Cazeau Tournay Blond/Dorée

Brewed by Brasserie de Cazeau
Style: Belgian Ale
Templeuve, Belgium

Serve in Trappist glass, Tulip, Tumbler

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Pretty nice. Initial aroma of beers. Pours cloudy blond with fuzzy head, very lively carbonation. Aftertaste bitter and sour. Some florals in aroma. Well balanced light Belgian beer. Bottle.

Légère pétillance, assez maltée, plutôt douce avec un léger retour houblonné, finale très légèrement sucrée

Strong, yeasty flavor has malty and fruity underpinnings. Pours a hazy solar yellow with a fairly thick and fluffy dirty white head. Flavor is strongly fruity, mainly pear with subtle banana and apple notes, with some malt and yeast in attendance as well. Texture has good fizz, but comes across as on the thin side. A good drink nonetheless.

Amber blond old gold coloured beer with thin foam head. We tasted the 75cl bottle. The beer has a great malty start and a hoppy bitter finish the aftertaste is bitter long and dry. ---Rated By the Belleketels

Draught@Festival Brassicole Tournai 2012. - strangely oldfashioned new take on a wallonian strong ale: floral, sweetish, with subserving hop bitterness, oily palate and a whole bunch of unnecessary spice coming in to play with more welcome straightforward natural flavours. Hence, too much of a good thing and average.

This review is exported from olutopas.info with no comment. Original rating date 4.12.2009

33cl bottle, several months past best by date but none the worse for it as far as I can tell. Labe says 7% ABV. This Tournay pours a slightly hazy (it’s bottle-conditioned) amber body with an oversized creamy off-white head. The head holds up exceptionally well and leaves remarkable walls of creamy lace on the glass. The nose is a gentle mix of bready malts and largely citrus fruit. Hints of grassy, herbal and floral hops. The flavor is mildly sweet, with some tartness and bitterness. There’s more hop flavor than the nose suggests, at least by the finish. Floral, grassy and spicy notes linger with the biscuity malt in lingering aftertaste. M: Nicely smooth, with a dry, light finish. Satisfying near-medium body. O: Adequately complex with a fruity and floral heart. With a fine mouthfeel and great look, it is also easy to drink given the 7% ABV. More like a Belgian PA than a tripel. Certainly worth trying.

Huh... for a Belgian Ale of 6.7% this is good, don’t get me wrong, but it’s also quite plain to me. The best part about it was the huge head and spiderwebs. The actual beer reminded me of an English blonde, but drier, with a small amount of spice. Fairly fruity, no tartness for me, I think if this were made by a brewery in Saskatchewan or Idaho, no one would be exactly batting an eye screaming "Wow tastes just like a real Belgian!", it’d be a "tick beer" if you catch my drift. Maybe I just woke up on the wrong side of the continent/ocean today.

Bottle: Medium to smaller vast white head changes slowly into a thicker lacing on top of a light hazy yellow colored beer. Smell herbs and spices, some hops, some flowers, some Taste herbs, honey, hops, hay, flowers, fruits, light bitter, hint of yeast and hint of cardboard and some malts. Aftertaste is floral crispy and some herby hops. Low carbo, soft mouthfeel, medium bit thin body and a creamy texture. Not bad but a bit weak though easy drinkable.

Bottle. Hazy gold with a large fluffy head. Aroma is dominated by yeast. Flavour is sweet, yeast with a lemon zest and tangy on the tongue.