Sociaal
Brasserie iLLeGaaL in Forest / Vorst, Brussels Capital Region, Belgium 🇧🇪
Lager - Premium Regular|
Score
6.35
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tderoeck (22946) reviewed Sociaal from Brasserie iLLeGaaL 11 months ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
11/IV/25 - 33cl can from Geers (Oostakker), shared @ holiday in France, BB: 20/I/26 (2025-338)
Clear yellow blond beer, small creamy irregular white head, unstable, falls down quickly, non adhesive. Aroma: pretty fruity start, some peaches, ripe banana, a touch of citrus. MF: ok carbon, medium to light body. Taste: malty start, grains, a bit sweet, gentle bitterness, a bit grassy, hoppy, pretty dry. Aftertaste: hoppy, bitter, a hint of banana, some bubble gum, malty touch, some citrus, decent lager.
Taboada (8889) reviewed Sociaal from Brasserie iLLeGaaL 3 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Draught, half pint. @Moeder Lambic Fontainas, 03/09/2022 [#5.334 Global - #174 Belgium - #1 Brasserie ILLegaaL (My Belgian brewery #71)] Pours pale golden with a white head. Aroma: subtle floral, cereals, straw and soft caramel. Weak aroma. Taste: cereal, pale malts, soft honey and floral hops. Easy drinking. Next one please!
Alengrin (11675) reviewed Sociaal from Brasserie iLLeGaaL 5 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 5
The fourth beer already in this IllegaaL project, dedicated to promoting artistic projects (so not focused on producing beer as such, making it a doubtful case as a 'bierfirma'); a mysterious one, but the friendly guys behind it were open enough to reveal that it is brewed at Jandrain-Jandrenouille. The label does not reveal anything either - simply because this beer is filled in cans without any label; the only print I can find, is a serial number somewhere near the bottom and the best before date on the bottom of the can. I wonder how 'official' this is - there are some, though not nearly enough, pieces of information a brewery is obliged to mention on the package and none of that is to be found here... Anyway: medium thick, off-white, irregularly but tightly lacing, slowly opening head over a crystal clear, warm and pure golden beer with 'old gold' tinge. Aroma of flour, chewing gum, dust, bread crumbs, sweetcorn, hints of unripe banana, a sweet aspect of industrial apple juice, ripe pear or even honey cookies (weirdly), wet granite rocks, polyester, touch damp earth. Neutral onset, minerally with refinedly stinging carbonation, more rounded pale maltiness further on in a simple, sweetish-grainy, thinnish, slick way, raw barley almost with a softer white-bready touch to it; slight 'powdery' effect in the end, bread crumbs and sawdust, but remaining fairly neutral and bland, even if a gentle floral hop bitterness does develop in the finish. A minerally, almost metallic aspect lingers, along with this subduedly sweetish graininess, but otherwise not much happens. Almost feels like a supermarket lager of the 'premium' echelon, which was probably the intention; honest, but clean, very straightforward and simplistic, mimicking the macro brands, even if for more 'ethical' reasons I would recommend this one instead.