Leffe Blond

Brewed by InBev Belgium
Style: Belgian Ale
Leuven, Belgium

Great for a beer that you can get in a large variety of places with its own unique taste. I feel bad, because even though the taste is unique and it’s a taste which I admire, I have had many better beers.

Very pale yellow. Decent head. Aroma is not exactly inviting, but it’s OK. Spicy flavor is alright, but the dry mouthfeel pulled all the moisture from my mouth. Gnar.

Best Before: 24/07/10. Appearance: Pours a crystal clear, gold body with a smallish, fizzy, white head. Smell: It’s a sweet-scented, nigh sugary nose with notes of lightly grainy pilsner malts, fruits brushed with clover honey, spice, soft florals, and alcohol. Taste: Sweet maltiness blended with some grainy pilsner malts and sprinkled with crushed honey candies. Drying, warming alcohol enters fairly early in the taste. Slight white peach fruitiness. Subtle clove spiciness and even subtler banana taste. Subdued hop flavor with no more than enough bitterness to make itself known. Regardless of the alcohol and, albeit low, hop character, reemerging candied sweetness pops in here and there. Finishes semi-dry. Mouthfeel: Medium-bodied. Medium-plus carbonation. Drinkability: While perusing the label for any possible dating, I caught some light through the bottom of the bottle and noticed just how downright clean the inside of the bottle looked. Sure enough, it’s been filtered to a high degree and seems to have lost more than it’s gained. Overall, it’s a passable, acceptable, widely available Belgian blonde, though I dare say there’re better blondes to be had out there.

A nice beer. Pours a clear gold colour with an airy, white head. A nose of wet vegetation and bready yeast. The flavour is light, crisp and sweet, with notes of fruit, oatmeal, and a slight touch of honey. It has a nice, dry finish but also a slight bitter note that makes it hard to drink more than one or two...

(bottle). Pours a clear golden color. Medium white head. Lemon aroma. Wheat flavor. Avg duration. Spare lacing. Thin texture. Fizzy carbonation. Sligthly astringent.

This is a not very exciting blonde beer. In terms of taste, it has a rather disappointing after taste of disinfectant.

OFFEND BELLE ! This beer has grown on me. Always a bigger fan of the brown, I’m beginning to find myself turning. Served rarely from a 750ml bottle, the colour was pure golden, with a lacy thin head that sat on a fizzy soup of bubbles. The taste was striking and typical of many abbey blondes but still with that recognisable Leffe taste that despite its availability is still damned good. Ended up having two

On draft at numerous locations in France, where it was often the best beer on the menu. Hazy light yellow-orange body, medium off-white head. Fruity nose with wet grass and tangy malts. Medium-bodied with notes of citrus and spicy esters, balanced by wet hay and sudsy bitterness. Floral. Nothing spectacular, but quaffable.