Newton
Brasserie Lefèbvre SA
- From:
- Brasserie Lefèbvre SA
- Belgium
- Style:
- Fruit and Field Beer
- ABV:
- 3.5%
- Score:
- 72
- Avg:
- 2.89 | pDev: 17.99%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 15
- Status:
- Inactive
- Rated:
- Mar 02, 2016
- Added:
- Jan 26, 2003
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 4
SCORE
72
Okay
72
Okay
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Rated by papat444 from Canada (QC)
3.46/5 rDev +19.7%
look: 3 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3.25
3.46/5 rDev +19.7%
look: 3 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3.25
Flashback #234
Aug 19, 2015Rated by Socialiste from Canada (QC)
3.6/5 rDev +24.6%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
3.6/5 rDev +24.6%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
Good apple taste, not much of a beer
Dec 16, 2014
Reviewed by biboergosum from Canada (AB)
3.22/5 rDev +11.4%
look: 2.5 | smell: 3 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
3.22/5 rDev +11.4%
look: 2.5 | smell: 3 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
330ml bottle, part of the otherwise typically Belgian-styled '1/2 Meter of Beer' from this brewery. Made with 15% apple juice, so not quite a shandy, it would seem at the outset.
This beer pours the whitest of white that I have ever encountered - a barely straw-tinted hazy white 'colour', like the puffy, foamy, and bubbly bone-white head sitting atop it is somehow bleeding back from whence it came. There remains a few broad swaths of melting limestone cliff lace around the glass after this all resolves itself.
It smells of musty, somewhat woody apple juice, candi sugar, sweet wheaty malt, a touch of doughy breadiness, and some earthy, mildly zingy yeast. The taste is mostly right in line with the aroma - somewhat stale, almost cider-like apple juice, further red apple skin, softly sweet wheat, grainy pale malt, and a middling earthy yeastiness.
The carbonation is fairly robust and frothy from the get-go, the body on the light side of medium weight, but nowhere near thin, and kind of smooth, the yeast and understated acidity from the apple juice tugging away here. It finishes off-dry, the agreeably balanced fruitiness chipping away at the superfluous lingering sugar, while the malt sits by, a disinterested look on its face.
Not a bad fruit beer, as apple flavoured ones go, the guest ingredient shying away from the overwrought cloyingness endemic in the few of its competitors I have thus far sampled. Nothing overly complex, but enjoyable enough, especially since I just put one and two and three together to ascertain the meaning of the decidedly non-Belgian sounding name of this offering.
Jun 13, 2014This beer pours the whitest of white that I have ever encountered - a barely straw-tinted hazy white 'colour', like the puffy, foamy, and bubbly bone-white head sitting atop it is somehow bleeding back from whence it came. There remains a few broad swaths of melting limestone cliff lace around the glass after this all resolves itself.
It smells of musty, somewhat woody apple juice, candi sugar, sweet wheaty malt, a touch of doughy breadiness, and some earthy, mildly zingy yeast. The taste is mostly right in line with the aroma - somewhat stale, almost cider-like apple juice, further red apple skin, softly sweet wheat, grainy pale malt, and a middling earthy yeastiness.
The carbonation is fairly robust and frothy from the get-go, the body on the light side of medium weight, but nowhere near thin, and kind of smooth, the yeast and understated acidity from the apple juice tugging away here. It finishes off-dry, the agreeably balanced fruitiness chipping away at the superfluous lingering sugar, while the malt sits by, a disinterested look on its face.
Not a bad fruit beer, as apple flavoured ones go, the guest ingredient shying away from the overwrought cloyingness endemic in the few of its competitors I have thus far sampled. Nothing overly complex, but enjoyable enough, especially since I just put one and two and three together to ascertain the meaning of the decidedly non-Belgian sounding name of this offering.
Reviewed by benfons from Belgium
2.79/5 rDev -3.5%
look: 2 | smell: 3 | taste: 2.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3
2.79/5 rDev -3.5%
look: 2 | smell: 3 | taste: 2.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3
A: Very pale colour, nice carbonation, almost no head
S: Granny smith, some yeast
T: Granny smith, grains and some yeast, some bad apple too
M: reasonably thin, carbonation is fine, almost no alcohol
O: for a fruit beer, it's fine but it's still a bit sweet too my taste and i won't buy this one again
Mar 01, 2012S: Granny smith, some yeast
T: Granny smith, grains and some yeast, some bad apple too
M: reasonably thin, carbonation is fine, almost no alcohol
O: for a fruit beer, it's fine but it's still a bit sweet too my taste and i won't buy this one again
Reviewed by Everydayoff from Thailand
2.7/5 rDev -6.6%
look: 2.5 | smell: 2.5 | taste: 2.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3
2.7/5 rDev -6.6%
look: 2.5 | smell: 2.5 | taste: 2.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3
330ml bottle poured into a Newton glass by freshness date.
