Ciney Blonde

Brewed by Alken-Maes (Heineken)
Style: Belgian Ale
Jumet, Belgium

Serve in Trappist glass, Tulip, Tumbler

33cl bottle. Pours a clear golden liquid with a small gray head. Nose : Fruity notes (cherry, raspberry, apple). Floral honey. Grains and caramel. Sip : Sparkling body. Fine carbonation. Begins with little sweetness from caramelized malts and ends sour like cider and cherry. Balanced. It’s far from being a cider nor fruit beer. It’s a nice beer, nothing more or less. It’s a beer I usually don’t mind drinking from bottle.

Bottle at a pub in Lier, Belgium. It poured a clear golden liquid with a big white head. Fresh and fruity smell with some light malts, apples. Sweet and fruity taste with sugar and sugarcandy. A bit to sweet, but besides that pretty nice.

33 cL bottle into a Ciney glass at Domus in Leuven, almost a brandy glass. Yellow/orange with ok head. Aroma is spice and esters. Tastes bitter, sharp, spiced and reasonable. But there are a good few better examples of the type.

On tap. A clear light orange colour with a small , beige head. An aroma of malt, fruit and hops. The taste is medium sweet and light bitter. A medium body, watery texture, soft carbonation and a medium long finish.

almost amber color, with a tall frothy head. Aroma of fruits, malt. Sweet taste, but pleasant

On tap at the huppel, the Hague. Thick blond head. Clear blond pour. Nice enough blond.

Bottle. Light golden, small to average and mostly diminishing head. Moderate, malty – lightly wheaty and sweetish aroma, some fruitiness, faint spiciness and hoppyness. Body is light medium, malty – lightly wheaty and lightly sweetish flavor, some fruitiness, faint grassy hoppyness and spiciness. Finish is average, malty – lightly wheaty and lightly sweetish, fruitiness anf faint spiciness, some alcohol. Fruity and sweetish blond – nothing special.

Bottle @ home. Light orange to yellow / golden color, small white head. Smell malts and slightly sweet. Taste ok. Decent carbo and body.