Brouwerij Oud Beersel LinkeBeer

LinkeBeer

 

Brouwerij Oud Beersel in Beersel, Flemish Brabant, Belgium 🇧🇪

Brewed at/by: Brouwerij Anders!
  Belgian Style - Blonde / Pale / Amber Regular
Score
6.55
ABV: 5.8% IBU: - Ticks: 11
As you might have guessed from its name, LinkeBeer Golden Ale is golden, slightly coppery, with a lovely brightness. On the nose and palate, you’ll notice a malty flavour, with hints of hazelnut and toast. The aftertaste is full of finesse and complexity, with citrus fruit, tangerine and white flower aromas on the finish. This beer is smooth and well rounded, despite a fairly low alcohol content (5.8%). The bitterness is pronounced, but not exaggerated. Beautifully dry and terribly thirst-quenching.
 

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6
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6

Troebel amberkleurig bier met mooie stevige schuimkraag. Smaak is licht bitter hoppig en licht fruitig met wat brood en banaan. Standaard goed bier.

Tried from Bottle from De Caigny Dranken on 17 Oct 2025 at 12:28


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

Pours fairly dark, clear blonde. Medium large, soapy, fast fading white head. Scent is very BE yeastyness, banana esters, bready maltbase, touch of grassy hops. All pretty classic, smoothly executed but nothing surprising. Taste is full, mild bitterness, banana yeastyness, fairly sweet - but not too much so. High carbonation, medium to medium-thin body.

Tried on 07 Oct 2025 at 15:50

gave a cheers!

7.3
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7

On tap at Oud Beersel, pours a clear golden with a medium white head. Aroma has a nice bright, spicy Belgian yeast character, and soft doughy malt. Flavour is dry and spicy, with a bright, fairly complex yeast profile, and a crisp, dry biscuity malt base. Spicy, reasonably complex and highly quaffable.

Tried from Draft at Bierhuis Oud Beersel on 04 May 2025 at 18:19


7.4
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 7.5 | Flavor - 7.5 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7.5

On tap at Oud Beersel. Pours clear gold with a white head. Dry Belgian yeast on the nose. Flavour has dry Belgian yeast, some coriander, white pepper. Pretty good.

Tried from Draft at Bierhuis Oud Beersel on 04 May 2025 at 15:52


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Tried from Draft at Sickle on 26 Apr 2025 at 12:30


6.1
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

Clear amber beer with a white head. Aroma of rotten fruits, caramel. Taste of caramelized malt, nuts, mild spicy bitterness.

Tried on 15 Oct 2024 at 14:00


4.6
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 4.5 | Texture - 5 | Overall - 4.5

Trockener, wenig hefiger Beginn. Milde Herbe, trocken, geringe Aromatik, kurzer Abgang. 10/6/7/7//7

Tried from Draft on 11 Oct 2024 at 17:06


6.6
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

Clear dark blond colour with lasting head. Malty aroma with some floral hop. Similar taste. Also just a hint of spice. Subtle clove. Floral hop bitterness in the finish.

Tried on 14 Sep 2024 at 16:44


7.4
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7.5 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7.5

Blonde ale hopped with Mandarina Bavaria, brewed at Anders for Oud Beersel (one of my favourite lambic producers) - thanks to Gert Christiaens himself for the information. It may seem odd that a lambic producer comes up with an ale, but let us not forget that this phenomenon has a history, not in the least at Oud Beersel itself, which still has its Bersalis brewed at Huyghe. This new one forms a frothy, quite thick, irregularly edged, egg-white, stable, shred-lacing head and shows an initially clear, warm old golden robe with peachy tinge and a whirlwind of enthusiastic sparkling, turning misty later on. Aroma of lightly toasted white bread, dry cereals, unripe peaches in spring, old dried orange peel, wet cardboard, raw beetroot, drying grass, crumbling dry earth, raw cucumber peel, very vague sulfuric note faraway in the background. Spritzy onset due to high effervescence with notable minerally effects, a bit stingy even, covering up already subdued fruity notes of unripe peach, apple peel and courgette; low in sweetness, with supple body. Cereally and lightly toasted-bready malts, generally dry, quite crisp and grainy; slight rooty hop bitterness in the finish with hints of dried mugwort and straw, but also a very faint dried orange peel element, adding a bit to the overall 'fraîcheur'; light earthy and herbal notes join in too. Your typical present-day Belgian blonde but in a crisp, sleek, dry kind of way; I was hoping for more bright Mandarina Bavaria aromas (tangerine) which could really have lifted it up, though. In all, a rather unassuming, but correctly executed summery quencher, which I may even revisit if I come across it somewhere in an outdoors café. But contrary to Bersalis, which is intelligently used in lambic blends at least in some variants, I fail to see this beer's 'raison d'être' a bit, to be honest...

Tried on 19 Jul 2024 at 22:24


6.8
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6.5 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

Veiled orange beer, under a small if stable yellowish head. Sweet grains, dried herbs, straw, hot malts, toast, bit of caramel and faraway pine. Quite bitter onset, but very fast settling into a bit grainy, neutral flavour. Some bitterness returns in the finish, but way more demure. There's also a faint acidity as from the mashsouring. All flavours slightly powering up once a bit warmed up. Feels very carbonated, almost as sparkling water, way more than visible. Watery aftertaste, more flat; maybe medium bodied. I'm left searching a tad for all this 'quote' finesse and complexity 'unquote'. And finally I'm really at a loss about its exact place of manufacturing...

Tried from Bottle from Gastro-Beer on 01 Jul 2024 at 19:43