Lowlander Beer Leftover Lemon & Elderflower

Leftover Lemon & Elderflower

 

Lowlander Beer in Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Netherlands 🇳🇱

Brewed at/by: De Proefbrouwerij
  Fruit Beer Spring
Score
6.15
ABV: 3.8% IBU: - Ticks: 10
Fruit beer brewed with surplus lemon & elderflower. Imagine a delicious fruit beer that’s also a solution to food waste. Well, you’re holding it right now. We took elderflower, one of Spring’s loveliest floral flavours, and combined it with surplus lemons that were rejected by supermarkets. Then we made this bright, citrussy, refreshing beer that’s great on the palate – and great for the planet too. Remember: taste not waste!
 

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4
Appearance - 5 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 3.5

A slightly hazy golden yellow beer with a white head. Aroma of lemon and elderflower lemonade. Taste of lemon, some elderflower, zest, no beer flavour, easy to drink.

Tried from Bottle on 22 Sep 2025 at 17:29


4.9
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 5 | Overall - 5

Heller, limonadig brotiger Beginn. Moderate Herbe, etwas kräutrig, süffig, einfach aber nett. 9/6/8/7/9/7

Tried from Bottle on 20 Sep 2025 at 08:26


6.4
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

Wheat beer flavoured with leftover lemons and elderblossoms (making me wonder where these leftovers originally came from), from the Albert Heijn supermarket in Lokeren. Thick and foamy, egg-white, membrane-lacing, dense, stable head over a near clear pale straw-yellow robe with greenish tinge. Aroma initially rather lightstruck (stale armpit sweat), fading more slowly than usual (alas), but not getting too much in the way of impressions of dry lemon zest, matcha tea, rucola, that cheesy and floral hint of elderblossom but faintly so, wet sand, white bread, withering leek and an annoying background hint of yellow lemonade. Thinly but consistently sweet onset, a bit sugary even (Radler vaguely springs to mind, but fortunately not that sweet by any means), fruity notes of red apple, ripe pear and indeed sourish lemon (though very softly); prickly carbonation, slick mouthfeel with slick, soapy, bit sourish wheat dominating, very smooth and a bit thin, with a green fruitiness continuing as well as that sugary touch, the latter becoming a bit lemonade-like again in the end. Cheesy, blossomy elderflower appears retronasally while hops remain all but absent, furthering this wheat slickness, sugary aspect and lemon zestiness to a rather unsatisfying finish. The Ghentian 'Roomer' elderblossom liqueur springs to mind, but remotely so and in a much thinner way. Clearly adapted for the masses - and though these Lowlander beers may seem interesting for their sometimes unusual application of botanicals, I still do not get them, none of them has managed to convince me so far. Oh well, who knows, maybe this concoction functions better when drunk ice cold on a benign spring day than on a freezing cold January night...

Tried on 25 Jan 2025 at 00:17


6.5

Countdown to 2500!!! T-1! Hmm, definitely will have to pick something better for the 2500

Tried from Bottle on 19 Apr 2024 at 13:51


6.4
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

0.33 l bottle from 'AH XL' (Enschede), best before August 2025. A little hazy, golden yellow with a thin, frothy, slowly diminishing, white head. Sweetish, gently fruity aroma of lemon, grains and traces of elderflower. Slightly sweet, a little sourish, gently fruity taste of lemon, grains and a touch of elderflower, followed by a short, gently bitter, minimally tart finish. Thin to medium body, gently effervescent mouthfeel, soft carbonation. Pleasant, fairly refreshing stuff, quite good for what it is and especially for such a low abv.

Tried from Bottle on 31 Mar 2024 at 17:25


6.9
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 6.5 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7

Bottle. Almost clear light golden. Indeed some sweet lemon, wheat, soft yeast, coriander, a hint of elderflower or maybe that's just because they're on the label. Medium sweet, light sour. Refreshing, a bit like a radler.

Tried from Bottle on 18 Mar 2024 at 17:39


5.9
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5

Fles 33cl thuis. Zoet, lemon, citrus, vlierbloesem, radler invloeden, zuren, fruitig, wat sinaasappel. (17-9-2023).

Tried on 17 Sep 2023 at 13:02


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7
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7

Pours a light hazy pale yellow colour and a dense white head that doesn't last long. Aroma's of lemon, lemon pie, slightly floral. Retronasal it's sourish, lemon, light sweet, elderflower. Flavour is light sweet and light sour. Light bodied. Light bitterness in the finish. Quite nice on this hot Summer night.

Tried from Bottle on 06 Sep 2023 at 19:34


5.8
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 6

33cl Fles. Mistig bleekgele kleur, witte kraag. Citroensap, licht zuur, licht moutig, hint van vlierbloesem, OK voor een radler maar toch echt te waterig voor een degelijk bier.

Tried on 22 Jul 2023 at 16:40


6.1
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5

Fles gedeeld door Roelzie Het is een troebel bleekgeel bier met een volle witte schuimkraag. Het heeft een aroma van limoen en citrus. De smaak is fris zuur en limoen achtig.

Tried on 02 Jun 2023 at 20:28