Pick Up Pils
Brouwerij Walrave in Laarne, East Flanders, Belgium 🇧🇪
Lager - Pilsener Regular|
Score
5.81
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5.8/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 7
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 6
Amazing that this brewery is still active. This pilsener is their only surviving product. Painted bottle, bought at the brewery. Hops and cellary aroma. Malty flavor, with some orange, plastic and even hops. No specific aftertaste. Thin. Disappointing after the fine aroma.
Tried
from Bottle
on 26 Aug 2019
at 12:07
5.6/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
Imported from my RateBeer account as Walrave Pick Up Pils (by Brouwerij Walrave):
Aroma: 6/10, Appearance: 2/5, Taste: 6/10, Palate: 3/5, Overall: 11/20, MyTotalScore: 2.8/5
31/I/16 - 33cl bottle from the bar at the "brewery" @ Cybu's place - BB: n/a ("4 weeks after buying") (2016-88) Thanks to Cybu for sharing the bottle!
Clear pale yellow beer, aery fizzy off-white head, little stable, bit adhesive. Aroma: grains, hay, cow stable, bit sweet. MF: ok carbon, light to medium body. Taste: grains, pretty bitter touch, bit metallic. Aftertaste: hoppy, metallic, dry, slightly sweet touch.
Aroma: 6/10, Appearance: 2/5, Taste: 6/10, Palate: 3/5, Overall: 11/20, MyTotalScore: 2.8/5
31/I/16 - 33cl bottle from the bar at the "brewery" @ Cybu's place - BB: n/a ("4 weeks after buying") (2016-88) Thanks to Cybu for sharing the bottle!
Clear pale yellow beer, aery fizzy off-white head, little stable, bit adhesive. Aroma: grains, hay, cow stable, bit sweet. MF: ok carbon, light to medium body. Taste: grains, pretty bitter touch, bit metallic. Aftertaste: hoppy, metallic, dry, slightly sweet touch.
Tried
from Bottle
on 31 Jan 2016
at 15:08
6.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
Equally regional as old school unpasteurized ’pils’ with limited shelf life, only for sale in Laarne, the village where it is made, by an old family brewery of (extremely) low profile which hardly brews anything else... Firm, snow white, stable head, deep golden blond colour, clear. Aroma of pure pale malts, white bread, grassy hops, young cheese, some iron. Fresh and soft malty taste, neutral to lightly sweetish, bit breadish, sourish touch (probably the yeast which is still there) and delicate grassy hop bitterness in the finish. I consider this among the best of its genre in Belgium, but the genre is still standard pale lager, of course. Tasted from tap but also tasted in its equally old-fashioned form of Pick-Up Export, which is the same thing in 33 cl bottles.
Tried
from Draft
on 23 Sep 2014
at 12:01
5.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
(bottle, 25cl) Slightly hazy, pale golden colour with a blond and short foamy head. Slightly sour pale malty aroma with citric and sweaty hops. Mildly bitter and slightly sour flavour, light to medium bodied with a pleasantly matured carbonation. Slightly grainy and sour doughy pale malt-character; slightly bitter and doughy finish with herbal and slightly woody accents. Interesting Pils from a brave little brewery. 01.XI.11
Tried
from Bottle
on 13 Nov 2011
at 10:22
5.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 4
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 5
Bottle: At last! The most mysterious Lager from Belgium.... Pale golden, stable mid-sized white head, metallic-grainy nose; dryish bitter-sweet flavour, light bodied, but not thin, relatively soft; a very subtle fruitiness shows up in the shorter bitter-grainy finish. A gem - compared to Stella, but hardly worth a recommendation.......
Tried
from Bottle
on 10 Nov 2011
at 22:32
5.3/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 5
bottle at home ... at colins tasting .. golden yellow ...grassy hop nose ... zezty lemon ... grassy hop ... little bitterness ... cornflakes ...not for me at all...
Tried
from Bottle
on 29 Oct 2011
at 08:09
5.4/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 5
Flavor 7
Texture 4
Overall 5.5
Light golden colour, white head. Malty aroma, some grass, quite pronounced iron, metallic. Flavour light sweet, malty, some bitter hops, spicy hop taste. Not bad, the metallic smell is a pity. (From 25cL bottle @ home)
Tried
from Bottle
on 27 Oct 2011
at 08:26
4.8/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 4
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 5
Bottle 250ml. @ home.Clear light to medium yellow orange color with a small to average, frothy, fair lacing, mostly diminishing, white to off-white head. Aroma is light moderate malty, grain, toasted. Flavor is moderate sweet and light light bitter with a average duration. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft. [20100114]
Tried
from Bottle
on 21 Feb 2010
at 13:32
6.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 7
Hazy yellow-gold (cold haze?); fluffy dirty-white head, leaving shards of lace. Very grainy nose, straw, fresh yeast . Markedly sourish tang around corn flakes, (green)malt in the background; just a bit of sweet, bit herbal. Light bodied, but some grist slickness. Surprising pils. Sourishness is particular, but not off-putting. This ought to have a much wider public. The only small (pils!)brewery in Belgium malting its own!
Tried
on 22 Oct 2005
at 10:07
4.6/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 4
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 4.5
Clear yellow color, just a bit lacing. Dry malty aroma, some horseblanket. Bit sour citrus taste, little bitter. Odd brew, but not too bad.
Tried
on 24 Oct 2004
at 08:21