Duvel Moortgat Vedett Extra Playa

Vedett Extra Playa

 

Duvel Moortgat in Breendonk, Antwerp, Belgium 🇧🇪

Lager - Pilsener Regular
Score
4.98
ABV: 5.2% IBU: - Ticks: 11
¡Ay, caramba! You’ve gotta try Vedett Extra Playa! The easy-drinking tropical lager that’s brewed with a twist of irony – and served with a twist of lime. The ideal way to toast the sunset (and sunrise!) from the beach or rooftop bar.

Taste the tantalising notes of tropical citrus. Experience the smooth, clean palate. And feel the cold, fresh burst of flavour of this ultimate summer thirst-quencher. Brewed with corn for a light and refreshing aftertaste.

In short: a Belgian’s dream of summer, in a bottle.
 

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3.4
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 3 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 3 | Overall - 3

SĂĽĂźlicher, weich getreidiger Start. Geringe Aromatik, Mais, trockener Hintergrund. Naja... 6/5/11/5/8/5

Tried from Bottle on 21 Jan 2023 at 17:50


4.6
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 5.5

33cl bottle. A clear yellow golden beer with a white head. Aroma of pale malt, straw and grains. Taste of wet straw, grainy malt, cardboard.

Tried from Bottle on 21 Jan 2023 at 17:50


4

Tried from Bottle on 22 May 2022 at 10:58


5

Tried from Bottle on 17 Oct 2021 at 16:14


5

Tried from Bottle on 17 Oct 2021 at 16:10


6
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6

Bottle at home. Clear a bit light golden color, fizzy quickly diminishing white head. Smell and taste are quite bland. I don't get much. Maybe a distant lemon-ish thingy in there in the distance? Oh well. Drinkable.

Tried on 05 Aug 2021 at 20:38


4.5
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 5

33cl bottle from Delhaize Chazal in Brussels. F: thin, white, quick gone. C: urine yellow, clear. A: caramel, bit DMS, white sugar, herbal touch. T: light fruity, bit mineral water, lemonade, caramel touch, corny, medium carbonation, herbal touch, another useless beer that’s all.

Tried from Bottle on 18 Dec 2020 at 18:59


3.9
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 2.5

Tropical lager in the Vedett range, flavoured with lemon peel - and ticking all the boxes when it comes to this kind of 'beer': colourless cheap longneck bottle, seemingly intended to drink from it, and brewed with corn and hop extract. As has been suggested by other raters below, the similarities with the infamous Corona are striking, and this should not be a coincidence: Corona's owner AB InBev launched a direct 'attack' on Moortgat's iconic Duvel earlier this year by referring to the name and history of it, and this suspiciously seems to be Moortgat's cunning reply to it, as if to mock Corona, the name of which is now rather ill-fated to say the least (and sales have apparently even dropped because people link it to the Covid-19 coronavirus for some reason)... Snow white, loose, bubbly head, medium thick initially but opening and dissolving quickly, until nothing at all is left; clear, very pale straw blonde robe with lively sparkling. Aroma of very strong and to me very offensive DMS (overcooked white cabbage - even dominant when served ice cold), corn flour, chicken food, perhaps a background touch of dried lemon peel somewhere but very faintly so, vague hints of wet grass, old potatoes, wet white paper, melting rubber. Rather neutral onset, no fruitiness, dull sweetish graininess with tingling, even stinging carbonation (which luckily adds a bit of 'life' to it all), thin and slick body; minerally carbonation effects continue alongside this thin, watery graininess, which clearly contains a dull corn sweetish factor, with a light powderiness to it in the end. The finish adds a certain gypsum- or soda-like minerality and a very faint, late grassy hop bitterish touch, but too subtly so even to hold its own against this simple, watery, corn-sweetish graininess. And even if the ingredients list mentions lemon peel, a clear nod to the habit of inserting a lemon wedge in a Corona bottle, I am still waiting for it to show itself... Luckily the initial DMS fades after a while and does not strongly return retronasally, but all that is left, is a very neutral, thin and watery, almost flavourless beer - much like Corona indeed. If this is the standard on which the battle between AB InBev and Moortgat is fought, then I think I'll pass for the next round. Tropical lager indeed - and I would be less offended by it if it weren't for that damn DMS in the nose. Worst Moortgat beer I ever had, by far, but this specific 'tropical' substyle of pale lager never promises anything good anyway - I guess it is just, well, even worse than expected...

Tried from Bottle on 02 Oct 2020 at 21:39


3.8
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 3 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 3 | Overall - 4.5

330 ml. clear bottle. Very pale corn looking golden. “Tropical” lager with citrus extract & corn. Recommended serving temperature is 3 °C. Nose is all sweet vegetable cooking oil & corn. Soft carbonation, poor industrial lager with oil, citrus is vague like some diluted washing liquid, starch & some weird white part of citrus & chemical low bitterness in the back. Garbage but could be worse I suppose.

Tried from Bottle on 10 Sep 2020 at 15:57


4.5
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 4

Drukket på Bergstua. Veldig lys gylden. Klar. Lavt tett skum. Aromamassasje malt & gress. Smaken gress med en anelse lime. Tørr syrlig avslutning. Direkte kjedelig.

Tried on 29 Aug 2020 at 17:57