Duno Pils
BeerSelect in Sint-Denijs-Westrem, East Flanders, Belgium 🇧🇪
Fruit Beer Regular|
Score
6.55
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A blond beer you never tasted before. A highly satisfying scent combined with a subtle taste of seaberry makes this pils an absolute must-drink.
Ingredients: water, malted barley, hop yeast, seaberry
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nathanvc (6963) reviewed Duno Pils from BeerSelect 2 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 6
Can at the office.
A: hazy golden, thin, white head.
A: honey, pale malt, cereals, gooseberry, mandarin.
T: sweet honey, yeast, white bread, sourish berry & mandarin.
F: soft floral hops, sweet yeast & pale malt.
P: medium body, watery texture, soft carbonation.
Doesn't really deliver and weird to call this a Pils in the first place.
Alengrin (11609) reviewed Duno Pils from BeerSelect 2 years ago
Appearance - 9 | Aroma - 6.5 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7
'Pils' flavoured with sea buckthorn berries, commissioned by Seaberry Liquids, a company set up by a chef to produce liqueur made of sea buckthorn - now followed by this beer, executed at BeerSelect (not a coincidence: the chef in question apparently works at LOF, a restaurant in the Hoogstraat in Ghent). Thick and foamy, egg-white, fizzing, very moussy, lightly lacing head sustained by a 'tornado' of champagne-like sparkling fiercely rushing through a clear, warm and pure 'old gold'-coloured beer turning into a misty yellow gold with sediment - looks beautiful. Perfumey and unexpectedly sweet aroma of mandarin juice, exotic citrus (pomelo, even lime blossom), strong guava, pitaya, white bread, blossom-scented shower gel, dry straw, hint of raw potato underneath the perfume. Sweetish onset but not overly sugary or sticky, clean and sleek with notes of freshly cut apple, guava, prickly pear and mandarin, minerally side notes but more softly carbonated than expected based on looks, supple and slightly oily mouthfeel, slender; clean-edged cereally to lightly white-bready pale maltiness under this guava- and mandarin-like 'perfume', feeling a tad artificial and not quite reminiscent of actual sea buckthorn berries, before a mild floral hop bitter note brings the ride to an end. I recall sour ales made with real sea buckthorn and its astrigent, tart effects, but nothing of that is to be found here: surely this contains some or other aroma based on these berries, but I doubt if any actual berry ever touched the beer. Perfumed version of a standard pale lager (though I doubt if it is actually a lager in the technical sense of the word - rather a Belgian style blonde I suspect), which, if I would be really mean, can be said of awful things like Desperados and the like as well - and though something does feel a bit 'unnatural' here, the base is certainly more honest and solid than those abhorrent industrial mouthwashing products so I will not be too harsh on this novelty. I was just expecting more real sea buckthorn tartness, but got a kind of sweet guava-like drink instead... Odd and a bit of an artificially tinged one-trick pony, but not undrinkable, I am sure many sweet fruit beer lovers will be able to enjoy this.