Vicaris Lino
Dilewyns in Dendermonde, East Flanders, Belgium 🇧🇪
Belgian Style - Blonde / Pale / Amber Regular|
Score
6.51
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Flax infused blonde. Vicaris Lino is a blond beer with a pleasant hop flavour and a light aftertaste. Lino is Italian for flax, the unique ingredient in this beer. The result is a balanced and most drinkable beer with a solid head. Apart from touches of flax, the rich aroma also contains citrus hops which provide a refreshing and light bitterness.
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oh6gdx (51139) reviewed Vicaris Lino from Dilewyns 3 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Bottled (from De Biertonne). Yellowish golden colour with a mediumsized foamy slighly off-white head, which leaves some lace. Aroma is fruity, floral, some spiciness and mild malts. Flavour is fruity, floral, yeasty, some slight spicy tones with mild herbs and sweet toffee. Very smooth and balanced.
blackisle (5698) reviewed Vicaris Lino from Dilewyns 3 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7
Bottle 33cl. @home poured into a tasting glass. Hazy medium golden colour, tall irregular frothy white head, good retention, leaving yeast circles, good lacing. Aroma sweet malts, grain, lemon, Belgian yeast, light herbal notes. Taste medium sweet and bitter, quite malty, grain, light lemon, yeast, spicy notes. Medium body, oily texture, average carbonation. sharpish mouthfeel, sweetbitter aftertaste, grainy and malty notes, some cardboard, has character, very nice.
Vignale (8386) reviewed Vicaris Lino from Dilewyns 3 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5
Flaska från Belgoklubben, tack Lasse. Disig gyllengul vätska med högt vitt skum. Doft av hö, jäst, gräs och örter. Rejäl kropp, torr, krispig, harzig ädelhumle, bra gräsig beska. Mycket gott
thanatosti (4472) reviewed Vicaris Lino from Dilewyns 3 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
33 cl. bottle @ my parents. Clear old yellow with a white head. Yeast fruit aroma. Sweet taste with a proper bitter finish. Nice blonde.
ninecats (617) reviewed Vicaris Lino from Dilewyns 3 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
75 cl, bottle Belgoklubben. Semi hazy yellow, big fluffy head that dissipates slowly, leaving lots of lacings. Aroma is gentle, citrus, flowers, light bread. Taste is moderate bitter, complex yeasty, spicy phenolic notes, long dry finish. Medium carbo, small bubbles. Quite enjoyable.
Alengrin (11609) reviewed Vicaris Lino from Dilewyns 4 years ago
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 7.5 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7
Newish Vicaris beer, flavoured with flax, a crop very traditionally cultivated in the region where the brewery is situated so I guess, like Leroy's flax-less Vlasbier, this beer is to be seen as a kind of tribute to the local flax and linen industry; the only other beer I ever tasted that contained flax for the same reason, was Brouwersatelier's final opus, called Brew Mutation Omega, but in that one only (unbroken) linseed was used and had very little - if any - influence on the taste so this one might well be the very first in the world to actually use flax (stems and leaves) as is claimed on the label. Medium thick, firm, irregularly but consistently lacing, off-white, dense and stable head on an initially near clear, warm yellowish golden beer with lots of visible sparkling, turning misty and deeper apricot-tinged with sediment. Aroma initially dominated by strong carbon dioxide but once this fades, shifting to impressions of white bread crust, wholegrain crackers, freshly cut green garden weeds (the flax, I am guessing), drying mandarin peel from the hops, nutmeg, fresh green apple, slate and other minerally effects, dry straw, raw parsnip, green banana, white soap, grass, raw potatoes. Lots of effervescence in the onset, very minerally and stingy, distracting from the flavour; I pick up some green-fruity notes of unripe banana and green apple but little sweetness. Rounded, slick body, white-bready maltiness with a grainy core and indeed a certain soapiness and 'weediness' I think represents the flax; soon, however, the hops take over and block every refined detail that may be connected to the ingredient celebrated here, making for a long, rooty, floral, grassy bitter finish, drying but effectively quenching. Soapy and grainy notes linger, together with minerally effects and a brief but convincing nutmeg- and mildly clove-like spiciness; the label mentions citrus hops having been used here, but their aromatic character remains all but absent - this clearly was not dry-hopped and perhaps this was the better decision, if you want that flax effect to come through. For me, the flax adds a soapy, weedy character to the whole, but I cannot say I have eaten a lot of it - I have in fact never eaten any flax, like the vast majority of the population, so it remains conceptually difficult to convey flavour of something almost nobody on the planet knows the flavour of. In general, a drying, well-bittered, quenching blonde, but the soapiness of it did more bad than good for me and the flax effect, whatever it may be, is so subtle that it cannot alter the overall impression of having "just another Belgian blonde"...
TBone (30139) reviewed Vicaris Lino from Dilewyns 4 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Bottled 330ml (AIH147)
Golden/pale amber colour, small steady white head. Aroma has some fruits and yeast. Light-bodied. Crisp. Some spicey Belgian yeastyness and fruits. Quite boring although flavour is ok.
Franclh (7477) reviewed Vicaris Lino from Dilewyns 4 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7.5 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5
Fles 33cl thuis. Bittertonen, zoeten, Belgisch gist, vlas, grassig, licht droog, matig kruidig, witte peper?, licht scherp, bloemig, fruitje. (31-10-2021).
tderoeck (22711) reviewed Vicaris Lino from Dilewyns 4 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
8/VIII/21 - 33cl bottle from Geers (Oostakker), shared @ home, BB: 27/V/22 (2021-745)
Clear blond gold beer, big creamy white head, stable, adhesive, leaving a nice lacing in the glass. Aroma: bit floral, grains, malty, spicy, peppery touch, yeasty. MF: ok carbon, medium body. Taste: sweet, banana, spicy, yeast, malty, grains, bit floral. Aftertaste: little bitter, spicy, grains, floral.
nathanvc (6963) reviewed Vicaris Lino from Dilewyns 4 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Bottle from Geers. Clear golden, stable, frothy, off-white head. Aroma of pear, apple peel, straw, cheese, jasmin, flowers, tea leaves, melon. Taste has sweetish pear, apple & melon, perfumey-flowery over honey-bready malt, bit sour. Grassy hoppy finish, straw, yellow fruit & perfume again. Medium body, oily texture, average carbonation. Classic Belgian Ale with a perfumey twist.