Brasserie Valduc

Contract Brewer in Thorembais-Saint-Trond, Walloon Brabant, Belgium 🇧🇪

Established in 2017

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Rue du Ponceau 38, Thorembais-Saint-Trond, 1360, Belgium
Description
La brasserie Valduc-Thor est le fruit d'une passion de deux brasseurs qui s'inscrit dans une logique de circuit court, de technologie en énergie verte et de respect des traditions et des valeurs brassicoles.

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6.4/10 Appearance 7 Aroma 6.5 Flavor 6 Texture 6 Overall 6.5
Bottle at home. Yellow color, full sized white head, a bit creamy.
Aroma and flavor are malts, light spice notes, a light banana-ish hint, light bubblegum. Firm carbonation, decent body. Mwah okay.
Tried on 31 Aug 2021 at 20:04

5.5/10
Tried from Bottle on 08 Mar 2021 at 23:32

9/10
@ 2018
Tried at Zythos Bierfestival on 19 Dec 2020 at 20:17

7/10
@ 2018
Tried at Zythos Bierfestival on 19 Dec 2020 at 20:09

6/10
@ 2018
Tried at Zythos Bierfestival on 19 Dec 2020 at 20:08

6/10
@ 2018
Tried at Zythos Bierfestival on 19 Dec 2020 at 20:07

8/10 Appearance 10 Aroma 8 Flavor 8 Texture 6 Overall 8
23/VIII/20 - 33cl bottle from a trade, shared @ holidays (France), BB: 26/IX/21 (2020-816) Thanks to Wim VL for the trade!

Clear dark brown to black beer, big dense beige head, stable, adhesive, leaving a nice lacing in the glass. Aroma: nice roast, some swimming pool, milk chocolate, coffee. MF: ok carbon, medium body. Taste: soft sweetness, good roast, pretty bitter, grains, malty, hay, cow fodder. Aftertaste: grains, sweet touch, caramel notes, hoppy, bit resinous, good bitter roast, sort of a black IPA, this concept!
Tried on 23 Aug 2020 at 15:00

6.4/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 6 Texture 6 Overall 6.5
1/VIII/20 - 33cl bottle from Au Village Gourmand (Dinant), shared @ my parents’ place, BB: 6/II/22 (2020-705)

Pretty clear yellowish beer, small creamy off-white head, unstable, falls down quickly, bit adhesive. Aroma: very fruity, some citrus, ripe banana, bit spicy, oxidized, malty, some almonds. MF: lively carbon, medium to light body. Taste: oxidized, bit sourish, almond cookies, soft bitterness, sweet notes, ripe banana, malty. Aftertaste: grains, slightly sourish, bit lemony, soft bitterness, bit grassy, some coriander, more almonds, oxidized, bit spicy.
Tried from Bottle from Au Village Gourmand on 01 Aug 2020 at 19:00

7.4/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 8 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 7.5
(bottle) hazy, bright orange amber colour with a small white head; aroma of smoke, peat; assertive, balanced flavour with a long, light bitter finish
Tried from Bottle on 19 Dec 2019 at 23:34

5.8/10 Appearance 4 Aroma 6 Flavor 7 Texture 4 Overall 6
One of several Fée beers by Valduc, longneck bottle with synthetic sticker depicting a fairy that is half male and half female apparently, generally looking modern (if a bit kitschy) but weirdly failing to show a formal ingredients list... Opens with a lot of pressure (and a sharp hissing sound), followed by slow gushing, but perfectly manageable if you keep an eye on it. Loose-bubbled, irregular, shred-lacing, coarse, off-white, quickly opening head (the structure of a typical 'gusher head' if you see what I mean), misty golden blonde with near-pinkish-tinged apricot hue but turning into an ugly, muddy, opaque ochre with sediment. Lightly herbal yet otherwise rather neutral aroma of freshly cut green apples, white bread, dried kitchen herbs (thyme, perhaps), grass, old crumbled cookies, green pear, hints of ground pistachio nuts, melting plastic, strong 4-vinyl-guaiacol (spicy and even slightly 'chemical' phenols), echo of lemon-scented handsoap. Fizzy, crisp onset, fruity in a rather subdued and 'pale green' kind of way, unripe banana, green pear, freshly cut apple, sweetish with a slight sourish edge, very minerally, stingy carbonation, slick cereally and lightly bready malt sweetish middle with a soapy and grainy note (spelt?), minerally and 'green-fruity' notes follow, floral hop bitter finish but gently so with those weird and strong, spicy and somewhat 'medicinal' phenolic effect returning retronasally. Rubbery, grassy and herbal accents trail behind. Weird little beer, intended to please both men and women apparently - which in itself is kind of sexist if you ask me - but it hardly pleases me in any case; much too phenolic, in a not very flattering way, and overcarbonated. Apart from that, departing from a rather uninspired premise as well... Not impressed at all, but still drinkable enough.
Tried from Bottle on 20 Sep 2019 at 22:06