Adler Dort
Haacht in Boortmeerbeek, Flemish Brabant, Belgium 🇧🇪
Lager - Dortmunder Regular|
Score
6.23
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Alengrin (11609) reviewed Adler Dort from Haacht 11 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5
Tasted in 2006 in the then-Dortmunder version of the brand, in existence since 1955 when Dortmunders became popular in Belgium and one of the last examples of the style around when I tasted it - but meanwhile apparently replaced by a simple premium lager called Adler Premium Luxus. This original version was a tad darker than your average pale lager and notably stronger; it had a deep golden colour, thick and stable snow white head and a malt sweet profile, along with the same dull corn sweetishness you’ll find in many a standard lager. Pale malt sweet taste, corn obvious, slick with somewhat more body than a ’pilsje’, minerally, with very low hop bitterness in the finish (as is / was custom for the style). In itself, this was nothing to get excited about, but I have to admit it had a certain flair for being the last of its style in Belgium so I do regret the fact that it has been replaced by just another bland ’pilsener’ derivative meanwhile. Fortunately we still have Leroy’s Sasbraü, which has always been one of the best bottom-fermented Belgians (not that this means a lot), or has this been discontinued in the meantime too?
fonefan (84534) reviewed Adler Dort from Haacht 17 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Draught @ You´ll Never Walk Alone, Kolding, Denmark. Clear medium yellow color with a average, frothy, good lacing, mostly lasting, white head. Aroma is moderate malty, toasted, fruit, clammy - dank, toffee. Flavor is moderate sweet and light bitter with a average duration. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft. (250408)
Sloefmans (15389) reviewed Adler Dort from Haacht 22 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5
(Last of a once popular style in Belgium) Gold-yellow; huge, dense white head. Very grainy nose, like freshly ground barley, and coffee-cream. Again this coffee-cream aroma + grain/pale malt in the taste. Sweet, but not exaggerately so. Creamy, sweet-grain finish, very strangly with the mouthfeel, which is light, spritzy, mineral-water-like. Different from Pilsener indeed. The difference is the positive thing - but to say this would be great...