13 ∆ (Delta) Craft Pilsner ( ... - 2020)
Dok Brewing Company in Ghent, East Flanders, Belgium 🇧🇪
Brewed at/by: Belgo Sapiens BrewersLager - Pilsener Regular Out of Production
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6.62
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The "Delta" is a special release of the 13 Pilsener, with quite a lower abv and changed recipe, but still based on the original recipe.
Has been brewed by The ministry of Belgian Beer themselves, on the equipment of Belgoo Sapiens, but has also been contract brewed at De Proefbrouwerij for some batches.
This beer was discontinued in favor of the 13∆ Craft Lager ( made with US hops) which was later discontinued in favor of a version closer to this original, made at and by DOK.
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Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Pale blond colour with lasting fluffy head. Aroma and flavour are typical of a Pilsener except for the added bitterness and citrusy element.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Sampled @ Zythos Bier Festival 2017. Trübes goldgelbes Bier. Geruch ist grasig trocken hopfig. Geschmack ist trocken grasig hopfig, trocken, Heu.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Hefiger Beginn. Mild hefige Noten. Geringe Bitterkeit, milde Würzigkeit, leichte Herbe. Okay. 10/9/8/9//9
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 9
From tap at many occasions at Beerlovers bar. We seem to get a mix between this version and the Original. The difference couldn’t be more big though ! The scent is much and much more aromatic. Taste is full on hoppy, aromatic, but not like an IPL, which is in my opinion , to far from a lager to really compared. This really keeps it’s base in respect the Balance is unseen in pilsners i’ve had so far . I really, really like this lager. I never expected to rate a lager so highly .
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
[330 ml. can @ Beerlovers Bar] Hazy orange, few white bubbles. Nose is green grass, sulfur, grains, raw hops, hop profile is akin to an industrial pilsner but turned up to 11 with an actual malt base. Body is lightly yeasty, low sugar, mineral, iron, faint vegetable, big green grass, vegetable hops, lightly cheesy, cheesy malt base. Interesting , needed to get a bit into it at first. Craft industrial pilsner? At least taste-wise this is what I am getting, actual good ingredients but still that profile but some actual hop & malt base. Bit too heavy on green vegetables & iron etc. for me but I dug it largely.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
The Ministry of Belgian Beer successfully launched its 13 Pilsener onto the Ghent market but apparently now makes this slightly altered, lighter version in cans as well, brewed and canned at Belgo Sapiens, the first Belgian brewery to specialize in ’craft beer cans’ which - ever since Oskar Blues came up with the idea - have become omnipresent in the modern Anglo-Saxon craft beer world, but are still relatively rare in continental Europe. I had this beer straight from a can after the Gents Bierfestival in August but did not realize it was a different brew, so thanks to tderoeck for offering me this second can in exchange for something local - thus offering me the chance to properly rate it. Contrary to the can I had in August - and to all of Belgo Sapiens’ own cans I had so far - this one did not gush... Medium thick, snow white, moussy head slowly dissolving in the middle but retaining very well on the edge, leaving behind a web of ’papery’ lacing around the glass; sunny yellow blonde robe with somewhat greenish hue, lightly hazy with visible sparkling - distinguishing it from the vast array of standardized, industrial pale lagers. Aroma of sweaty grains, soggy chicken corn, moldy white bread, grass and in fact wet grain husks, minerals, withering garden weeds, sourdough, rainwater, white bread crumbs, green apple peel, vague accents of sorrel, parsley, green olive, wet paper and popcorn. Crisp, minerally and (lager-like) neutral onset, grainy with a corn-like slickness to it, smooth body, seemingly a tad ’fuller’ than your average macro lager, with a more pleasantly bready malt touch in the middle. Fruitiness is practically limited to a neutral, vague malt fruitiness, yet some faint hints of apple and gooseberry adorn the overall graininess. Develops quite some hop bitterness in the end, ’greenish’ and peppery, very leafy, drying and laying a spicy bittering coating on the back of the mouth and throat, much more so than in any standard pale lager - even more so than in many well-known northern German Pilseners, to which this beer comes very close in style, if it were filtered and pasteurized, that is. Reminds me a bit of old school Belgian ’regional’ Pilseners too, from a bygone era when these were made by local family brewers and left unpasteurized, with a very limited preservability as a result - a type of lager that has gone all but extinct, living fossils like Walrave’s Pick-Up (if this still exists today), Vera Pils or Dupont’s Rédor Pils aside. A Pilsener worthy of this ’title’ - which is all too often abused in the Dutch ’sprachraum’ for any pale lager in general - and certainly of a higher quality level than most other bottom-fermented Belgian beers, though admittedly this does not mean a whole lot. I do, however, find this a bit too ’compromized’ in the grain bill department (text on the can literally says "contains barley malt", which says enough) and would recommend the original bottled - unfiltered, so black label - "13" over this lighter, cleaner and somewhat more ’corny’ version.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
Imported from my RateBeer account as 13 ∆ (Delta) Craft Pilsner (by The Ministry Of Belgian Beer):
Aroma: 7/10, Appearance: 4/5, Taste: 8/10, Palate: 3/5, Overall: 16/20, MyTotalScore: 3.8/5
4/X/16 - 33cl can from the brewer @ home, BB: 27/VI/17 (2016-1211) Thanks to Dimi for the cans!
Clear pale blond beer, creamy irregular white head, pretty stable, bit adhesive. Aroma: very malty, grains, bit sweet, hint of caramel, some almonds/marzipan. MF: ok carbon, medium to almost full body, very surprising for a pilsener. Taste: malty start, pretty bitter, slightly sweet touch, some citrus notes, grassy. Aftertaste: very bitter, some grains, hoppy, grassy, some citrus, malty, almost sweet caramel touch, dry and bitter finish. Well done, guys!