Alva BLES Zottegem
De Graal in Brakel, East Flanders, Belgium 🇧🇪
IPA - Red Regular Out of Production|
Score
6.57
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Bierridder (4318) reviewed Alva BLES Zottegem from De Graal 7 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
13/10/2018 - small tasting glass shared with rubin77 and some friends @Bles Bierhappening, Zottegem. Reddish colour with big tanned head. Nose is malts, red fruits, caramel. Taste is sweet malts, bit bready ripe fruits, caramel. Liked this more than the Jubbles.
Rubin77 (10187) reviewed Alva BLES Zottegem from De Graal 7 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
F: big, pale pink, long lasting. C: red coppery, almost clear. A: malty, red fruits, caramel, floral. T: malty backbone, sour red fruity, caramel, red fruits again, bit bready, medium body and carbonation, nice one, enjoyed, sample from bottle shared with Bierridder_S and his friends @ 25th Bierhappening on Saturday 13/10/2018 in Zottegem.
jefverstraete (7489) reviewed Alva BLES Zottegem from De Graal 8 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Bottle from LDW, Eke. Hazy bordeau colour, light pink foam. Nose of peach, berries, hops. Taste is rather watery, dry and grassy with light fruity hints. A bit messy, not the best beer.
Alengrin (11609) reviewed Alva BLES Zottegem from De Graal 8 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 6.5
For this year's Nationale Bierhappening which they organize, BLES (Bierliefhebbers van de Egmontstede - Zottegem's local beer club) created a one-off named after the Duke of Alva, who established a reign of terror in the Low Countries during the Eighty Year War; this beer is a Belgian blonde coloured red with elderberry juice, as a reference to blood - and the decapitation of count Egmont, ordered by Alva. Pinkish-tinged egg-white, irregularly lacing, moussy head over a misty, pale orangey-hued fuchsia-coloured beer. Aroma indeed reveals some elderberry juice or some other sweet, ripe red berry juice (could have been raspberry just as well), but unfortunately also some DMS (cooked red cabbage) and even a sewer water-like hint at H2S; other impressions include soggy white bread, red apple peel, beetroot juice, old lemon peel, soap. Crisp and fruity onset, not overly estery, some red apple and vague green banana drenched in a somewhat thinnish but well-noticeable elderberry juice sweetness - yet without becoming too cloying at any point; carbonation is very sharp and numbing, souring a bit. "White" bready, cereally and thinly caramelly malt body, a tad metallic on the edges, leading to a drier finish with some leafy and floral hop bitterness to it; the fruitiness, sweet but not overly so and matched with a 'berry sour' edge, lingers after swallowing but as said, does not become too sweet or cloying at all. Too bad for the off-flavours and the overcarbonation, this would have been a humble, but elegant little fruit beer otherwise - now it is just one of these old-fashioned Belgian 'streekbieren' where the background story is longer than necessary.