Kossaat
Brasserie Lefebvre in Rebecq-Quenast, Walloon Brabant, Belgium 🇧🇪
Belgian Style - Blonde / Pale / Amber Special|
Score
6.06
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BlackHaddock (17491) reviewed Kossaat from Brasserie Lefebvre 6 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
33cl bottle in de Garre, Brugge on 10th July 2019. Golden/amber body, white topping. Initially malty sweet, later it becomes a little mellower in nature as the hops kick in. Decent.
Alengrin (11675) reviewed Kossaat from Brasserie Lefebvre 8 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 5
Bottle from De Vidts in Sint-Niklaas. Traditional Belgian blonde with tightly papery lacing, irregular, off-white head, breaking into thin 'islands' in the middle but well-retaining on the edges, over an initially cristal clear, peach-tinged 'old gold' beer with visible strings of fizz here and there. Aroma of banana-flavoured chewing gum, molten powder sugar, canned peaches, caramel candy, lots of industrial honey, that typically cooked pasteurization odour (heated bath towels), melting rubber somewhere, old mouldy apples, sugared industrial cider, faint hints of iron, coriander seed, mashed sweet potatoes, wet white paper, damp kitchen towels, pumpkin soup, dried violets. Sweet, mildly estery onset, a whole lot of that eternal banana ester with strong chewing gum character, very apple-ish too, pineapple, canned apricots, a combination of esters with a whole lot of residual candi syrup sweetness, even cloying a bit; some soft sourishness on the edges, medium carbonation, slick and somewhat soapy, even resiny mouthfeel. The residual 'white' sugariness lies heavily over a cereally, caramelly, simple malt middle with thinly metallic edges, some phenols develop underway but the bubblegum-banana effect reigns supreme. Not a whole lot more happens in the finish: soapy coriander of course, in this case only accentuating both soapiness and sweetness, and hardly any hop bitterness at all, apart from a volatile floral note. Ends sweet, a tad metallic and a tad minerally, pathetically lacking in bitterness and body, with that awful bubblegum flavour still dominating. This is the worn-out concept of 'Belgian blonde' at its worst: clearly an attempt at mimicking Leffe Blonde under the guise of being a regional beer ('streekbier') and therefore inherently 'better' to the naive average consumer, but striving to be about the same as its - to me - loathsome role model, with the same amount of artificiality (pasteurization!), rubberiness, over-the-top sweetness and 'industrialness'. I deeply hate this kind of beers: this is the kind of ridiculously childish, sugary, naive and hopelessly conservative beers, coming from a brewery with about just that kind of attitude, that - unwillingly, sure - tries to block Belgium from aligning with the global craft beer movement. Do not expect me to be mild on this one - I could hardly finish it.
Kraddel (15872) reviewed Kossaat from Brasserie Lefebvre 9 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Pours rather clear blonde, good to big white head. Smell is douh-ghy, sweet, mild yeast, distant malts. Taste is bitter, very very sweet underneath, honey and loads of Sugar. overcarbonated. yeasty ( typical Belgian, those overripe characters ) Very boring, less than average taste to me. no Obvious flaws, yet very Obvious, shitloads of Sugar . I’ll pass for a second one, but at least it’s a beer I can finish.
Deanso (15822) reviewed Kossaat from Brasserie Lefebvre 9 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6
33cl bottle shared with Kermis. Mini gusher. Thin white head. Very hazy blond pour. Average
Kermis (23501) reviewed Kossaat from Brasserie Lefebvre 9 years ago
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Bottle shared, gusher. Very hazy orange with a ring off white head. Malt upfront in the aroma with caramel, butterscotch, light herbs and light yeast. Flavour is moderate to heavy sweet and moderate bitter. Medium bodied with light carbonation.
Drebus (8640) reviewed Kossaat from Brasserie Lefebvre 11 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5
Bottle @ home. Gusher! Clear golden colour with no head. Smells malts, sweetish, herbs, fruity. Tastes malts, spices, slightly iron. Thin to medium body, soft to medium carbo.
77ships (14509) reviewed Kossaat from Brasserie Lefebvre 11 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5
Thx! 33 cl. bottle sampled. Hazy amber, small white head. Strange nose, touch metals, sticky odd herbs, bit syrupy & chemical. Taste is odd herbs, metal, candy sugar, strange alts, yeast, spent grains,… Fizzy. Off-putting for me, not liking the taste here.
tderoeck (22946) reviewed Kossaat from Brasserie Lefebvre 11 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 5
Imported from my RateBeer account as Kossaat (by Brasserie Lefebvre):
Aroma: 6/10, Appearance: 4/5, Taste: 6/10, Palate: 2/5, Overall: 10/20, MyTotalScore: 2.8/5
21/VI/14 - 33cl bottle @ De Kuppe (Brugge) - Bieruitstap met de Gentse Biervereniging - BB: 21/XI/14 (2014-649)
Clear blond beer, big creamy irregular off-white head, pretty stable, adhesive, leaving a nice lacing in the glass. Aroma: malty, syrupy, some citrus, lemon candy, some cardboard, sweet, overripe fruit. MF: ok carbon, medium body. Taste: bit sourish, lemony, metallic touch, bitter, some banana peel. Aftertaste: fruity, melons, bit oxidized, some honey.
Benzai (24654) reviewed Kossaat from Brasserie Lefebvre 12 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
Bottle @ Bierhuys In den Spytighen Duvel, Turnhout. Hazy orange color, full sized white head. Smell malts, yeast, dried fruits. Taste malts, dried fruits, yeast, nicely bitter. Medium body and carbonation. Nice.