None of the crispness associated with any kind of Pilsener - and no hop bitterness worth mentioning either, though the hops do reveal themselves as a flowery aroma, bringing back that chamomile aspect, even in a flattering, pleasing way. Not a "Pils" beer at all, as I said: this is another of those pseudo-Pilseners on the Belgian market today, coming from smaller craft breweries which are incapable of producing an actual Lager - so instead, and in view of the decline in 'real' craft beer consumption in this country in post-Covid times, they opt for a blonde ale slimmed down, cleaned and simplified to something resembling a pale lager. I have encountered quite a number of these in the past few years and some of them imitate actual pale lager more convincingly than others; this one does not do a very good job at that, I think, but I hasten to add that it is, almost in spite of its own intentions, nevertheless a pleasant, balanced, quite fine-tuned session beer. For that reason alone and nothing else, I will be mild in rating, but I just could not bring myself to classifying it as a Pilsener here - so in spite of brewer's intentions, I followed Untappd for once, where it is also classified as a blonde ale, justly in my opinion.
Tried on 06 May 2026 at 19:01