Description
Aurélien Fontaine, passionné par le milieu brassicole depuis une décennie a décidé de lancer ses propres bières à l’âge de 28 ans. C’est de cette manière que la Léa blonde est vendue pour la première fois en décembre 2019, la Léa triple elle est arrivée un an plus tard en décembre 2020. Une troisième Léa verra le jour courant de l’été 2021. La Brasserie de la Hantes ne dispose pas encore de ses propres installations, l’ambition de les construire pour 2021 été bien réelle mais vu la crise sanitaire ce projet de construction de brasserie va devoir être postposé. Les Léa sont brassées actuellement par Loic Regulski à la Brasserie de la Couronne à Leval Trahegnies.
5.5/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 4
Overall 5
One of two beers (the other being a tripel) that were created by hobby brewer Aurélien Fontaine in late 2019; though he poses as a brewery (Brasserie de la Hantes), at least he is honest about the fact that his two Léa beers are brewed at Couronne in Leval-Trahegnies, a village south of La Louvière. This blonde Léa was eager to get out of the bottle apparently: even with careful opening, it gushed so intensely that I could not avoid losing about 1/3 of the content. The leftover formed a typical 'gusher head', very thick and foamy at first but coarse and large-bubbled, quickly collapsing, off-white, lacing in a thick membrane over a cloudy peach blonde robe with murky-beige hue. Aroma of ripe peach, clove, soggy sandwiches, wet grass, spoiled potato mash, baker's yeast, old apple peel, wet clay. Sweetish, estery onset, banana, peach and pear, softish in carbonation (most of it escaped explosively during the gushing); soft bready and cereally malt bed with lots of bready yeastiness, tasting rather 'empty' and neutral. Minerally notes in the end along with a mild floral hoppiness and an overload of spicy phenols. The gushing was about the most exciting aspect here - the content is boring to the bone. Low in flavour, simplistic, yeasty, underhopped - this feels like it was brewed in some amateur's kitchen, I am sorry to say. Clearly needs work - or perhaps another executive brewery...
Tried
from Bottle
on 07 Jul 2021
at 14:25