Eldorado
Brouwerij 't IJ in Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Netherlands 🇳🇱
Lager - India Style Regular Out of Production|
Score
6.61
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tricksta_p (13664) reviewed Eldorado from Brouwerij 't IJ 1 year ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Bottle from a local bottle shop. Aroma is hoppy with tropical fruit, grass, light pale malt, melon. Flavour is moderate bitter with low sweetness. Medium body. Aromatic, hoppy, tropical.
TomHendriksen (8176) reviewed Eldorado from Brouwerij 't IJ 2 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
Fles gedeeld door Roelzie. Het is een goudgeel bier met een volle witte schuimkraag. Het heeft een aroma van hop en citrus. De smaak is vol hoppig en citrus achtig met een bittere afdronk.
Alengrin (11609) reviewed Eldorado from Brouwerij 't IJ 2 years ago
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 7.5 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7
Lager hopped with "different hop varieties" which sadly remain undisclosed, though the very name of the beer (El Dorado) reveals at least one of them... One of the newer IJ beers, now under the experienced guidance and commercial exploitation of Moortgat; longneck bottle from the Albert Heijn supermarket in Lokeren. Thick, even somewhat foamy, egg-white, cobweb-lacing, audibly fizzing, very moussey, bit coarse, stable head on a crystal clear pure golden blonde beer with 'old gold' tinge and some disparate sparkling, misty with sediment. Aroma of half-dry lime and grapefruit peel, raw cereals, freshly cut grass, iron but not too obnoxiously so - as in raw spinach rather than actual iron objects, cooked broccoli but not too DMS-like (pasteurisation however seeming unlikely due to it at least being unfiltered), moist white pepper and quite a lot of it, overheated cotton cloth, fresh young mugwort, moss, very vague green mango somewhere, minerals. Crisp onset, some basic malt fruitiness (pear in this case) but no esters, sweetish with a dim sourish undertone, minerally carbonation as well as a slight metallic effect; smooth mouthfeel, slick cereally pale maltiness with the faintest touch of biscuit, under growing grassy hops, providing a mild yet still effective end bitterness as well as retronasal impressions of dried lime peel, freshly cut grass and vague background echoes of lemongrass and pomelo - but nowhere near as outspoken as they should be in a true IPL. Some mildly spicy bitterness lingers, but so do a 'cooked cloth'-like pasteurisation effect and a bland, straightforward pale malt sweetishness, the sweet element of which eventually began to bother me. IPL gone industrial, one could state; indeed hoppier than the average Dutch macro pale lager, but this is its only redeeming feature, in its core this is basically another simplistic pale lager hauling from a brewery that once pioneered the great Dutch craft beer movement, spiced up with an injection of New World hops which we are apparently not allowed to identify. I do not expect anything truly good to come out of 't IJ anymore after the Moortgat takeover - but now that I come to think of it and with a few scarce exceptions, they were never that great anyway in the eighties and nineties, at least not from a Belgian perspective. But that is history and now is today, of course... I can accept this as an IPL, though, and it clearly stands above the familiar range of macro-brewed, standardised supermarket lagers, there is no denying that.
Sloefmans (15389) reviewed Eldorado from Brouwerij 't IJ 2 years ago
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6.5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Slow gushing to thick yellowish-white head, stable, over faintly veiled golden beer. Green leaves, bit grassy, a strange hint of something alcohol-like and finishing on aromatic C-hops. Mild sweetish malts, hay, dry grasses, ever so slight caramel. Hops are very much in retreat, even compared to the nose, but the malt tastes fresh, and in the aftertaste I finally got some almost bitterish fruitflavours. Slick, medium bodied. In the end only medium carbonation. This one is not bad at all. Glad to see 't IJ correcting some recent slip ups. Txs to Stef!
beerhunter111 (50581) reviewed Eldorado from Brouwerij 't IJ 2 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Clear deep golden beer with a white head. Aroma of pale malt, some flowers, hay. Taste of mild sweet grainy malt, flowers, hay, mild bitterness.
Zlotta (9960) reviewed Eldorado from Brouwerij 't IJ 2 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
0.33 l bottle from 'Slijterij Berendsen', best before February 2024. Clear, golden amber with a thin, frothy, slowly diminishing, white head. Sweetish, rather fruity-floral, a bit herbal-grassy aroma of marmalade, black tea, grapefruit and light pine. Moderately sweet, slightly bitter, gently fruity-floral and a bit herbal-grassy taste of orange jam, black tea, grapefruit and light pine, followed by a short, gently bitter finish. Medium body, gently effervescent mouthfeel, average carbonation. Pleasant lager, nicely balanced even if not overly outspoken.
blackisle (5698) reviewed Eldorado from Brouwerij 't IJ 2 years ago
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 6.5 | Flavor - 6.5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Bottle 33cl. from a local AH supermarket @home poured into a footed pilsner glass. Colour bright pale golden, good loose frothy white head, half-way lasting, fair lacing. Aroma malts, orange, floral hops, spicy notes. Taste below medium sweet and bitter, malty, grain, orange, orange pith. Medium body, watery to oily texture, soft carbonation, mild dry sweetbitter aftertaste, husky notes, some acidity, has an unbalanced feel, nice.
Borresteijn (12407) reviewed Eldorado from Brouwerij 't IJ 2 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
33cl Fles van de Bierkoning. Goudgele kleur, mooie dichte witte kraag. Licht grassig, lichtzuur aroma, licht kruidig, wat grapefruit, citrusschil, moutig, bloemig, zacht-bitter. Lichte body. Prima pilsje.
Franclh (7477) reviewed Eldorado from Brouwerij 't IJ 2 years ago
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
Fles 33cl thuis. Fruitig, malttonen, redelijk hoppig, redelijk zoet, bittertonen, orange peel, meloen, wat yeasty, wat grassig, licht metaalsmaakje. (2-4-2023).
Bamsen78 (8674) reviewed Eldorado from Brouwerij 't IJ 2 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Bottle. Pours nearly clear light straw with stable white head. Clear aroma of hops, with notes of pepper and yeast, and mild touches of wet rag. Bitter flavour of hops, with acidic notes and touches of yeast and malt. Bitter and acidic aftertaste. Not unreasonable.