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A Belgian Ale brewed by
Brasserie Union (Alken-Maes / Scottish & Newcastle)

Jumet, Belgium

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63.08/5.03.01/5.07.2%0Trappist glass, Tulip, Tumbler P  Stats

Commercial Description:
Brewed for the chez Léon mussels/French fries chain, and also for the Brussels Airlines. Léon beer is pale and full-bodied. It has been specially concocted by Master Brewer Jean Pagura in collaboration with the Alken-Maes brewery to create a delicious combination to go together with the Belgian and Brussels dishes served at chez Léon. This beer is unique because it can only be tasted at chez Léon in the rue des Bouchers where it is served in a large, round glass, specially designed for it. It is the result of a clever mix of pale malts, spring and winter barley and rare hops from Germany and the UK . It derives its whole personality from a final addition of sweet and sour orange peel. This Belgian high fermentation beer is served from the barrel and is 7.2°. It is brewed at Jumet in the installations at the ancestral Union brewery.

 Jerre (1410), Waregem, Belgium
3 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/104/56/103/511/20

Jun 29, 2008  
From can, 25 cl. Bought @ Carrefour. Clear golden color, with normal white head. Aroma very low, sweet, malts, bit fruity nose. Medium body. Taste is very regular blonde. Sweet, fruits, malts, little hops, low bitterness.

 Wim (792), Turnhout, Belgium
3.2 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/103/57/103/512/20
Oct 3, 2008  
clear gold blond coloured body with a white head a sweet malty aroma a sweet malty fruity taste with a sweet fruity bitter finish


 JorisPPattyn (4526), Antwerpen, Belgium
2.9 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/104/55/103/511/20
Aug 29, 2008  
Bought as Bière Léon, and apparently 0.2% lighter .
Huge, fine & dense, lightly yellow-coloured disappearing head over well-carbonated darker golden beer. Alcohol, citrus/orangepeel, white candisugar. Certain cookie sweetness, but inviting, though somewhat crude aroma’s. Certain acidity, faintly metallic is what strikes first. Having had this beer less citric before, I wonder if this was intended. Retronasal, the alcohol comes out in force, making it sweet, certainly warming up, cookie- or caramel-like, but again with a citrussy finish. Quite spritzy carbonation, not very well-bodied, thinnish finish. Despite the citrus and the top-fermentation, it cannot really dispell a certain glorified "malt liquor" notion.


 Bart (1402), Vosselaar, Belgium
3.4 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/103/58/103/513/20
Aug 25, 2008  
Canned, Darker blond, light amber coloured with some small carbonation and a small white head. Malty sweeter aroma with some light alcoholic touches. Full sweeter creamy palate. Finish is bitter fruity malty with some light sweeter alcoholic touches. Not bad.


 FrankJohansen (2807), Sabro, Denmark
2.7 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
5/103/55/103/511/20
May 21, 2008  
Can. Clear golden colour with a medium white mostly lasting head. I dont see what so special about this one. Its probably one of the worst belgian ales i ever had.



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