Blauw
Brouwerij Omer Vander Ghinste (Bockor) in Bellegem, West Flanders, Belgium 🇧🇪
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5.80
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BLAUW is an export beer, a beer type of bottom fermentation that was very popular in the 1950s. At that time, heavy manual labor was very important and the workers drank beer regularly.
At that time, export had a lower alcohol percentage than the regular lager and it was always offered in 33cl. That way they could drink more beer, without their work performance having to suffer.
Today, the export beer from Brewery Omer Vander Ghinste is called "BLAUW", because it was the color of the clothing that the workers were wearing to work. It is still offered in bottles of 33cl, but now has the same alcohol percentage as the lager. (5.2% alc.vol.)
BLAUW is brewed exclusively with natural raw materials: water, corn, barley malt, hops and yeast. Without the addition of preservatives, BLAUW therefore has a limited shelf life (9 months) and is preferably consumed as fresh as possible.
At that time, export had a lower alcohol percentage than the regular lager and it was always offered in 33cl. That way they could drink more beer, without their work performance having to suffer.
Today, the export beer from Brewery Omer Vander Ghinste is called "BLAUW", because it was the color of the clothing that the workers were wearing to work. It is still offered in bottles of 33cl, but now has the same alcohol percentage as the lager. (5.2% alc.vol.)
BLAUW is brewed exclusively with natural raw materials: water, corn, barley malt, hops and yeast. Without the addition of preservatives, BLAUW therefore has a limited shelf life (9 months) and is preferably consumed as fresh as possible.
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6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Glass, golden clear, small head. Aroma malt, grain, some hops. Taste is the same, sweet, small bitter and somewhat fizzy. Ok
Tried
on 24 Jan 2018
at 19:10
7/10
Imported from untappd on 02-05-2020
Tried
from Bottle
on 02 Dec 2017
at 15:08
6.3/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
330 ml. bottle @ Greenway Antwerp. Sparkling hazy golden, little lager head. Nose is mellow iron, dirty grains, fizzy, corn & more metal. Taste is dull iron, strongly metallic industrial lager, fizzy grains, stale old cheap grains, corn,… Metallic fizzy. Got a tad hard to drink towards the end. For an industrial pale lager this is much better than average. It didn’t bother my burger taste-wise.
Tried
from Bottle
on 13 Aug 2016
at 02:57
3.2/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 3
Flavor 3
Texture 4
Overall 3
Bottle (Petalax). Golden color, small white head. Musty, a bit fruity grainy aroma. Light-bodied. Harsh, grainy, light sweetish bulk lager. Short finish. Crap.
Tried
from Bottle
on 23 Apr 2016
at 06:59
3.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 4
Flavor 3
Texture 4
Overall 3
Bottled. Golden colour, mediumsized white head. Aroma is grains, some stomach acid sweetness as well. Flavour is grains, some herbal and mild starchlike sweetness. Cheapo feeling.
Tried
from Bottle
on 23 Apr 2016
at 06:56
5.3/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 6
Clear golden colour. Aroma has a touch of sweet malts. Fairly crisp and clean pilsener. Preferable taste compared to some of its more heavily marketed pils-peers.
Tried
on 01 Apr 2016
at 13:52
5.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 5
Texture 8
Overall 4.5
*Old rating. Best before 13.11.12. Nice fresh and easy to drink Pils. Smooth with a mild and fresh grainy body. Not very deep, nice and round, sessionable!
Tried
on 13 Mar 2016
at 17:04
5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 4
Pajiza clara, ligeramente turbia, con fina burbuja. Un dedo de espuma. Aroma plano, malteado. Refrescante con carbonatacion media y cuerpo medio. Bebible y agradable sin más.
Tried
from Can
on 11 Jun 2015
at 12:59
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
@ cafe den trap , bottle . Description is hilarious . ’ real drinkers prefer to drink it from bottle ’ = real drinkers are dunk rednecks ??? Pours cristal clear blonde , good white head . No real scent . Low yet sharp carbo . Taste is sweet , unfermentable malty sweetness . Ok , bit bitter . Feels natural .
Tried
from Bottle
on 08 Oct 2014
at 08:35
5.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
’Export’ in the old Belgian sense of the word, so a standard pale lager in 33 cl bottles, tasted some twelve years ago when it was still named Bockor Blauw. Not completely the same as their Bockor Pils but you’d have to taste them side by side to note the micro differences between them. This one seemed a bit softer, less metallic and fruitier. Enjoyable but nothing special.
Tried
from Bottle
on 01 Sep 2014
at 01:16