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The ILLEGAAL brewery brings together artists and brewers around a common project: creating the best beers possible in order to produce, support and share artistic projects.

The idea is not revolutionary but common sense: in Belgium, beer accompanies cultural events, vernissages, concerts, shows and various gatherings. Through beer, we want to share our Art and defend the social, political and philosophical values that unite our collective.
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3.8/10 — Appearance 6 Aroma 4 Flavor 3 Texture 4 Overall 3
Bottle from Sylvester Bar, pours a somewhat hazy golden orange with a small white head. Nose is full of tired, sweaty hops, earthiness, and cardboard. Flavour is pretty messed up, with tired, sweaty hops and cardboard. Some major things wrong here.
Tried from Bottle on 11 May 2024 at 03:14

7/10 — Appearance 7 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 7 Overall 7
33cl can chez Savage Restaurant, Ixelles.
Couleur acajou, pourpre, col léger rosâtre peu tenace.
Arôme est délicat misant sur l'apport des raisins plus que sur un caractère de Berliner, ce dernier restant très voire trop discret. Effluves de raisins - fruits rouges, cerises noires, mûres.
Palais est plaisant et léger, je ne retrouve pas trop le côté citrique d'une Berliner. Fruité des raisins apportent une fraicheur avec ce côté fruits rouges, le Chardonnay est aussi plutôt en retrait. Pointe tannique avec une petite note d'acidité en fin de bouche mais qui laisse tout de même une belle place aux raisins.
Tried from Can on 10 Mar 2024 at 10:12

7.4/10 — Appearance 7 Aroma 7.5 Flavor 7.5 Texture 7 Overall 7.5
Pours dark, chocolatty brown. Huge, off-white head. Scent is mildly chocolate, tad crispy underneath. Taste is farily bitter. Crunchy dark malts. Tad chocolaty. Very enoyable.
Tried on 10 Nov 2023 at 00:49

7.1/10 — Appearance 8 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 7.5
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.
Tried from Draft on 21 May 2023 at 18:16

6.2/10 — Appearance 6 Aroma 6 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 6
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!
Tried on 14 Sep 2022 at 11:37

6.6/10 — Appearance 6 Aroma 6 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 7.5
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.
Tried from Bottle on 25 Dec 2021 at 19:26

7/10
Tried from Bottle on 13 Sep 2021 at 18:49

6.8/10 — Appearance 7 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 7 Overall 6
@home poured into a shaker. Cloudy medium amber colour, tall moussy off-white head, dissipating slowly and irregular, thick layer remains, patchy lacing. Aroma sweet malt, peach, light caramel, orange, grass. Taste light to medium sweet and bitter, malty, peach, overripe apples. Medium body, oily texture, average carbonation, mild sweetbitter aftertaste, light orange pith, easy to drink, nice one.
Tried from Bottle on 24 Jun 2021 at 17:32

7/10 — Appearance 7 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 7 Overall 7
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.
Tried from Bottle on 22 Apr 2021 at 16:30

6.8/10 — Appearance 4 Aroma 8 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 7
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.
Tried from Bottle on 04 Jan 2021 at 00:13