De Arend Nello’s Blond

Brewed by De Proefbrouwerij
Style: Belgian Ale
Lochristi - Hijfte, Belgium

Serve in Trappist glass, Tulip, Tumbler

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Brown 33cl bottle with loads of Japanese on the rear label (I bought it in Belgium!). Best before 29 Sept 2012, drank as my second beer during one of my ’random beer tasting’ evenings in Aug 2010. Poured into a stemmed ’Hoegaarden Grand Cru’ tulip glass. Dull light orange body with a large snowy white head sat on top and trying to get out the glass. Most of the sediment stayed in the bottle, but some managed to get out, hence the dullness of the colour (maybe). So, so Belgian in aroma and initial taste: somehow the yeast esters just tell you that you’ve got a Belgian beer in your hand, this certainly did. It is fairly sweet both in smell and flavour, clean tasting and very drinkable. All Spice and summer flower garden (sweet pea and daisies) sort of feel to it. This beer came out best in the evenings scoring, against some other good beers.

(Bottled) Almost clear amber with small, floating yeast bits, and a smallish, firm and lasting head. Very pleasantly fruity aroma with honeyish maltiness and grassy hop hints. Flavor is not as fruity, but there’s plenty of pale malt, some hay, and maybe a touch of cardboard. Hides the alcohol well. Medium body with soft-n-foamy carbonation. A positive surprise, although the flavor didn’t quite meet the expectations set by the lovely fruity aroma.

Bottle, 7%. Orange juice aroma. Cloudy orange colour, small white head. Sweet malt flavour with a hint of metal or blood. Turns nicely bready and slightly warming after a while. Good bread notes and some orange notes.

33cl , bottle. Dark golden colour, with a white head. Aroma is sweet malty and yeasty. Some fruit is present too. Sweet taste, and fruity. A good drinkable beer.

Bottled. Hazy yellowish golden colour, mediumsized white head. Aroma is spices, alcohol, fruits, yeast and some caramel. Flavour is fruits, yeast, spices and some yeastyness. Not much alcohol in flavour. Good and wellbalanced thing.

deep golden with a big, creamy head. Nice spicy hop and yeasty bread aroma. Green apples that is also found in the flavour, which is generally quite sweet. A bit sugary. Good maltiness, and also spicy flavours. This beer wants to be many things at the same time, but overall it is quite pleasant.

A little hazy golden colored beer, with a thick white foamy head. The aroma of fruits, like citrus and orange. Some malts and hops. A little spicy. The Taste of yeast with fruits, like like orange/manderin, notes of lemon. A nice hoppy bitterness. And a little honey sweet. The aftertaste is long bittersweet.

Bottled 33cl (Beer Tempel, Brussels)
Orange color, good white head, some lace. Fruity and leathery aroma with lime peels. Foamy carbonation. Lingering citrus, some sweetier fruityness and hops in the aftertaste. Just right amount of backing alcohol. Refreshing tripel.

Medium offwhite head. Light amber body. Fruity lightly rubbery aroma, very strange. Sweetish half-watery wooden fruity taste with honey and grain notes. No real aftertaste. Nice session beer, with some complexity. (0.33l bottle from Dorstvlegel, Antwerp.)

Bottle@Home. Apple, pineapple and peach aroma. Golden color, white irregular head, good lace. Sweet, light bitter, fruity, apple, peach, pineapple. Full, little warming in the finish. Good blond ale.