Freundeslager
Brasserie de la Senne in Brussels, Brussels Capital Region, Belgium 🇧🇪
Collab with: Birrificio Italiano / Private Landbrauerei SchönramLager Special
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Score
7.63
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FREUNDESLAGER is the result of a collaboration with two very good friends, true legends in brewing bottom-fermented beers: Eric Toft, from Schönramer Brauerei in Bavaria, and Agostino Arioli, from Birrificio Italiano - the inventor of the Italian Pils!
Freundeslager has a beautiful, slightly cloudy orange color. The smell is typical of a lager, but clearly fruitier. It has a very malty and biscuity taste, which is very tasty. At the same time it also has floral and fruity aromas that are reminiscent of peaches, oranges and gooseberries. These flavors are made present by a clever mix of Belgian and German hops. It has a great body and complexity for a light beer, and it is well balanced by a fine bitterness. The alcohol content is 4%.
Freundeslager has a beautiful, slightly cloudy orange color. The smell is typical of a lager, but clearly fruitier. It has a very malty and biscuity taste, which is very tasty. At the same time it also has floral and fruity aromas that are reminiscent of peaches, oranges and gooseberries. These flavors are made present by a clever mix of Belgian and German hops. It has a great body and complexity for a light beer, and it is well balanced by a fine bitterness. The alcohol content is 4%.
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7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7.5
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Hazy yellow colour with large white head.Aroma is crispy fresh of hops and yeast nice malty and bready with flavour of biscuits really lively mouth feels and smooth finish.
Tried
from Bottle
on 15 Nov 2025
at 10:40
8.3/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8.5
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
330 ml bottled 14 Apr 25. Golden body, with a big, fluffy head.
Aroma of grains, hay, fresh herbs, flowers, cereals, citrus. Tastes similar, with some more fruit notes.
Medium mouthfeel, with a lively carbonation. Finishes crisp, dry, citric, floral, grassy, piney, herbal, cerealic.
Very tasy, super crip Lager! Lots of character, with both rustic notes and more modern hop notes. Drinks extremely easy and balanced, I could drink this all day!
Aroma of grains, hay, fresh herbs, flowers, cereals, citrus. Tastes similar, with some more fruit notes.
Medium mouthfeel, with a lively carbonation. Finishes crisp, dry, citric, floral, grassy, piney, herbal, cerealic.
Very tasy, super crip Lager! Lots of character, with both rustic notes and more modern hop notes. Drinks extremely easy and balanced, I could drink this all day!
Tried
from Bottle
from
Etre Gourmet (La Cave à Bières - physical bottle shop)
on 27 Oct 2025
at 20:10
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
26/IX/25 - 33cl bottle from Geers (Oostakker), shared @ my Brewfist Italian night (home), BB: 14/I/26, bottled: 14/IV/25 (2025-942)
Clear dark blond beer, huge creamy off-white head, very stable, adhesive, leaving a nice lacing in the glass. Aroma: very nice, floral notes, a little herbal, some citrus, a bit grassy, refreshing, some white grapes, nice! MF: ok carbon, medium body. Taste: very nice, floral, fruity touch, herbal, nice bitterness, very nice, hoppy. Aftertaste: grassy, hoppy, good bitterness, floral, a bit fruity, pears, some melons, elder flowers, nice, very pleasant, dry finish, a little soapy in the end, good lager!
Clear dark blond beer, huge creamy off-white head, very stable, adhesive, leaving a nice lacing in the glass. Aroma: very nice, floral notes, a little herbal, some citrus, a bit grassy, refreshing, some white grapes, nice! MF: ok carbon, medium body. Taste: very nice, floral, fruity touch, herbal, nice bitterness, very nice, hoppy. Aftertaste: grassy, hoppy, good bitterness, floral, a bit fruity, pears, some melons, elder flowers, nice, very pleasant, dry finish, a little soapy in the end, good lager!
Tried
from Bottle
from
Dranken Geers
on 26 Sep 2025
at 20:00
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Bouteille 33cl de et partagée avec Tderoeck @ Tim's Brewfist Italian night.
