Brugge Blond

Brewed by Brouwerij Palm
Style: Belgian Ale
Steenhuffel, Belgium

Serve in Trappist glass, Tulip, Tumbler

Draft at Beerpassion Weekend Antwerp.The smel is spicy. A sweet and moderate beer.

Thought this one was going to be ok off the back of the aromas; sweet spices and cloves in a Leffe kinda way, with more than a hint of banaa confectionary. Palate got unfriendly very quickly with the sweet flavours haddening and getting suprisingly bitter. A touch thick and sickly.

This blond has a nice head on the warm golden brew. The aroma is both hoppy and malty, and the flavour is sweetish with notes of apple and citrus, that a short while is rather harsh, but gradually fades out. It’s a rather light blond.

Clear orange gold with a fluffy white head that didn’t really last. A yeast dominated aroma with banana and some soft spice that makes it seems like a liquid dessert. Actually, I’ve changed my mind. It has a creamy coconut milk finish that has me thinking, in a light bulb over the head moment, of a pina colada (although light on the pineapple - maybe a banana colada). Quite a sweet taste, with some bitterness hanging around that combines with the sugary sweetness making it a touch cloying and sickly. It’s got an interesting aroma that had me thinking, but it wasn’t something that I really enjoyed (the beer not the thinking that is).

330ml bottle at Belgian Beer Café, Sydney. Nose mainly consists of light fruity flavours and some citrusy hops. Pours a clean pale golden body with a fluffy white head. Flavour has some spicey banana like yeast character to it topped off with a dry citrus tang. Body is reasonably thin for the strength, quite spritzy. A reasonably nice Belgium blonde, plenty better out there though.

0.33l bottle purchased here in Split
Clear golden colour with lots of lazy carbonationand a med-big white fluffy but thick head that went away med-slow pace. Yeasty-spicey, somewhat stale and bready nose with just a touch of malt. Light spicy-sourish taste, coriander, mild lemony-bitter hopiness in the finish-aftertaste, weak cardboard, a bit biting yet a bit smooth. Pleasant, simple yet complex in its way, but far from great. Ok.

UPDATED: MAR 30, 2007 Bottled at Pressklubben, Stockholm. Clear deep golden, firm head. Evident almondy yeast aroma. Sweet with clean mouthfeel. and medium body. Slim flavours with dextrose and yeast in the front seat. Low bitterness. Very basic Belgian ale.

A Mes rate: 33cl freebie bottle from Lowlander. Great clear amber blonde looks with a dense white head. Yeasty aroma with some biscuit. Metallic flavour with some sweet malt and slight fruit. Finish is almost a vanish. Not great.