La Trappe Blond

33 cl bottle, ’bbe’ Sep 08. Orange, light cloudy. Yeasty and fruity (banana, melon, pineapple) aroma. Sweetish and fruity taste with a light hoppy finish, which develops certain spiciness retronasally. Nice body for a 6.5% beer.

Yellowish colour (young home made Aligote wine), very cloudy, respectable foamy head. Fruity aroma and palate. An extradose of yeast.

Bottled 33cl. Orange color with a nice head. Aroma is very fruit. Soft mouthfeel. Taste is malty, notes of yeast and fruits. Sweet end.

Pours a golden color with a large frothy head that disappated quickly. There was almost no lacing left on the glass. I smelled malt, spices and some dried fruit on the nose. Very dry palate with tastes of malt, fruit and yeast. Very low carbonation and not. The mouthfeel wasn’t what I expected and was rather weak for a Belgian Ale. It seemed like something was missing as this was not very complex.

Rhythmically ticking (really) murky orange measure sniffing of wood, candy and bananas. Flavour-wise, peach-like fruitiness, slightly smoky malt and pleasantly wheaty afters. But a dank, watery antiseptic cardboard back taste that really doesn’t convince. Echoes of Vieux Lille. Very disappointing.

Bottle. Cloudy yellow colour with a medium white head. Aroma and flavour of fruit, spice, malt and hops.

Bottle. Little cloudy, yellow color. Sweet aroma with flowers, yeast and wheat. Feels thick in mouth with right balance of carbonate. Didn’t like the taste that much. It has lots of different hard-to-define flavours. overripe fruits, vegetables (peas?) and yeast. This is my first belgian ale, and it wasn’t my kind of beer.

Bottle, 750 ml. (bb 06.2007) Clear orange/golden body under a low, vanishing white head. Typical fruity Belgo nose with scents of ripe banana and mild spices. Nice sweet/acidic flavors; sweet citrus, green apples with hints of honey, spice and alcohol. Distant hopbitterness. Smooth palate. Dry/acidic finish.