Leffe Blonde

Brewed by InBev Belgium
Style: Belgian Ale
Leuven, Belgium

Serve in Trappist glass, Tulip, Tumbler

3/II/2012 33cl bottle @ home - BB: 22/X/12 (2012-80)

Clear light orange beer, big creamy head, stable, adhesive. Aroma: sweet sugary, alcohol, some orange peel, citrus, more sugar. MF: soft carbon, light body, some alcoholic feeling. Taste: sweet sugary taste, dirty malts, overripe banana, alcohol, some spices. Aftertaste: syrupy sugary, bit of citrus, rotten fruits, still alcohol.

Pours a golden amber color. Very big white head. Lots of lace with this one. Sweet and malty with caramel, clove, and some bread notes. Lots of carbobnation. A very filling, enjoyable beer I could drink at anytime.

Pours a crystal-golden color with a decent white head. Aroma is sweet and wheaty with notes of bubblegum. Smells like a good german Hefeweizen. Flavor is certainly reminiscent of a Hefeweizen. Bubblegum and banana flavors. Very good.

Torkad frukt och jäst registreras i receptorerna. OK kropp. Klockren en varm sommardag. Leffe kan.

Small bottle. Very fresh aroma of vanilla and fruit, pours deep golden with a good head which subsides a little. The taste is very fresh, similar to the aroma and quite sweet, with the best part of the beer being the creamy and thick texture it brings. Altogether a very good beer and also very drinkable; a favourite.

"750ML bottle has been sitting around in my cellar for 2 months so I’m hesitant to be sure if this beer is at all fresh. It was sitting even longer at Charles Street Liquors in Boston. Paid $8.99. Was feeling daring so I poured this into a Chimay Chalice A - Strikingly clear brew that’s totally filtered and free of all haze and sediment. Deep amber but still very translucent. The head was 3 fingers at the pour and never really subsided beyond 1 finger S - Honestly, smells like every other Belgian Abbey ale but very very fresh. Little Breadiness to it and hints of vanilla. T - Leffe is one of my favorite accessible abbey beers. Clean taste, vanilla and orange come through M - Dense and very filling. One 750 of this and you’ll feel pretty full like you just ate a meal. I enjoyed swishing it around and the foam going crazy in my mouth. O - I like this beer. I think after 5 beers in one day, I was feeling pretty bleh and this beer just took me over the top. It’s big, heavy and very complex so I wasn’t able to finish it. Still, Leffe is one of my favorites. This is the first time I had it in a 750. I tasted a huge difference between singles and the 750 for some reason. Not sure why or if it was just freshness related."

När Volvo 740-ägaren kör hem en kasse Björnebrygg kör Aston Martin-ägaren hem med en Leffe (ölet alltså, inte en man som heter Leif) bredvid sig på passagerarsätet. När Björnebrygg-kassen är slut sitter fortfarande smaken av Leffen kvar i gommen. När hjärnan mest minns Björne som en enda dunkande huvudvärk sitter Leffe kvar som ett bokmärke i pannloben.

Smooth beer, very tasty, light enough to enjoy several of them in one night