Gulpener Chateau Neubourg

Brewed by Gulpener Bierbrouwerij
Style: Classic German Pilsener
Gulpen, Netherlands

Unlike some others I really like this bottle. A big departure from the usual brown green or clear. The beer looks typically like a fine pilsner with its blonde hue and creamy head. A little spiciness in the nose imparted by the hops and a soft bicuity undertone combine well. This drinks very well in the crisp spiciness followed by some citric fruitiness. The carbonation is low imparting a certain softness that adds to the mouthfeel. Overall this is a fine beer and one that will hopefully be repeated next time I get myself over to the west and the best damn beers shop in the country.

Bottle at home. Enjoyable pilsener. Golden color. A bit spicy with lightly sweet taste. Can also detect caramel. Tingly mouthfeel. Extra points for the cool blue bottle.

Bottle thanks to Jorgen. Golden colour with a big white head. Light sweet malty, corn, light carboard aroma and a light sweet dry hay taste. Medium body with a dry dusty finish.

Bottle. Golden colour with a little weak head. Malty aroma with some notes of fruit. Light hoppy flavour with some maltness and fruitness.

Bottle. Clear yellow coloured with a white head. Aroma of malts, spices and hops. Flavour of malts, spices and hops.

(Bottle 33 cl) Clear, fully golden with a creamy, off-white head. Nice rich maltiness in the aroma. Fairly light body with some lovely, lightly caramelish accents and then a fairly solid hopping. Nice. 151206

The Dutch version of Australia’s Crown Lager, perhaps, with that ridiculous blue bottle hiding in it what turned out to be a decent, meaty pilsner. Into a flute glass. Big, very loose, messed up white head erupted to daub froth down the sides. Body a comforting deep gold with very fine, slow to release bubbles. Initial burst of sourish, acrid, fresh mowed grass wanes to reveal some assertive honey-like malt tones on the nose. Quite sweet in the mouth- honey again, a dark, rich variety - with a softer showing of dusty pale malts keeping it grounded. Dull, breakfast cereal mid-palate dries it out before a nice peppery hop back-end that shows just a little bitterness on the swallow before all fresh mown grass and dusty malts finish it off with good length.Very subtle hop sourness develops across the very sides of the tongue. Body is firm, not light, making this a little too heavy for a session. With that in mind I can’t contemplate the workings behind the strange blue bottle. I actually liked this. Showed nice balance and good flavour integration. Better than expected, can’t judge a book by its cover!!! (33cL, BBE Jan ’07, Int’l Beer Shop, W. Leederville)

Deeper gold, well carbonated to huge, dirty white, fluffy head. In the empty glass, the head is still clinging on, and seen its colour, I suspect the use of iron... Very imposing toasted malts aroma, near honeyish; grainstore, even bit dusty. Good balance between malty sweetness and a hoppy lining (both in the initial moment as in the finish). Tad flowery, but not very original. Has a certain body, not light; a bit burning MF, which I associate with both heavy carbonation and the toasted malts. I need to correct this down, as, despite its individual OK characteristics in detail, it is not something I’d search for - despite the fancy blue bottle.