Gaverhopke Blonde

Brewed by ’t Gaverhopke
Style: Abbey Tripel
Stasegem-Harelbeke, Belgium

Serve in Trappist glass, Tulip

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UPDATED: JUN 12, 2005 (Bottle 33 cl) Beautiful fully golden beer, quite sparkingly carbonated and very limited head. Yeast sediment in the bottle. Very fruity aroma, and the fruit -citrus?- is also in the flavour, which is fresh and very "summerly". Only slight bitterness and the sweetness is discreet as well. Very harmonic beer. 130804

Orange-golden beer with slight haze; dense, just off-white head, very slowly receding leaving some lace. Fresh beery nose, herbal, faint citrus & fruity, bit like fruit-flavoured sweets. Mainly sweet-neutral, sweets-like sweetness (doesn’t sound that sweet!), lemonzeste flavour whithout the tartness, faint pale malts. Finish is slightly sourish, even more citrussy. Warming up, honeyish notes. Light MF for an 8% beer, certain slickness. Plain, but decent beer, not a single off-taste, just rather neutral, and the light MF are surprising. Good for such a small brewery.

Bottled. Cloudy mustard yellow. Soft, dry malt is the foundation. In a distance very light notes of vinegar lurks. The malt structure is complex and backed by some light hoppiness. An enjoyable subtle and complex beer.