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Review: Prearis Blond
Prearis Blond
Posted: 20 March 2015
6.5
Vliegende Paard Brewers, the Belgian team behind the Prearis brand of beers, is another craft upstart. Prearis Blond is what the label promises. It's fruity, it's citrusy, it's mildly bitter. You wouldn't be disappointed if you selected this at your local bar for a quick one. But you wouldn't be blown away either.
Avg price/liter: USD 12.00
ABV %: 6.0
Type: Saison
Vliegende Paard Brewers, the
Belgian team behind the Prearis brand of beers, is another
craft upstart. Homebrewers to start, Prearis entered a
national homebrew competition in Belgium in April 2011 and
won best home-brewed craft beer. I'm not one to hold
much stock in competitions no one has ever heard of.
Needless to say, a few months later, Vliegende was brewing
commercially and now export their beers to slightly more
than a half dozen countries. How they got on the radar
to get to Thailand is beyond me.
Prearis Blond is what the
label promises. It's fruity, it's citrusy, it's mildly
bitter. Just like you'd expect from any saison. You wouldn't be disappointed if you selected
this at your local bar for a quick one.
But you wouldn't be blown
away either. You'd comment to yourself, "This is
a tasty and refreshing Belgian brew," as you quickly forgot
about it because it tasted as good as all the other tasty
and refreshing Belgian brews you've been sampling.
Today's Belgian craft
upstarts have a different set of obstacles to face than the
craft upstarts in the US three decades ago. US craft
brewers, circa 1985, had to convince a public whose taste
buds had been detuned from a near half century of bland
flavorless lagers to pay higher prices for a completely
different taste. Belgian upstarts already face a beer
market that's already varied, delicious, and more costly
than a buck a bottle. As such, if they want to make
heads turn, they need to brew something original, different,
and memorable.