Grimbergen Blonde

Alken-Maes (Heineken)
Brewed at Kronenbourg (Carlsberg)
Style: Belgian Ale
Jumet, Belgium

Serve in Trappist glass, Tulip, Tumbler

0.33L bottle, clear dark yellow colour with a touch of brown taint, malty aroma with some winey notes and a hint of something medicinal. flavour of light caramel and fruit with a hint of apple and a strong candy sweetness which is a bit to alcoholic, medium body, chineese sweet and sour aftertaste.

yellow pour, thin offwhite head. sweet malty aroma with a bit of fruit esters. Mouthfeel is a bit syrupy and flavor is mostly sweet malt accompanied by some yeast and a bit of dates and some apricot fruit. not bad flavor but not complex

Gold to copper colour, small head (could have been due to dirty glass), fairly carbonated. Mild sweet with small bitter. Tiny hints of fruit. Okay beer.

Location: 11.2 oz bottle with my lunch as Petite Abeille, 7/17/09

Aroma: Light nose, sweet malt aroma, fruity, yeasty
Appearance: Pale yellow color
Flavor: Fruity sweetness, with a tartness to it as well, yeasty flavor
Palate: Light body, smooth
Overall Impression: Decent example of the style, it isn’t the most complex beer around, but it has some good flavor to it.

11.2oz bottle-pours a foamy white head and gold color. Aroma is light fruit, grain/hay. Taste is light fruit, grain/hay/ malt-caramel sweetness, faint hops bite. Good carbonation. Light/medium body

33cl bottle. Pours gold and clear with a big white head. Aroma is white plums, malt and hay. Flavor is sweet and flowery with yeast and a bit of alcohol. Medium body, medium carbonation. No bitterness, dry finish. Not straordinary, but a good beer.

11.2 oz bottle. Pours clear golden in color with full foamy white head. Aroma yeast and light hops. Taste yeasty and sweet with bitter finish.

Aroma is of corn and grains. Looks okay, nothing spectacular. Taste is a smooth affair with caramel, some hops and malts. Overall pretty good, not great.