Anker Blond

Brewed by Brouwerij Het Anker
Style: Belgian Ale
Mechelen, Belgium

Serve in Trappist glass, Tulip, Tumbler

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Faint hazy warm-blond beer with good livelyness and with very nice creamy froth. Soft honeyed aromas with a nice presence of pale malts, summer flowers, stone fruit pits and some corriander. Taste has a nice roundness that turns into a medium dry caracter. There is a good dosis of pale malts in the flavour with some smooth honey tones and touches of soft spices. In the afthertaste you can notice a fine touche of mirabelle and apricot stones. The finish is tuning dry and has a fine hoppy bitterness. At Kulminator in Antwerp.
Earlier Rating: 5/10/2005 Total Score: 3.6
Light amber color with fine light-beige creamy froth. Nice cookie aroma with fine fruity hints of fresh apple and sweet pear also a nutty accent in the nose. Taste is mild and has a refreshing fruity light-sour accent. also a little touch of flowers and a grassy bitter touch of hops. A nice refreshing beer with a yeasty touch in the end.

(Bottle 75 cl) Beautiful fully golden beer with a fine, creamy head and a rather high carbonation. Lightly fruity and perfumy nose with a touch of yeast. Lightly sweet malt and pronounced notes of coriander. Rather dry and slightly sulphurous finish. No real bitterness. Huge yeast sediment clouds the last inch or so of this beer. 080705
Earlier Rating: 7/3/2005 Total Score: 3.1
(Bottle 33 cl) Slightly hazy, golden ale with a small, white, creamy head. Very perfumy nose. Rather sweet and spicy and again very perfumy flavours. Interesting. 030705

UPDATED: JUN 24, 2006 Good white, dense head; well-carbonated beer, golden with a cold haze. Soapy, a little spicey nose. Lots of malts figuring here already. Bitterish onset, quite dry, spices seemingly creeping up slowly, but never getting outspoken. Generally quite sweet, but with surrounding bitterness and a toasted flavour that reaches into a burning MF. Some body, obviously, flashing more alcohol than its ABV. Not bad, as they come. I seriously doubt this would be a label clone from Margriet - but it is... says the brewery. Good balance overall.
Earlier Rating: 7/2/2005 Total Score: 3.3 under the name of "Margriet"
Huge just off-white head, whipped cream-like, slowly collapsing; pale golden clear beer. Very wheaty nose, slightly spiced - coriander - pale malts. Toasted, roasted malts flavour, ad odds with the colour; some coriander but not overly so. Quite some sweetness, but nowhere the raisiny kind usual for Gouden Carolus. More neutral, soft-spiced finish. Some burning, medium bodied, fluffy MF, rather dry after all. Hmmm... will be trying Anker blond one of these days. Really curious as how much they differ... Reasonable blonde, nothing more.

Amber blond. Nice fruity aroma. Taste is very sour. It’s fruity, hints of apple. But for me it’s way to sour, especially the aftertaste..

Bottled: Golden colred. Hazy. White head. Ferfumed, sweet and yeasty aroma. Flavour of coriander, apple and sweets. Litght sour in the end.
Earlier Rating: 9/19/2004 Total Score: 3.4
Bottled: Unclear light yellow coloured. Off white huge fluffy head. Aroma is citric, fruity and ligth spices. Some yeast notes. Flavour is spiced, yeasty and malty. Has citrus notes. Is light fruity in the end. Refreshing and dry.

Blond beer with a small head. Fruity and nutty aroma. The taste is yeasty and a bit thin. Slightly dry and a bit bitter. Light hoppy aftertaste.

amber-blond colour with a dense and fine creamy head, fruity aroma (pear, apple), yeasty notes, medium to full-bodied, a bit acidic in the beginning, decent finishing bitterness, long fruity and yeasty finish - fresh and lively; a very charming beer - thanks to Jean-Claude Germond for this beer !

On tap at the Swan And Rushes, Leicester, RB crawl 2005. In a day of wierd and wonderful beers, this was a welcome breather, fuzzy gold, pillowy head, vanilla spice flavour, clean and crisp, good cleansing beer!

Hazy golden color with a white head. The taste is malty with light yeasty and spicy notes. The yeast gives a light soapy note which can be a little ugly.

Sampled draught at Akkurat, Stockholm.
Hazy golden, small creamy head.. Light citrusy nose. Malt and vanilla flavour, soft mouthfeel, balanced sweetness. Velvetty honey finish. Subtile, but with great quality.