1784 Schelfaut Export
Brouwerij Van Steenberge in Ertvelde, East Flanders, Belgium 🇧🇪
Lager - Pale Regular|
Score
5.86
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From the brewery's website:
Een dorstlessende pils, een doordrinker met zachte smaak.
4.8%
Kleur: Blond
Alcoholvolume: 4,8% - 10.8° Plato
Smaak: Fris en dorstlessend
Afdronk: Lichtbitter
Verpakking: Fles 33cl, vat 20l
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Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 5.5 | Flavor - 5.5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5
Draught Very good off-white head over clear golden beer, not overly carbonated. Fresh yeast, grassy, pale malts. Sweet pale malts, metallic bitterness in the finish. Not very enjoyable. Creamy > very stable head and a long sweetish aftertaste. Average, even if some tasters liked it better.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
@ Winterbar, Gent. Clear blond colour, white foam. Malty, some sweetness, light bitter finish. Medium carbonation.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Bottle @ home. Almost clear pale golden body under a medium sized white head. Light aroma, mainly malt and grain. Taste is medium sweet pale malt, grain and some light floral hops. Mild, smooth and very soft. Medium body and average aftertaste. An easy drinkable, soft lager without much complexity.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5
25/VIII/21 - 33cl bottle from Geers (Oostakker), shared @ summer holiday in France, BB: 19/IV/22, 19JT 09:40 (2021-961)
Clear pale blond to gold beer, small creamy white head, stable, adhesive, leaving a nice lacing in the glass. Aroma: very malty, grains, hay, cow fodder, rural, a bit of a metallic impression. MF: ok carbon, medium body. Taste: a bit malty first, slightly bitter, grains, cow fodder, sweet touch, fruity notes. Aftertaste: still very malty, grains, hay, a little bitter still, some cornflakes, a metallic touch.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 4.5
Bottle, 330 ml at Ambasada. Clear golden with medium white head. Malty, cardboard, bland. Sweetish. Light bodied.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5
Bottled 330ml. -from Ambasada Zagreb. Golden coloured, medium sized white head, light grainy nose. Sweetish malty, grainy, light herbal and bready with short bitterish finish.
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 4.5 | Flavor - 4.5 | Texture - 5 | Overall - 4
The latest new Van Steenberge product to date (launched in summer 2020), an old-fashioned pale lager in 33 cl bottles, dubbed 'export' in mid-twentieth century Belgium; the label too looks very vintage so this is apparently an attempt to pull the old time machine trick. Pays tribute to Margriet Schelfaut, the wife of the third brewer in Van Steenberge's long history. Bottle from Latems Drankhuys. Egg-white, thick and frothy, irregularly lacing, very mousy head on a crystal clear, pale but 'pure' golden blonde beer with old gold-ish tinge and lively sparkling. Aroma of raw barley, industrial white bread, flour, talcum powder, minerally carbon dioxide at first (as in artificially carbonated sparkling water), vague hints of dried clover, lamb's lettuce, freshly mowed lawn, ferrous spring water. Neutral onset, dull grainy sweetishness, minerally and sparkling carbonation effect, hint of green grains; slick, thinnish body, rather metallic at the edges. Graininess in the middle but with a layer of thin white-breadiness to it as well, yet remaining slim and meagre, with that metallic effect continuing; finishes with the soft flavour they advertise on the back label, i.e. a very soft and mild touch of floral hoppiness, providing only a background impression of bitterness without ever becoming actually bitter, so that this sweetish graininess, the main flavour from the start, also remains the main flavour in the end. Export the Belgian way indeed - not to be confused with German Dortmunder Export - so a soft, simple standard pale lager in 33 cl bottles, nothing more, nothing less. Probably an alias of their core Sparta Pils, I should have done a side by side tasting...