Pils
Van Bulck Beers in Oostende, West Flanders, Belgium 🇧🇪
Lager - Pilsener Regular|
Score
6.64
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BlackHaddock (17284) reviewed Pils from Van Bulck Beers 1 year ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
33cl bottle picked up in Belgium on my last trip (early May): BB 5th November 2024, drank at home on 1st May 2024. Bio and Belgian says the neck label and that sums up what this pretty good Pils is all about. Golden body, white crown, soft yet crisp and hoppy with a decent malt base, weak aroma like most beers of this style but I enjoyed what esters it did give out.
Alengrin (11609) reviewed Pils from Van Bulck Beers 1 year ago
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7.5
Pilsener by this Ostend-based client brewer, luckily not containing any malt adjuncts and hopped with New World hops - so in concept at least, IPL may be a beckoning from a distance. Longneck bottle from the Carrefour supermarket in the Groene Vallei in Ghent. Creamy and dense, snow white, frothy, thick and stable head, near clear pale straw blonde robe with greenish tinge and quite lively sparkling, pushing up tiny bits of protein here and there; shifting to a hazy yellow blonde further on. Aroma of white bread or even sourdough, dried lemonbalm, old lemon peel (the Cascade?), freshly cut grass and garden weeds, margarine, old potatoes, damp straw, wet flour, courgette, touch of dusty old paper. Crisp onset, a bit fruitier than normal for the genre due to the residual yeast, with vague notes of halfripe banana and pear, but not really sweet; more malt fruitiness after that, with prickly carbonation (softer than industrial pale lager, though) and smooth, bit glueish mouthfeel, feeling quite 'full' for this kind of beer. White-bready pale malt sweetishness, a bit 'moelleux', under remains of that estery fruitiness and retronasally carrying a lemonbalm-, zucchini- and pepino-tinged hop aroma, while the bitterness from the hops grows - yet restrains itself quite early on, to let the esters and malt sweetness pass through unscathed. There is a vague background citrusiness in here somewhere and the New World hops do add a certain freshness as well as a 'postmodern' feel, but there is also a residual sweetness that lingers, a bit much so for what is intended as a Pilsener. I wonder if this is not top-fermented after all, because it sure tastes yeasty and rounded enough for that... In any case a pleasant enough beer, easygoing and very different from what the average consumer expects when he sees 'Pils' on a Belgian label.
Rubin77 (10187) reviewed Pils from Van Bulck Beers 2 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
33cl bottle from Primeurs Achiel in Oostende. F: medium, white, average retention. C: gold, light hazy. A: malty, bready, light hoppy. T: medium malty base, bready, sweet grainy, light bitterness, medium carbonation, bio so what probably ok, partially enjoyed.
omhper (44752) reviewed Pils from Van Bulck Beers 2 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
--Bottled. -- Clear pale golden, rich firm head. Spicy grassy nose. Mid sweet with medium body and rounded mouthfeel. Sweet, fruity malty malt. Spicy grassy hops, notes of citrus. Low to medium bitterness.