6.5

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

33cl Bottle shared with a friend. Thin white head. Hazy lemony pour. Nice bitterness. Decent.

6.1

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

Pale yellow with lasting fluffy head. Aroma has a touch of yeastiness to it. Flavour also has yeast and a perhaps the beginning of some tang and funk aided by the quite aggressive carbonation.

Speciale smaak van bittere pils en een zwaarder bier. Niet wauw!

6.3

Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

Bottle @ home. Slightly hazy pale yellow color, medium to full sized white head that diminishes quite quickly. Smell and taste malts, lightly hops, lightly hayish, decently bitter. Decent body and carbonation. Tastes like a slightly hoppy pilsener to me. Nice refreshing, but one is enough.

4.8

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 4

Very light grassy yellow, lots of lager bubbles big bubbly head and lacing fading slowly. Super yeasty with some juicier hops on the nose. it smells pretty darn good.Crisp up front, bits of orange and other citrus, some peach and watermelon, maybe honey..ultimately, a fairly boring beer though.

5.5

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

Blond lager developped by Jean-Marie Rock in England and since this year available on the Belgian market as well (I bought this at a Delhaize supermarket); still made in England, but rumour has it that production is to be moved to Bouillon (Belgium). Clearly has nothing to do with the immortal Orval, which was the first beer that sprung to mind when I read the name on the label. Pours a clear, pale yellow blonde, same as a standard lager, with fierce sparkling and initially a big, snow white, coarse and loosely structured head which quickly collapses and breaks - to eventually disappear completely. Adding the deposit creates a hazy, deeper yellowish look. Sharpish aroma of green, sour apples, pansies, lemon zest, dust, white bread, dry white wine, some vaguely soapy hops, sweat, damp cloth, freshly cut grass, gooseberries, straw, a luckily very vague hint of dissolvent or plastic and even something very, very faintly ammonia-like. Tastes of Granny Smith apples initially, very light fruity malt sweetness but a certain acidity as well, sourish and minerally, quite sharp carbonation tingling on the tongue at first but much flatter in the end (as if the carbon dioxide fades away in seconds - see the collapse of the head too), light and edged mouthfeel, pale malt sweetishness in a restrained kind of way, a bit more bready towards the finish, with the initial acidity remaining, and grassy and somewhat flowery hops showing up, bittering and drying; I also get a slight unpleasant phenolic touch and a faint impression of alcohol. Hard to classify: it almost smells a bit Duvel-ish, but in a kind of lager and lower ABV version; if this should be ranked as a Kellerbier as is the case here, it is certainly a strong and very atypical one (I’d personally put it under Euro strong pale lager, rather than a ’noble’ style like Kellerbier, but in that case too it would be an atypical example...). Whatever it is, I had preferred mister Rock to have remained Orval’s brewmaster, frankly.

4

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 2

Bottle at home, light yellow color with a huge head and very fizzy, once the head has gone the fizzyness is gone... very flat beer with a weird smell and weird taste that i cant place... horrible

7.3

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 9

Bottle thnx to Stefaan Pours clear blonde, huge white head . Smell is perfumy , herbal , potpourri . Taste is bitter, bit sweet. Very malty / grainy . Long lasting finish ( bitter and malts ) Very nice

7.3

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

Good, dense snowwhite head over clear pale metallic golden beer. Dry, hoppy nose but also dry grains. Spicy, quite grassy smell. Ultra-dry, hoppy and grassy flavour. Yeast-intoned despite the bottom-sticking yeast. Finish is a bit empty, but in the aftertaste, the fine hoppy bitterness keeps lingering on. Light body, very faintly slick. Lightly carbonated but certainly not flat. Even the Orval chalice I used cannot keep up appearances. This isn’t Orval - but then, whàt is it? I do not know what Monsieur Jean-Marie had in mind, but to me this is a Kölsch with a triple dose of noble hops. Me gusto.