Brasserie De La Hantes Léa Blonde

Léa Blonde

 

Brasserie De La Hantes in Beaumont, Hainaut, Belgium 🇧🇪

Brewed at/by: Brasserie de la Couronne - L'Impératrice
  IPA - Belgian Regular
Score
6.39
ABV: 5.5% IBU: - Ticks: 1
La Léa est une bière légère & rafraîchissante à base d’arômes naturels.
La Léa contient du Styrian, du Hallertau blanc & 3 types de Mosaïc de houblon.
Ce qui lui donne un gout frais et rafraîchissant, tout en relevant une légère amertume en bouche.
 

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One of two beers (the other being a tripel) that were created by hobby brewer Aurélien Fontaine in late 2019; though he poses as a brewery (Brasserie de la Hantes), at least he is honest about the fact that his two Léa beers are brewed at Couronne in Leval-Trahegnies, a village south of La Louvière. This blonde Léa was eager to get out of the bottle apparently: even with careful opening, it gushed so intensely that I could not avoid losing about 1/3 of the content. The leftover formed a typical 'gusher head', very thick and foamy at first but coarse and large-bubbled, quickly collapsing, off-white, lacing in a thick membrane over a cloudy peach blonde robe with murky-beige hue. Aroma of ripe peach, clove, soggy sandwiches, wet grass, spoiled potato mash, baker's yeast, old apple peel, wet clay. Sweetish, estery onset, banana, peach and pear, softish in carbonation (most of it escaped explosively during the gushing); soft bready and cereally malt bed with lots of bready yeastiness, tasting rather 'empty' and neutral. Minerally notes in the end along with a mild floral hoppiness and an overload of spicy phenols. The gushing was about the most exciting aspect here - the content is boring to the bone. Low in flavour, simplistic, yeasty, underhopped - this feels like it was brewed in some amateur's kitchen, I am sorry to say. Clearly needs work - or perhaps another executive brewery...
Tried from Bottle on 07 Jul 2021 at 14:25