Bidon
Broeder Jacob in Wezemaal, Flemish Brabant, Belgium 🇧🇪
Brewed at/by: Brouwerij Anders!Lager - Pale Regular
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Score
6.30
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Alengrin (11561) reviewed Bidon from Broeder Jacob 7 months ago
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 6.5
Blonde brewed with wheat and pale malt intended as a thirst quencher and seeking connection with the rich tradition of cycling in Belgium - which many beers have done long before (think of Flandrien by Louwaege in the nineties, and so on). Apparently bottom fermented - that is at least what the back label states - but with the addition of wheat, it can never be a true Pilsener, can it? Medium thick, off-white, cobweb-lacing, regular, moussey head over a crystal clear, yellow-golden robe with disparate sparkling, turning misty and deeper old gold further on. Aroma of freshly baked white bread or fresh white bread dough, unsugared bubblegum, green banana, white soap, wet cigarette paper, halfripe pear, natural rubber, dried field flowers, raw potatoes, touch of industrial honey. Sweetish onset, quite fruity for a lager, with notes of green pear, unripe banana and a dash of oxidized green apple; sourish undertone, accentuated by lively, yet - for the category intended here - not overly harsh. Some minerality underlies a smooth pale malty middle, white-bread-doughy with clear wheat slickness, sourishness and even soapiness that is as strong as the pale barley malt is, but also reinforcing this rather annoying aspect of bubblegum a bit. Herbal and floral hops develop in the finish, providing a somewhat lasting but altogether mild bitterness, along with retronasal accents of chamomile tea and garden weeds. This dim, underlying sourishness remains till the very end; in all, the sweetness I was fearing based on orthonasal observation remains relatively restrained, fortunately. Some bready-yeasty touches here and there too. More balanced than I was expecting, but the bubblegummy aspect (though fading in the end) and that 'whiny' sourishness all the way through bother me a bit. In terms of style: clearly this is again one of those contemporary Belgian blondes trying to get as close to Pilsener as they can, a seemingly growing phenomenon now that the 'big wave' of more exuberant craft beers has been declining for several years, but if you go through the trouble of bottom fermentation, then why add wheat to the malt bill and why not filter it entirely, so that, perhaps and with some more extensive cold lagering, a truly fine German style lager (Helles or Pilsener) may have emerged? This seems to get stuck somewhere halfway, making it difficult to classify (not Broeder Jacob's problem I assume) and thus difficult to judge. Apart from that, fairly drinkable, but with some annoying aspects here and there...
tderoeck (22679) reviewed Bidon from Broeder Jacob 2 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5
21/XI/23 - 33cl bottle @ HoReCa Expo 2023 (Gent), BB: 26/VI/26, 16:10 (2023-1103) Thanks to Erwin, Peter a.o. for sharing today’s beer!
Clear blond yellow beer, creamy white head, pretty stable, adhesive, leaving a nice lacing in the glass. Aroma: very malty, grains, hay, cow fodder, pretty dirty. MF: ok carbon, medium to light body. Taste: a bit watery, grains, hay, gentle bitterness, watery, a bit sweet. Aftertaste: watery, grains, hay, cow fodder, a bit sweet, meh.
Icedwarf (4850) reviewed Bidon from Broeder Jacob 3 years ago
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Helder goudgeel bier met heel veel stevig schuim. Smaak is bitter hoppig en licht zoet met duidelijk iets van graan. Fijn bier.
Benzai (24278) reviewed Bidon from Broeder Jacob 3 years ago
Appearance - 5 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5
Bottle at home. Hazy yellow color, huge foamy white head. Not a lit of aroma. Distant sweetish malty grainy notes. Flavor is quite bland as well. Meh not a fan, expected it better.
thanatosti (4460) reviewed Bidon from Broeder Jacob 4 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5
33 cl. bottle @ home, bought @ van Rooij, Culemborg.
Light hazy golden with a white head. Grainy aroma with some faint citrus aroma and some wheat. Sweet taste with a medium bitter finish. Nice thirst quencher.