Castelain Blond Biere

Brewed by Castelain
Style: Bière de Garde
Benifontaine, France

Serve in Snifter, Tulip

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I really like the biere de garde style. Drinking it makes me feel like it is summer even though it is February and cold. This is a very good example of the style, it is like a lager or pilsener but a little different. Extra malty and yeasty, and highly carbonated. This beer is extremely refreshing and very well made.

Quite pleasant, nice color and attractive appearance. Nice body and well balanced showing unique malt and hop characteristics. Some residual sweetness. Overall a well made beer.

Gorgeous appearance with a straw colored body, thick frothy head and flakes of spent yeast riding the bubbles like a snow globe that’s been shaken violently. Nice farmy aroma of yeast, hay and grapes. Medium body despite the effervescence. Hoppy and fresh with loads of winey fruits and some slick honey sugarness. Gets thicker and sweeter once warm, where the body loses some grip but the malts never lose their hold. Well balanced and altogether a solid example of the style.

Ahhh, nice aroma. Let it breathe a while and you get maple syrup notes. Nice head on golden body.......and then, wow!! this stuff is so friggin disgusting. This has got to be the sweetest golden bodied beer in the world. The sickeningly thick sweetness would just linger and finish longer than a Bergman movie. I could barely choke this stuff down. No light bodied beer needs to be this sweet. AWFUL!

Delicious and smooth. Alot of citrus and herbal nose. Good accompaniment to a pasta dish with shellfish.

Herbal/malty aroma. Rather hefty carbonation combined with a generous fluffy head. Bright yellow/golden color, of course. Filtered. Flavor is lightly fruity, with some herbal and vanilla notes. Very smooth palate, but still somewhat full-bodied beer. Not much bitterness to speak of, hops seem very subdued. Interestingly different brew. Very European tasting.

Grassy aroma with citrus hues. It’s malty and soft with a long finish.