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Leffe Blond

Leffe Blond - Belgian Ale

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 Percentile 
79
overall
Brewed by InBev Belgium
Style: Belgian Ale

Leuven, Belgium

bottled
common

on tap
common

Broad Distribution
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 Ratings  Average  Score  ABV  Style Pctl  Serve in 
14783.36/5.03.35/5.06.6%84.1Trappist glass, Tulip, Tumbler
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Commercial Description:
Filtered.
Uses Vieux Temps yeast which gives the clove-like flavour.
"Leffe Blond is a pale abbey beer, with a full, sunny, golden colour. It has a smooth and full bodied taste and a rich creamy head. Like all the Leffe beers, it is a ’connoisseur’ beer that is easy to drink."
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 Goodgrief (1144), Middletown, Delaware, USA
3.8 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/103/58/104/516/20
Jan 30, 2009  
Pour was yellow/gold with a thin foam head and some lacing. The aroma was bready with a yeasty zing. A nice fruity sweet malt bill with mild peppery spicing a a lot of yeastiness. Nice palate, smooth and not thin at all. A really nice drinking beer.


 dnoaksson (144), , Sweden
3.1 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/103/56/103/512/20
Jan 30, 2009  
En otroligt snäll öl som inte gör något som helst motstånd. På gränsen till för lättdrucken, faktiskt. Tack vare den rika smakfloran - skulle eventuellt kunna beskrivas som kompakt - är det ändå en upplevelse som förgyller vardagen.


 Rodders (114), Norwich, Norfolk, England
3 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
5/104/56/104/511/20
Jan 30, 2009  
(bottle from co-op) Had this beer before and there was something about I just couldn’t work out that I didn’t like. Poured a nice mid yellow golden colour with good carbonation and fast bubbles. Smells citrusy and flowers. Has a full mouthfeel with a bittersweet tast. In fact it seemed to get sweeter the more I drank. Overwhelmingly so infact. Citrus evident in flavours, felt like grapefruit or something. Not particularly refreshing, or particularly interesting. Ok, but I’ve had many better belgian ales.


 Dervock (178), Emu plains, Australia
3.7 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/104/58/104/515/20
Jan 28, 2009  
Bottle - Pours a golden colour with a clean white head. Yeasty aroma, slightly sweet. Spicy taste, finished with a mixture of dry and sweet.


 GAManiac (1120), Atlanta, Georgia, USA
3.2 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/103/57/103/513/20
Jan 27, 2009  
On tap at Johnathan’s Bistro in Appleton, WI. Pours clear golden amber with a small swirl of bubbles on top and little bits of lacing on the way down. The aroma is extremely sweet and dominated by the Belgian yeast, bubblegum and bananas. There is only the faintest hint of hops in the nose. The hops are a little more prominent in the taste but the spices, clove mainly, really amp up the spiciness of the taste on top of the underlying Belgian yeast sweetness. The mouthfeel is highly carbonated and that, combined with the spices, really tingles the tongue in the finish. This is a decent Belgian beer though not quite as complex or drinkable as some of the better Belgians I’ve had. Decent.


 fredthecat (176), Canada
3.6 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/104/58/103/515/20
Jan 25, 2009  
a very light yeasty smell, it pours dark gold with a thick lasting frothy head. it is quite sweet and malty, tastes like honey and is nice and warm from alcohol too. it is very nice, and i have mentally had it underrated for quite some time.


Martinus (19), Nijmegen, Netherlands
3.4 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/104/57/103/513/20
Jan 24, 2009  
Popular beer amongst those who want to drink something "special", but a bit dull. Aroma of malt and yeast, taste rather sweet (honeylike) with reasonably strong hop. Poors rather easily with a good head of white, pearly foam, which deminishes to leave a white-ish hue.


 Gregis (1132), Shawnee, Kansas, USA
3.5 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/103/57/103/515/20
Jan 23, 2009  
Pours a hazy pale golden-orange with a finger of pitted, off-white head that diminishes to a thin skin. The nose is of fruity lightly spicy (clove) Belgian yeast with a supporting honey-like malt note. Light to medium-bodied with fine, soft, yet prolific carbonation, the palate finishes fairly cleanly with only a slightly spicy aftertaste. The flavor more-or-less follows the nose with a nice spicy finish. This isn’t one of those beers that blows you away, but it is one that leaves you quite satisfied. A solid Belgian ale.



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