Brasserie De La Senne is known for producing lower ABV (at least for a Belgian brewery), with a tendancy to use a good dose of old school hops. And this beer fits that description to a tee.
Described by the brewery as a craft lager, it is unfiltered and unpasteurised, meaning it is slightly hazy (it’s not a NEIPA - settle down all you hazy bois!) and very tasty.
This was a style brewer Yvan De Baets was longing to brew for quite some time, but it was only after the brewery expansion that he finally realised that aim. He describes this beer as the hardest to brew, given any imperfection will stand out in the taste. As he says, ‘the beer is totally naked!’
He needn’t have worried, as this beer is delicious. Stylistically, it is an old style unfiltered Pilsner, using noble hops from Germany. A nice grainy malt body with some early sweetness, somewhat grassy and herbal with a little more bitterness than maybe is traditional, but we’d expect that from De La Senne. And it adds to the drinkability.
A classic (northern) German Pilsner with two varieties of Hallertauer hops
A delicate pilsner, with the subtle addition of dry-hopping
A classic Pilsener, paying tribute to 'the father of pils'
The 2014 vintage of De La Senne's commemorative brew - a ripper Belgian Pale Ale
De La Senne's once-a-year birthday celebratory pale ale, this time using an experimental hop from Slovenia
A Black IPA from Brasserie De La Senne - lots of roasted malts and earthy hop flavours
A Belgian ale 100% fermented with a Brussels Brettanomyces yeast, conditioned for 4 months in the bottle before release
A dry-hopped Strong Golden Ale from De La Sense
This is a mixed fermentation ale aged in oak barrels for one year
This beer is known as the most bitter Tripel style beer in all of Belgium!
A collaborative Saison featuring rye, spelt and wheat malts, dry-hopped with a Ukranian hop called Zachrava
The first beer in the trilogy of collaborations to celebrate 20 years of Zinnebir
An attempt at recreating a traditional 19th-Century saison, heavily hopped and mixed with lambic then barrel aged
An historical style spelt saison, dry-hopped and refermented with Brettanomyces
The second beer in the 'Zinnebir' celebration/collaboration series
A Christmas beer that is lighter, drier and hoppier than a standard winter seasonal
A malty blond ale with a pleasant peppery bite from only the second brewery in Brussels
