Royale Ella
Abbaye de Leffe in Dinant, Namur, Belgium 🇧🇪
Belgian Style - Strong Ale Regular|
Score
5.78
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minutemat (16469) reviewed Royale Ella from Abbaye de Leffe 8 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 4.5
75cl bottle @ monthly tasting, Chez Sophie. Pours clear gold, thin white head. Aroma has a soft sweetness, light yeast, light citrus. Hops seem quite light on the palate, soft belgian yeast sweetness, not really hitting the high notes though, as expected.
Gurthnar (14774) reviewed Royale Ella from Abbaye de Leffe 8 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 3 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 4
Bottle. Loads of simple sugary honeyish sweetness, lacking some counterbalance. Yeasty sweetness is quite light, hops practically nonexistent. Single-dimensional and unbalanced.
cuso (17277) reviewed Royale Ella from Abbaye de Leffe 8 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 4.5
Bittle kindly donated by Rubin77, many thanks. Orange golden color with minimal white head. Aroma of malt, caramel, candies. Taste, the same.
Rubin77 (10243) reviewed Royale Ella from Abbaye de Leffe 8 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
F: medium size, almost white, poor retention. C: deep gold, clear. A: malty, peach peels, floral, apricot, rose, hint of vegetables. T: malty, peach, floral, rose, bit of toasted malt, vegetables notes, medium body, medium carbonation, there is also corn in the content so be as cheap as possible, commercial beer but still not brutal disaster at all, 33cl bottle from Carrefour market – St. Michel @ Etterbeek, Brussels.
Alengrin (11675) reviewed Royale Ella from Abbaye de Leffe 8 years ago
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 2 | Overall - 4
AB InBev, the ultimate corporate beer producer loathed by many a craft beer afficionado including myself, will not cease to throw more variations on this Leffe Royale theme onto the market - and honestly, I’m afraid the possibilities are endless, so as long as there is enough turnover (supported by tv commercials and the like - they have the money for this degree of marketing, of course), I’m afraid new ones will keep popping up. This one intends to celebrate the Australian Ella variety, a child of Galaxy, but I have little hope that the character of this delicate and versatile hop will be displayed here - or even respected. Medium thick, regular, snow white head, loosely knit and consisting of rather coarse bubbles, fizzing away and eventually reduced to a thin rim and some flat islands in the middle, atop a cristal clear, warm ’old gold’ coloured beer with deep orange hue and some lonely bubbles here and there. Aroma is expectedly industrial to a very high degree, with that afwul odour of pasteurization on top, as in some kind of industrial powder-based carrot soup that has been boiling for hours, next to unmistakable fusel alcohol effects, industrial caramel (which has been proven to be even bad for your health), melting white sugar, plastic and a lot of it, more faint hints of pepper, candied orange peel, toast, freshly ironed cloth, soaking wet corn - but, unsurprisingly, not the slightest sign of ’real’ hops. Thin, bland onset, neutral basis with a lot of artificial caramel sweetness on top, ’dead’ and no true fruitiness, fairly soft carbo for something that must be artificially carbonated - reflected by the unstability of the head too - and corn-like sweetish underneath; slick, glueish mouthfeel, bit resiny, quite unpleasant. Corn, maltose and artificial caramel dominate the middle, as if to try and clumsily (and cheaply) constitute a true malt body like some Frankenstein monster, while the alcohol effect becomes apparent way before its time - already becoming wry before the finish. The caramel sweetness and this alcohol astringency keep dominating, a late bitterness is added in the finish but in such an obtuse way that it becomes initially hard to distinguish from the wry alcohol and chemical effects, so the hops are almost drowned in a symphony of bad taste and cheap industrial production methods. Admittedly some dull hop bitterness does linger afterwards, but in such a dull way that it could come from most any hop variety - nothing even remotely Ella-like is to be perceived here. Presented as an abbey ale, this is very clearly not an ale but a strong lager, disguised as an honorable abbey beer to justify the price - but considering merely the content, this belongs in the same family as John Martin’s Gordon Finest Gold and its unholy relatives, most of which, unlike this one, do not try to hide that they are cheap lagers (even designed for an audience of financially challenged alcoholics, with all due respect). Once again AB InBev makes me angry, and for more than one reason: first, for trying to sell a cheap strong, fusel alcohol- and chemical-ridden Euro lager coloured with caramel as a proud Belgian abbey ale is something I sincerely hate - and I’ve noticed that Grimbergen is using the same reprehensible practices too lately; and second, for pretending that the uneducated consumer can learn all these new hop varieties by comparing the different Leffe Royale editions with each other, thus stimulating him to go out and buy them all, whereas in reality, nothing of these hops survives the harsh industrial treatment - even if they are probably applied in the cheapest way possible to begin with. At least they did not add "IPA" to the label like they did with that Cascade version. I passionately hate this brand so much - and this one in particular now: even within that Royale range, this is among the poorest renditions of a brand which is completely fake and artificial to begin with. Spread the word: avoid Leffe at all times!
nathanvc (7053) reviewed Royale Ella from Abbaye de Leffe 9 years ago
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 3 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 2.5
Pours amber with a disappearing white head. The aroma contains some faint hops and fruit, artificial sweetener, sugar... It tastes medium sweet and very light hoppy bitter. Light body, fizzy carbonation and sticky texture. Very chemical feel. Another shameful marketing stunt from InBev.
Kraddel (15872) reviewed Royale Ella from Abbaye de Leffe 9 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 3 | Flavor - 3 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 3
thnx to Ships ! Happy I don’t have to give any €€€ to this shit Brewery. The chemical-mix stinks like chemicals. Sweet, very arteficial. Taste is sharp, sweet, chemical, ’malts’ (yeah, right ... ) unnatural bitterness that lasts 0.1 seconds. terrible, but no surprise there.
77ships (14509) reviewed Royale Ella from Abbaye de Leffe 9 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 3 | Flavor - 3 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 4
Bottle shared with Kraddel. Another one of these. Australian hop? Whatever. Must have been cheap or something. Clear sparkling amber golden, little tanned head. Nose is oddly, bafflingly sweet, moth balls, very chemical, moth balls, plastic,... Taste is strangely sweet oily, empty, chemical sugar, vanilla even, plastic, soap, moth balls, cotton balls soaked in vegetable oil,... Body is sweet chemical candy & vegetable oil. Very weird, baflingly sweet & very chemical. Poorer than most others within this series. Worse than expected & expectations weren’t high.