6

@ 2018

6

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

Sampled at zythos 2018. Thnx for sharing, everyone ! Pours rather clear blonde. Smell is weak. Mild malty Ness. Taste is sharp. Bit bitter. Mild aroma from both malt and hop. Slightly to much diacetyl tho. Making the beer end sticky.

3.3

Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 3 | Flavor - 3 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 3

Dumpf hopfig-herber, muffig würziger Beginn. Geringe Würzigkeit, laff. Nö. 6/5/6/5//5

4.5

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 4

Bottle. Unclear golden color with no head. Aroma is buttery, pale malts, literally nothing else. Taste is buttery, pale malts, strawy. Oily mouthfeel with medium carbonation. Not very good.

5

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5

Thank you for sharing RB People! Sampled draft @ ZBF 2018. Pale golden. Nose is vegetable, corn, vegetable oil. Taste is lemon, vegetable oil, banana, sugar, bland vegetables. Vegetable, bland, lemon. Not too good.

4.3

Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 5

Sampled @ Zythos Bier Festival 2018. A almost clear pale golden beer. Aroma of grainy malt, straw. Taste of dry grainy malt, straw and cardboard.

4.8

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 4

Imported from my RateBeer account as Linus Pils (by Brouwerij Van Hellemont):
Aroma: 5/10, Appearance: 4/5, Taste: 4/10, Palate: 2/5, Overall: 8/20, MyTotalScore: 2.3/5

28/IV/18 - shared @ Zythos Bierfestival 2018 (Leuven) - BB: n/a (2018-543) Thanks to the ratebeer crew for sharing today's beers!

Clear very pale yellowish beer, no head. aroma: bit malty, grains, hay, bit of banana, little fruity. MF: ok carbon, medium to light body. Taste: very malty, grains, yeast, bit sweet, little oxidized, some banana. Aftertaste: soft bitterness, bit malty, watery.

6.1

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5

One of these nostalgic Belgian beers looking way back instead of forward, in trying to resurrect as faithfully as possible a 'pils' (pale lager) made fifty to seventy years ago by a local family brewery in Lubbeek which was closed down in the sixties but revived by the grandchildren of the then-brewer (funded by the municipality of Lubbeek, apparently). The name refers to one of the original brewers, the great-great-grandfather of the current brewers, but the recipe is allegedly the same as the original Gold-Pils from the historical brewery. Unsurprisingly not brewed at the premises but at Anders. bottom-fermented and 'traditionally lagered'; contains not only barley, as would be custom for a historical Flemish 'streekpils', but unmalted wheat as well. Medium thick, irregularly lacing, egg-white, densely moussy head, slowly breaking here and there but generally well-retaining; pale straw blonde robe with somewhat khaki hue, lightly hazy with some strings of bubbles rising up from the bottom. Aroma of old white bread, soap (clearly raw wheat indeed!), sourish grains, plaster, fresh camomile flowers, hints of lilies, gypsum, freshly cut grass, spoiling lettuce, dough. Neutral onset, very clearly bottom-fermented indeed, very low in fruitiness except from a hard, green, unripe banana-like note coming from the suspended yeast, sweetish and sourish graininess as in any standard pale lager but notably soapier due to the wheat - though I doubt if that is a good thing in this case; carbonation remains softish, especially for this type of beer, yet does provide lingering minerally notes. Supple, light-footed grainy and again wheaty middle, not much added to the flavour, and even in the finish the same grainy and (soapy) wheaty flavours persist, though softly bittered by a floral and grassy hop note in the end; light yeast effects too due to this being apparently unfiltered, a tad bready even, with something vaguely chalky underneath. Good intentions, for sure, I totally get the idea of trying to bring back a long-extinct beer from the dead - but in this day and age, I am really wondering what a sixties-style unfiltered 'regional' Pilsener can add to the Belgian beer landscape, which is already suffering from conservatism and hopelessly clinging to traditions that have been perfected and 'finalized' decades ago. That said, a good unfiltered 'pilsje' can work even today - see Ghent's 13 variations, for instance - and considering how Pilsener (and lager in general) seems to be positively reevaluated by the global craft beer community in recent years, this may be more up to date than one would initially think. But then at least make it a hoppy one - like, again, Ghent's 13, to make it appeal to a more progressive audience as well. This one is far from hoppy, in fact it tastes exactly like the semi-artisanal 'streekpilsjes' made generations ago, of which only very few authentic examples have survived to this day in this country, but which were usually - even if 'better' than their macro-industrial counterparts by being unfiltered and unpasteurized - far from hoppy as well. Apart from a mere technical consideration (head retention and perhaps an attempt to add more 'protein body'), I see no point in adding wheat either: in a relatively 'naked' and simple style of beer like this, it only adds a not very appropriate kind of soapiness which I tend to dislike even in many top-fermented beers of this ABV. Conclusion: hugely out of date, all things considered, tasting like another bland pale lager with wheat soapiness added to it - though still highly preferable over the cheap, pasteurized, adjunct-ridden garbage the macro breweries have been throwing at the entire world (including Belgium) for generations. In that sense and within that very specific context, I'd heartily encourage the people of Lubbeek - or the 'Hageland' in general - to drink this as an alternative to Jupiler, Stella, Maes, Primus and the like.