3.5 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 14/20
11.2 ounce bottle from Kybecca in Fredericksburg, VA. Pours a clear amber color with a thin creamy white head. Good head retention and lacing. Aroma is bready and nutty with candi sugar and light fruity notes. Taste is caramel, bread, nuts, herbal hops and faint stone fruit notes. Medium-bodied, smooth, very slight alcohol warmth.
3.1 AROMA 3/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 15/20
The taste is sweet, similar to a helles. The color a dark blond. The hops are not overpowering.
2.8 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 2/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
Pours a clear copper color with a medium-sized whitish head. very pilsener-looking. Aroma is of faint hops and pilsener malts, maybe a little peach too. Flavor has a little generic fruitiness, straw/grasses, more apple toward the end. Crisp finish, lighter density for the style. Overall, good.
3.4 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 13/20
Crystal clear straw gold pour with a thin white head. Aroma is peach, bread and some spice. Taste is light and sweet also. Very good body and not overly sweet like some other beers of this style. Clean crisp finish.
3.3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
330ml bottle. Pours a golden orange in color with a good size white fluffy head. Has a sweet aroma, with hints of yeast and spices. Crisp, slightly sweet taste with a little bit of hops and a nice dry finish. Tasty, and fairly easily drinkable for the abv.
4.2 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 9/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 17/20
UPDATED: NOV 11, 2011 Re-rating, on bottle in Paris. Great beer, malty and tasty. Aromas of caramel and grain. Taste is sweet, with bitter notes, and long length. Palate is velvety, and medium bodied. Dark yellow, with a frothy head.
Tap. Tasty and easy-drinking. Aroma has fruits (apple), grain, and caramel. Flavour is long-lasting, it starts sweet, with bitterness at the end. Silky in the palate, medium body. Dark yellow and clean in the glass, with a thin and frothy head.
3.4 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 13/20
Enjoyed from an 11.2oz bottle in a hexagonal pub glass. The beer pours a medium golden color with a moderate white head. Carbonation is on target, for the style. The nose gives strong hints that the strain of yeast used was that made famous by Chimay. Strong notes of grain, along with slight pear, and earthy tones. The palate is almost an exact replica of Leffe Blonde, which, given the latter’s standing within the BJCP, is a plus. Pilsner sweetness up front, followed by a just barely balancing hop presence, and the same yeast-derived esters. Overall, not entirely life-changing, but well-crafted and certainly worth a higher rating than many of those viewed.
3.6 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 15/20
33cl bottle, as shown. Clear golden yellow colour, thick, bubbly white head with good lacing. Aroma of yeast, fruit and some herbs. Medium body and carbonation, smooth mouth feel. Taste of yeast, some citrus fruit and more spicy herbs, with medium bitter finish and slightly sour after taste. A refreshing, but not bland, blonde - for once,. the above-average alcohol is well integrated and the brew not too sweet. More sessionable than other Belgian ales. If only the bottles weren’t so tiny!
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