Pale lager in the Lupulus brand, relatively new on the market - this brand is getting more and more commercial every day, I have the impression. Thick and frothy, cobweb-lacing, snow white, bit irregular and rather large-bubbled yet stable head on a slightly hazed (probably just chill haze in this case), straw blonde beer with warm deep golden tinge and whirls of sparkling rushing throughout. Aroma of fresh white bread dough, crushed dry cereals, chamomille, baking soda or even a touch of chalk, fresh young grass leaves, sweetclover, old bread crumbs somewhere, hint of hard unripe pear. Very crisp onset, sharp and very minerally carbonation, piercing through a very subtle unripe pear fruity touch but completely 'clean' and non-estery, directly tapping into a smooth, grainy maltiness, pure Pilsener malt sweetishness with a slender bready core, continuously refreshened by this minerally sparkling, evolving into a hoppy finish with a lingering, leafy bitterness and retronasal field-flowery and grassy accents. A simple but pure, noble hop bitterness rounding off a lightly bready all-malt character, with the whole remaining focused, crystal-clear and balanced: this is not a bad 'pils' indeed - it reminds me of some classic German Pilseners and in that sense caters for the slowly but unmistakably growing demand for more 'regional', smaller scale, pure and characterful alternatives for bland industrial pale lager - alternatives which are offered more and more throughout the country, often by simply returning to the history of the style and returning to purity, cleanness, noble hoppiness and all-maltiness. I have nothing against this trend even if Pilsener is not my favourite beer genre (not even my favourite Lager genre), so as I usually conclude in this kind of cases: take this from the shelf instead of Jupiler, Stella or Maes.

0.75 l bottle shared with prof. Bekić and PBF_pivica. Dark brown, small beige head. Dark cherry, dark caramel, metal, alcohol. Molasses, brown sugar, dried fruit. Quite complex. Hints of spices. The taste is metallic, tart, dry, roasted malts. Strong. Medium body. Abrupt finish.

It seems Lupulus (the former Trois Fourquets, originally a spin-off of Achouffe) has been very active lately, coming up with new beers both for the larger audiences (easygoing beers appearing on the supermarket shelves) and for the more craft-oriented consumer. This one, from a can (still not an obvious thing in Belgian brewing), belongs to the latter group, along with several other ‘experimental’ beers – note that the term ‘experimental’ is of course very relative here. Shared with Sylvan. Snow white, moussy, opening head on a clear golden blonde beer with ‘old gold’ tinge. Aroma of withering cut flowers and grass, damp straw, apple peel, stewing onion, overripe banana (peel), coriander seed, sweat, even something reminiscent of kale leaves that have had their prime. Sweetish onset, old apple peel and banana, finely tingling fizz, slick and slender body; cereally, white-bready maltiness under a grassy, zesty hop bitterness bringing some of the (apparently ‘cryo’, so frozen) Sabro to the foreground, but certainly not its full potential of exotic fruitiness: rather than the tangerine and coconut accents I associate with fresh Sabro, I get dank withering weeds and stale lime juice, mixed with this very Belgian, but in this case brutally irrelevant soapy coriander seed effect. Spicy hop bitter notes do linger in the finish. Quite hoppy alright and certainly drinkable (not mentioning an unexpected offering from Lupulus), but the Sabro needs more exposure and freshness.

Bottled. Hazy golden, mid sized head. Fruity nose with hay and dough. Sweet with medium to full body and rounded mouthfeel. Fruity and doughy, marzipan and sugar. Low bitterness.

Can from Rond Point, Malmedy. Fruity hoppy nose with hints of citrus. Rather yeasty, medium bitter.

Small to medium snowwhite head over veiled yellow beer. Convincingly "dry", herb nose, grassy, hay, suggesting hard EU hops. Dry, herb , faintly grassy with a dry, just-not-sweet pale malts underbuild. Quite well-balanced, satisfying. Green leavesm mild bitterness in the mouth. Light body, nowhere empty. Certain slickness, medium carbonation. Much better than average Pilsner. Thanks to Stef!

33 cl. can @ home, bought @ van Rooij, Culemborg.
Hazy yellow with a white head. Citrus aroma with some wheat sour note. Sweet taste with a low bitter finish with again a sour note. Quit thin bodied but a nice beer for a sunny afternoon.

05/VI/21 - 150cl (Magnum) bottle from Geers (Oostakker), shared @ home, BBE: 2022, L1-2019 (2021-447)

Little cloudy orange beer, small creamy irregular white head, little stable, adhesive, leaving a nice lacing in the glass. Aroma: oregano, herbal, tomato, pizza crackers, very weird. MF: lively carbon, medium body. Taste: very floral, herbal, bit soapy, somewhat weird, spicy, oregano, bit piny. Aftertaste: gentle bitterness, bit spicy, piny, bit resinous.

Can from Rond Point, Malmedy. Hazy yellow colour, white foam. Nose of tropical fruit, citrus, wheat. Taste is medium sweet, some tart hints, fruity, well balanced. Good!