Concordia Hell's Pils
The Brew Society in Heule, West Flanders, Belgium 🇧🇪
Lager - Pilsener Regular|
Score
6.31
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Alengrin (11609) reviewed Concordia Hell's Pils from The Brew Society 3 weeks ago
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6.5 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 6.5
Pale lager honouring the defunct Concordia brewery in Geraardsbergen, closed in the early eighties; seemingly an idea from the local Lions Club. Thanks tderoeck for sharing the can. Dense, egg-white, creamy and thick, stable head on a pale orange-tinged apricot blonde beer with tiny dots of protein floating around everywhere - not looking very much like a 'pils' at all. Aroma of banana, honey, peach, raw broccoli somewhere, brandy without the alcohol, pronounced 4-vinyl-guaiacol (clove), touch rusty iron. Sweetish onset, fruity banana, peach and pear notes, lively carb with smooth body; soft bready malts with a very thin biscuity edge (explained by the darker colour hinting at cara malts) carrying phenolic spiciness (clove) in a mildly bittering, floral finish, where this rusty iron element returns too. 'Pils' is a fairly narrowly defined genre and this is certainly not one - the phenols and esters betray its ale nature, and the addition of caramelised malts has nothing to do with the genre either so once again, we have here a mislabelled beer style-wise... Ignoring this style issue, it is not an upleasant one to drink, but I wonder how far the relation with the original Concordia brews really stretches. Not too far, I reckon.
tderoeck (22711) reviewed Concordia Hell's Pils from The Brew Society 3 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 4
22/XI/22 - on tap @ HoReCa expo (Gent), BB: n/a (2022-1657) Thanks to Erwin, Peter and others for sharing today’s beers.
Clear pale straw yellow beer, big solid creamy white head, stable, a bit adhesive, leaving some lacing in the glass. Aroma: a little malty, grains, hay, straw, some sulphur. MF: ok carbon, medium to light body. Taste: very malty start, grains, hay, pretty bitter, raw grains, cow fodder, some overripe fruits, pretty oxidised, malty, some orange peel. Aftertaste: metallic, very malty, grains, hay, cow fodder, some overripe banana, a bit metallic in the finish.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Bottle from Pede. Clear blond colour, white foam. Medium bitter, some sweet maltiness. Decent pilsner.