Goozen (5582) reviewed Toverhekske from Brouwerij Walrave 1 year ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 5.5
Bottle 0,33ltr: Hazy amber coloured ale with a load af spices, but this isn’t a bad brew but you have to learn to drink this one. Need another try.
Bierkoning (17700) reviewed Pick Up Pils from Brouwerij Walrave 6 years ago
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Amazing that this brewery is still active. This pilsener is their only surviving product. Painted bottle, bought at the brewery. Hops and cellary aroma. Malty flavor, with some orange, plastic and even hops. No specific aftertaste. Thin. Disappointing after the fine aroma.
Bierkoning (17700) reviewed Toverhekske from Brouwerij Walrave 6 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 6
Bottle. Amber color. Spicy aroma with toffee and peach. Spicy fruity sweet flavor. Indeed mysterious spices, as the label says. Coreander, cardemom and ginger maybe. Decent beer from a very small brewery.
tderoeck (22946) reviewed Toverhekske from Brouwerij Walrave 10 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6.5
Imported from my RateBeer account as Walrave Toverhekske (by Brouwerij Walrave):
Aroma: 6/10, Appearance: 4/5, Taste: 6/10, Palate: 4/5, Overall: 13/20, MyTotalScore: 3.3/5
31/I/16 - 25cl bottle @ Cybu's place - BB: 1/IV/17 (2016-90) Thanks to Cybu for sharing the bottle!
Clear amber beer, creamy irregular off-white head, very stable, bit adhesive. Aroma: spicy touch, grains, hay, some orange peel, fruity, caramel. MF: soft carbon, medium body. Taste: sweet start, yeast, spicy touch, bit metallic. Aftertaste: malty, caramel, soft bitterness, bit spicy.
tderoeck (22946) reviewed Pick Up Pils from Brouwerij Walrave 10 years ago
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5
Imported from my RateBeer account as Walrave Pick Up Pils (by Brouwerij Walrave):
Aroma: 6/10, Appearance: 2/5, Taste: 6/10, Palate: 3/5, Overall: 11/20, MyTotalScore: 2.8/5
31/I/16 - 33cl bottle from the bar at the "brewery" @ Cybu's place - BB: n/a ("4 weeks after buying") (2016-88) Thanks to Cybu for sharing the bottle!
Clear pale yellow beer, aery fizzy off-white head, little stable, bit adhesive. Aroma: grains, hay, cow stable, bit sweet. MF: ok carbon, light to medium body. Taste: grains, pretty bitter touch, bit metallic. Aftertaste: hoppy, metallic, dry, slightly sweet touch.
Alengrin (11675) reviewed Toverhekske from Brouwerij Walrave 11 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 6
Laarne is a village with a witches’ folklore and apparently, after decades of silently, almost secretly brewing solely their old school Pick Up ’pils’, the local family brewery of Walrave decided it was about time to join in on the local folklore. This was the result, in 2006: a stereotypical ’spéciale belge’ style ale, with stable, regular, yellowish white head and copper, almost bronzish colour, clear. The aroma reveals pure nutty maltiness, subdued caramel, a lot of iron, some phenols, dried leaves, flowers, dried fruit, some peppery hops. Soft dry fruity taste, fresh, strong nutty and caramelly maltiness, clean with thinnish mouthfeel and a relatively long grassy and leafy hop bitterishness in the finish, which also appears a bit phenolic, even medicinal. Interesting, it seems as if the recent ’wave’ of beer attention in Belgium has awakened this sleeping brewery, prompting it to this shy attempt at joining the beer revolution. Needs more work, agreed, but the fact alone that Walrave created a new beer was enough to get me on a trip to Laarne to find it.
Alengrin (11675) reviewed Pick Up Pils from Brouwerij Walrave 11 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5
Equally regional as old school unpasteurized ’pils’ with limited shelf life, only for sale in Laarne, the village where it is made, by an old family brewery of (extremely) low profile which hardly brews anything else... Firm, snow white, stable head, deep golden blond colour, clear. Aroma of pure pale malts, white bread, grassy hops, young cheese, some iron. Fresh and soft malty taste, neutral to lightly sweetish, bit breadish, sourish touch (probably the yeast which is still there) and delicate grassy hop bitterness in the finish. I consider this among the best of its genre in Belgium, but the genre is still standard pale lager, of course. Tasted from tap but also tasted in its equally old-fashioned form of Pick-Up Export, which is the same thing in 33 cl bottles.
jhaase (14941) reviewed Toverhekske from Brouwerij Walrave 13 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Bottle. Pours red amber, lowish head. Light resiny fruit aroma. Dry body, light metallic on the palate. Light berrylike notes, demera sugar, fairly lightfooted. Quick finish.
pivnizub (12822) reviewed Toverhekske from Brouwerij Walrave 14 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5
Bottle: Amber, smaller off-white foamy layer, malty-sugary nose, metallic traces and some coriander-like spices detectable; sweetish-bitter flavour, almost medium bodied; sweetish-sugary - with a light acidity - finish, some fruits and coriander detectable. Not unpleasant…
MoritzF (10567) reviewed Pick Up Pils from Brouwerij Walrave 14 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5
(bottle, 25cl) Slightly hazy, pale golden colour with a blond and short foamy head. Slightly sour pale malty aroma with citric and sweaty hops. Mildly bitter and slightly sour flavour, light to medium bodied with a pleasantly matured carbonation. Slightly grainy and sour doughy pale malt-character; slightly bitter and doughy finish with herbal and slightly woody accents. Interesting Pils from a brave little brewery. 01.XI.11