On tap at Le Lac (gig venue for black metal night in Brussels feat. Gevurah, Serpent Noir and LVTHN), pours a clear golden with a small white head. Aroma brings out a dusty, earthy hop character, Belgian yeast, bit of grittiness, and floral notes. Flavour is bright and spicy, with lots of bitter floral hops, spicy Belgian yeast, some gritty yeast, and a dry, bitter finish. Not as refined as, say, XX or XXX Bitter, but surprisingly well-made and well-hopped. Good stuff.

Draught, half pint. @Moeder Lambic Fontainas, 03/09/2022 [#5.334 Global - #174 Belgium - #1 Brasserie ILLegaaL (My Belgian brewery #71)] Pours pale golden with a white head. Aroma: subtle floral, cereals, straw and soft caramel. Weak aroma. Taste: cereal, pale malts, soft honey and floral hops. Easy drinking. Next one please!

33cl bottle from a trade with JefVerstraete, thanks! A clear amber beer with a off-white head. Aroma of resinous hops, pine, citrus and caramel. Taste of resinous bitter hops, oranges, tangerine, grapefruit, caramel. Long bitter finish.

Bouteille 33cl. Étiquette à la BodyCount - légèrement passable.
Dorée, blanc crémeux.
Arôme est sur un nez fin malté plus sur un léger caramel rappelant d'une APA. Petite pointe de fruits à noyaux avec un soupçon fleuri fleur orange-sureau.
Palais est plaisant style IPA belge avec une approche entre DLS et DeRanke. Houblonné amer, finement fruité avec un léger côté agrumes. Sécheresse du grain en retrait. --- Beer aliased from original tick of Circus IPA on 12 Mar 2025 at 13:30 - Score: Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7.5 | Flavor - 7.5 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7.5. Original review text: Draft @ Café Circus. Il semblerait que cette IPA soit un alias de l'Illegaal classique ...
Léger pâle, dorée, col fin crémeux blanc tenace.
Arôme est frais, bien houblonné de suite sur un bouquet délicat fruité tropical, résine avec un côté d'orange givrée en rétro-nasal. Bien parfumée pour une IPA classique qui ne cherche pas à surfer sur le hazy.
Palais est sur une belle base houblonnée - classique mais tirant sur une inspiration côté ouest américaine - je note pas mal de résineux, fruits à noyaux, abricot et pointe de mangue tout en ayant une finalité herbacée et florale rappelant la camomille.

The summer beer in this Illegaal series, issued by a namesake non-profit organisation in Brussels using beer to unite and support young artists making their way in the world of street art, music and so on; they have these beers brewed at Jandrain-Jandrenouille to original recipes and that includes this Khop Killer. Bottle bought online, lot number 728-200227 apparently, brewed in February of this year. Medium sized, egg-white, bit irregular and uneven-bubbled head showing gaps but otherwise quite well-retaining, over a hazy straw blonde beer with ochre-ish tinge. Aroma of lime blossoms, lemon grass, some lemon candy even, dry bread crust, old rusk, jute bags, dry straw, angelica flowers, stale apple juice, something vaguely urine-like, dry white pepper, pineapple, minerals. Spritzy onset, lots of fizzy carbonation but not in a harshly stinging way, very minerally still, rushing through fruity aspects of pineapple, banana peel, green apple and unripe peach - yet remaining very low in sweetness; this dry profile continues in the middle, when a slick, bread crumb- and even old potato-like maltiness develops, under growing spiciness from hops and some phenols; lots of yeasty breadiness in the end (powdery) but also a firm, rooty hop bitterness, quinine- and grapefruit peel-ish, bringing slight tropical-flowery and citric-zesty aspects retronasally which I imagine must have been a lot more bright when the beer was still young. More characterful than I was expecting, but clearly it has not kept very well even if I am still drinking it before its best before date: the yeast turned into a powdery, almost starchy 'bread crumb' effect and the hops must have lost most of their glow. Still very drinkable though, if you consider it to be a blonde bitter or even a saison of sorts, rather than an hazy IPA by which it seems vaguely influenced.

The fourth beer already in this IllegaaL project, dedicated to promoting artistic projects (so not focused on producing beer as such, making it a doubtful case as a 'bierfirma'); a mysterious one, but the friendly guys behind it were open enough to reveal that it is brewed at Jandrain-Jandrenouille. The label does not reveal anything either - simply because this beer is filled in cans without any label; the only print I can find, is a serial number somewhere near the bottom and the best before date on the bottom of the can. I wonder how 'official' this is - there are some, though not nearly enough, pieces of information a brewery is obliged to mention on the package and none of that is to be found here... Anyway: medium thick, off-white, irregularly but tightly lacing, slowly opening head over a crystal clear, warm and pure golden beer with 'old gold' tinge. Aroma of flour, chewing gum, dust, bread crumbs, sweetcorn, hints of unripe banana, a sweet aspect of industrial apple juice, ripe pear or even honey cookies (weirdly), wet granite rocks, polyester, touch damp earth. Neutral onset, minerally with refinedly stinging carbonation, more rounded pale maltiness further on in a simple, sweetish-grainy, thinnish, slick way, raw barley almost with a softer white-bready touch to it; slight 'powdery' effect in the end, bread crumbs and sawdust, but remaining fairly neutral and bland, even if a gentle floral hop bitterness does develop in the finish. A minerally, almost metallic aspect lingers, along with this subduedly sweetish graininess, but otherwise not much happens. Almost feels like a supermarket lager of the 'premium' echelon, which was probably the intention; honest, but clean, very straightforward and simplistic, mimicking the macro brands, even if for more 'ethical' reasons I would recommend this one instead.

10/04/2019 @home - 33cl bottle from Le Comptoir Belge. Amber coloured, medium white head. Nose is grainy, yeast. Taste is quite raw grains, raw hops, bit yeast, seems unfinished.