Bottled 14/04/2025, BB 14/01/2026. Toujours intéressant de voir un essai de pils par DLS, de surcroit quand cela est une collab avec les fondateurs de la pils italienne - Tipopils.
Dorée, col épais crémeux blanc.
Arôme garde de fins effluves classiques de DLS - avec un cette levure qui garde son petit côté suret - le tout repris en support par un malté pils et un houblonnage délicat que je trouve assez floral.
Palais reste également sur une approche DLS - le tout est très léger, avec buvalité optimale, le tout supporté par un agréable caractère houblonné - floral et fruité rappelant des notes agrumes et fruits à noyaux mais laissant de tout même la part belle à une approche cérales pils marquée.
Bottled 14/04/2025, BB 14/01/2026. Toujours intéressant de voir un essai de pils par DLS, de surcroit quand cela est une collab avec les fondateurs de la pils italienne - Tipopils.
Dorée, col épais crémeux blanc.
Arôme garde de fins effluves classiques de DLS - avec un cette levure qui garde son petit côté suret - le tout repris en support par un malté pils et un houblonnage délicat que je trouve assez floral.
Palais reste également sur une approche DLS - le tout est très léger, avec buvalité optimale, le tout supporté par un agréable caractère houblonné - floral et fruité rappelant des notes agrumes et fruits à noyaux mais laissant de tout même la part belle à une approche cérales pils marquée.
Tried
from Bottle
on 26 Sep 2025
at 11:11
8.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8.5
Flavor 8.5
Texture 9
Overall 8.5
Rich biscuity character, crunchy cereal grains, modest floral hops, subtle bitterness straw, nip of lemon rind and grass. Great depth and super drinkable.
Tried
from Bottle
at
Beer Merchants Tap
on 19 Jul 2025
at 20:30
6.5/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 6.5
Flavor 6.5
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
0,33l bottle at tasting at home. Bottled 14. April 2025. Yellow cloudy color, small white head. Smells fruity, tobacco, light caramel, light corn notes. Decent to nice smell. full body, soft carbonation. Tastes fruity, leathery, spices, peppery, tobacco, light herbs, light corn notes. Finishes light to medium medium with notes of tobacco, pepper and leathery notes. Pretty good one, on the bitter/leathery notes side. more saisonish than any kind of lager
7, 6.5, 6.5, 6, 6.5
7, 6.5, 6.5, 6, 6.5
Tried
from Bottle
on 29 Jun 2025
at 14:36
8/10
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Appearance 9
Aroma 7.5
Flavor 7.5
Texture 10
Overall 7.5
Bottle from House Of Trembling Madness. Hazy golden body with a thick white head that holds well. Steady carbonation. Faint lacing. Aroma of freshly cut grass and marzipan. Flavour of steel and grassy hops. Medium body with a creamy mouthfeel. Soft fizz. A crisp, grassy lager with a very good body and mouthfeel for the ABV.
Tried
from Bottle
at
House Of The Trembling Madness (Lendal)
on 21 Jun 2025
at 18:09
7.5/10
Nice hoppy lager
Tried
from Bottle
on 15 Jun 2025
at 09:34
7.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7.5
Flavor 7
Texture 9
Overall 8.5
Bottle at home. Almost clear deep golden with big fluffy lasting white head. Crisp pilsalts, lots of fresh baked baguette, soft caramel. Then a bit of spruce, grapefruit, grassy, peach. Crisp and fruity hops with a sticky resinous undercurrent. Medium sweet and bitter. Full bodied with pillowy carbonation. Yum!
Tried
from Bottle
from Etre Gourmet (webshop)
on 12 Jun 2025
at 18:50
7.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7
Bottle in the garden with Barbecue, 25th May 25. Pours clear. Aroma is straw and light aromatic. Taste is mellow, fresh grass, bitter and very drinkable
Tried
from Bottle
on 07 Jun 2025
at 12:55