13 Craft Pilsner Export

Gushing to good, fluffy, snowwhite head over lively carbonated, faintly veiled golden beer. Spicy, leafy nose with pilsner malts. Very 'beery' nose; nettles, dry green hops. Dry bitter flavour with a lot of non-sweet grains. Finish is dry - almost lean - giving it a tad empty impression. Very light body. Too well carbonated. Good Lager. I wonder - is there any connection to Rafexport?

Can at Billie’s, Saturday. Nem keszitettem jegyzeteket, csak pontoztam a sort.

Sampled @ Zythos Beer Festival 2022. A clear yellow golden beer with a white lacing. Aroma of mid sweet pale malt, grains. Taste of mild sweet grainy pale malt, straw, moderate bitterness.

Clear blond colour, white foam. Sweet malty, bready with notes of wet bread, some citruss and bitter finish. Ok Export.

Imported from my RateBeer account as The Ministry Of Belgian Beer Export 13 (by The Ministry Of Belgian Beer):
Aroma: 7/10, Appearance: 4/5, Taste: 6/10, Palate: 3/5, Overall: 13/20, MyTotalScore: 3.3/5

21/VII/19 - 33cl bottle from Bierhalle Deconinck (Vichte) @ home, BB: 24/II/20 - (2019-1073)
Clear dark blond to orange beer, solid creamy white head, bit irregular, pretty stable, adhesive, leaving some lacing in the glass. Aroma: very malty, grains, hay, cow fodder, bit metallic. MF: ok carbon, medium body. Taste: pretty bitter start, malty, bit metallic, grains. Aftertaste: more bitterness, slightly sweet, hint of banana, pretty dry, herbal finish.

The new, low ABV version of proud Ghent's 13 Pils, intended to be drunk in larger quantities at festivals and so on. Fluffy, snow white, stable, mousy, paper-lacing head on a lightly hazy, pure golden blonde beer. Aroma of white bread slices, unripe banana, freshly cut grass, touch dough, vague soapy accent. Crisp, clean taste, straightforwardly cereally-sweetish but 'genuine' and a little bit bready, feeling fuller than its ABV would suggest; minerally carbonation, dryish finish with a subtle grassy and floral hop bitterness, mildly bittering (at least milder than the regular 13 Pils versions). I actually had this in avant-première when the brewer offered a friend and me a sip of three versions of it which he had prepared, one with Saaz, one with Hallertau and one with a combination of both; both my friend and I preferred the latter, and apparently this is what it became in commercial form. Simple and quite unassuming 'pilsje', in all, but at this level of purity, every beer enthusiast knows that this is not easy to achieve correctly, and Dimitri and his crew pulled it off. Very clean, all-malty, 'honestly' but subtly hoppy, this version perfectly serves its own purpose, and should replace each and every drop of bland and industrially made macro lager in Ghent - at festivals and beyond.