1st Libertus
Braxatorium Parcensis in Leuven, Flemish Brabant, Belgium 🇧🇪
Belgian Style - Blonde / Pale / Amber Regular|
Score
6.65
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mike_77 (15875) reviewed 1st Libertus from Braxatorium Parcensis 3 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Copper colour with thin lacy head. Aroma has bready yeast notes. Nice taste, slightly sweet and cerealy. A touch of yeasty dryness in the finish too.
tderoeck (22711) reviewed 1st Libertus from Braxatorium Parcensis 3 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 4
1/V/22 - 33cl bottle @ In de Verzekering tegen de Grote Dorst, BB: 28/X/21 (2022-472)
Bottle was sold more than six months past date. When I told the staff the beer was not good and past date (tasted completely oxidized), I wasn’t offered a refund or another beer. I was just being told that they had tasted it recently themselves and to them it still tasted ok. Quite a disappointing service.
Pretty cloudy amber beer, big creamy off-white head, pretty stable, non adhesive. Aroma: very malty, grains, very oxidized. MF: ok carbon, medium body. Taste: a bit sweet, very malty, oxidized, some banana, caramel, yeasty, more oxidation, a little bitter. Aftertaste: malty, banana, spicy, yeast, oxidized, marzipan.
Sloefmans (15389) reviewed 1st Libertus from Braxatorium Parcensis 4 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6.5 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Medium, off-white head over hazy amber-golden beer. Vinous a mile out, but then fading to sweet, caramelly malts, honey, faint alcoholaroma. Quite good balance, really malty yet a fine hoppy bitterness balancing. Has notes of fine green herbs, all caramel covered. In the aftertaste, some resins. Light body, medium to good carbonation, quite slick. Pretty good, actually. I'm favourably inclined towards this newcomer, reviving a long-lost brewery. Maybe Leuven might call itself the beertown with real reason in the future.
bier4der (3351) ticked 1st Libertus from Braxatorium Parcensis 5 years ago
nathanvc (6963) reviewed 1st Libertus from Braxatorium Parcensis 6 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6.5
12 January 2020. At In de Verzekering tegen de Grote Dorst. Shared with the lovely Anke! Pours hazy dark golden-amber with a stable, foamy, white head. Aroma of biscuit, toffee, apple peel, dried banana, apricot, kitchen herbs. Taste is a sweet biscuity profile, red apple & pear, faintly estery, some apricot, thoroughly bready with subtle bitter herbs & spices. Dryish, floral hoppy finish, lingering yeast, biscuit & ripe fruit. Medium body, creamy texture, fizzy carbonation. Somewhere between sweet Belgian Ale & an Amber, less sophisticated than it sounds but actually quite good.
Kraddel (15844) reviewed 1st Libertus from Braxatorium Parcensis 6 years ago
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7.5 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7.5
Pours rather clear amber, small layer of white head. Smell is caramel malts, subtile hoppy notes. Taste is full, crispy, caramelly, mild to medium bitterness. nice, but nothing extra-ordinary. Even though I was giften ( and thus dont know the price of this beer ) the custom made bottle makes me fear this will be sold way above it's to-be-expected price…
Alengrin (11609) reviewed 1st Libertus from Braxatorium Parcensis 6 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
The Park Abbey in Heverlee just south of Leuven, like other medieval abbeys in this part of the world, had a brewing history dating back centuries before the French Revolution put an end to it. Long after that, in the 20th century, they had an own beer brand created (Park) and brewed by Haacht exclusively for the ALDI supermarket chain – a brand that still exists, but apparently is now physically executed in Ireland for some reason. However, and I can only assume the current beer hype must have played a decisive role in this, the monks were dreaming of having their own microbrewery within the premises of the abbey again like centuries ago, and here we are: a local layman, brewer Joris Brams, was attracted and a microbrewery built, capable of brewing some 200 hl per year. The first beer was originally meant to be called Quirinus, but since this name is already in use for beer elsewhere in this country, it was changed to Libertus, an ‘amber’ beer brewed with local ingredients and bottled in olive green, English-style stubby bottles with a sober label. This beer shows a medium thick, mousy, snow white, regularly edged head and misty, deep orangey peach blonde robe, indeed approaching amber but not as ‘red’, with lively visible sparkling. Aroma of ripe peach, banana, freshly cut red sweet apples, dusty old coriander seed, soggy rusk, honey, dried orange peel, moist white pepper. Fruity, crisp onset, lively and very minerally carbonated, with accents of red apple, peach, pineapple and a bit of banana; smooth body, bready and rusk-like maltiness with a thin peanutty edge, adorned with spicy phenols and actual, but soft coriander seed spiciness; fruity esters linger while a mildly earthy and bready yeastiness develops, alongside a late but well-positioned floral hop bitter note, remaining gentle but adequate nonetheless. Obviously – and as expected, or rather hoped – on a higher quality level than those Park beers from ALDI, and intentionally so; lacks a bit in nuttiness and ‘copperiness’ to truly qualify as an ‘amber’ for me, but in all a pleasant enough, ‘honest’ and technically well-executed Belgian blonde I’d happily drink again if I ever visit the abbey. Which is not such a bad idea perhaps, considering I never went there and it seems to be among the best-preserved medieval abbeys in the country…