L:
Hazy pale yellow color, reminiscence of pineapple juice, small white head that quickly recedes and leaves average lacing, carbonation seems to be medium.
S:
Apple juice and yeast, barley malt is also there but just subtle.
T:
Sweetness in similar way to apple juice, it reminds me of apple juice with soda. Yeast is detectable but malt and hop are mute.
F:
Medium body with firm amount of carbonation, it summons vast micro-bubbles touching through palate, dry finish.
O:
Likely a juice not a beer, I personally like this but would it be better to pick real apple juice rather than apple juice beer?
Jan 11, 2012L:
Hazy pale yellow color, reminiscence of pineapple juice, small white head that quickly recedes and leaves average lacing, carbonation seems to be medium.
S:
Apple juice and yeast, barley malt is also there but just subtle.
T:
Sweetness in similar way to apple juice, it reminds me of apple juice with soda. Yeast is detectable but malt and hop are mute.
F:
Medium body with firm amount of carbonation, it summons vast micro-bubbles touching through palate, dry finish.
O:
Likely a juice not a beer, I personally like this but would it be better to pick real apple juice rather than apple juice beer?
Reviewed by spinrsx from Canada (ON)
2.83/5 rDev -2.1%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3 | taste: 2.5 | feel: 3 | overall: 3
2.83/5 rDev -2.1%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3 | taste: 2.5 | feel: 3 | overall: 3
330ml Bottle
Appearance – Hazy pale yellow colour with a large size fizzy and frothy white coloured head. There is a high amount of carbonation showing and there is a decent amount of lacing. The head lasted for around 7 minutes before it was gone.
Smell - Grains, floral, green apples, cloves
Taste & Mouth - The beer has an average amount of carbonation. I can taste grains mixed with a lot of green apples and some lemon juice. I can also pick up on a bit of a clove spiciness. The beer finishes with a very sweet grainy green apple aftertaste.
Overall – I’m not a huge fan of green apples.. so even before I took my first sip I knew this wasn’t going to be a winner. However, it’s nice to try something new every now and then. It really does taste quite a bit like green apples and it deserves some points for that. Unfortunately it’s a little bit too sweet and I found myself struggling to finish the bottle. It’s worth a try but I suggest you split the bottle with someone else.
May 05, 2011Appearance – Hazy pale yellow colour with a large size fizzy and frothy white coloured head. There is a high amount of carbonation showing and there is a decent amount of lacing. The head lasted for around 7 minutes before it was gone.
Smell - Grains, floral, green apples, cloves
Taste & Mouth - The beer has an average amount of carbonation. I can taste grains mixed with a lot of green apples and some lemon juice. I can also pick up on a bit of a clove spiciness. The beer finishes with a very sweet grainy green apple aftertaste.
Overall – I’m not a huge fan of green apples.. so even before I took my first sip I knew this wasn’t going to be a winner. However, it’s nice to try something new every now and then. It really does taste quite a bit like green apples and it deserves some points for that. Unfortunately it’s a little bit too sweet and I found myself struggling to finish the bottle. It’s worth a try but I suggest you split the bottle with someone else.
Reviewed by ThaCreep from Belgium
1.93/5 rDev -33.2%
look: 2.5 | smell: 2 | taste: 1.5 | feel: 1 | overall: 3
1.93/5 rDev -33.2%
look: 2.5 | smell: 2 | taste: 1.5 | feel: 1 | overall: 3
Very pale yellow or transparent. Very fragrant scents of apple skin enough so sour on the nose with a slight hint of hops. Body very light and sweet with touches of apple much more discreet than in the nose. No sweet taste but no acid. The taste of the Witbier is nonexistent, it is thought to lager without character or taste. Finish without bitterness, just a slight reminder of the taste of apple. In short, bland beer.
Mar 21, 2010
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