Moinette Blonde

Pours very hazy gold with an enormous creamy ivory head, even from a gentle pour. Head is thick and lacy as hell. Smell is yeasty and very fruity. Muscat grapes and hints of chardonnay. Very winey nose. Light spiciness, cloves and/or cinnamon. Damn this beer has a bite to it! Dry and bittersweet fruitiness. Alcohol flavors. A strident bitterness but not form hops as far as I can tell. Can’t put my finger on that taste but it dominates the palate. Almost like Campari? Juniper berries? Spicy clove in there. taste is nothing like the smell. Amazing complexity. Bitter and smooth. Sweet in the nose and dry on the tongue. really excellent. Could have stood to be aged and I really wasn’t expecting that from this brew. Lingering dry btterness stays around forever.Been wanting to try this for awhile and it has definitely peaked my interest to go back for more.

bottle, pours a nice golden with an orange glow that seems to come from deep within the beer. there is a huge white head the lacing is supurb. the smell coming from this beautiful looking beer is wonderful. full of spice and fruity notes. apricot and malt. i am sitting here listening to johnny cash with my nose as far into the glass as possable. now i take a sip. wow. dusty, malty, lightly sour,fruit and spice. what a wonderful beer.

Draugh. Pale orange colour with a medium white head. Sweet fruity aroma and a sweet spicy fruity taste. Medium body and a sweet dry light alcoholic finish.

(on tap) Mild pear-nose, kind of floating up the nose, cosy. Very soft mouthfeel; still fruity, the foamfeeling is really big, like whiped cream. Mellows out sweetly.

330ml bottle-Well, im entering this beer as the Blonde even though the bottle just said "moinette" and smelled like a banyard. pours a hazy orange hue with tons of carbonation and a huge fluffy head. aroma of banyard, horseblanket bigtime with subtle honey and cirtic tones and alot of spices (corriander, ginger). lots of brett in this beer as well to give it that funk. Lots of disty esters begin the flavors followed by nice subtle spice nots of corriander and honey. This is a pretty complex beer that i would definately try again knowning exactly what it is the next time.

Bitter nad spicy tripel that is much more to my liking than sweeter example of the style. Hops predomiant the initial palate with good grass and pepper notes. Some candy sugar flavors are evident with a good amlt body. Pears and a touch of green apple come in toward the end with a good bitter finish.

At ’t Brugs Beertje, 75 cl bottle. Outstanding hazy, warm-yellow beer with good livelyness and with a very nice creamy off white head. Great refresshing aroma’s of dry malts, some citrus-peel, yeast and i think cascade hops. Nose is rich, very well balanced and ends with this fine herbal hoppy nose. Taste is smooth and light at the same time. The refresshing round taste and the suptile bitterness are in perfect harmony. the alcohol is so well integrated in this pure and traditional brew.

Sweet, fruity aroma, pale malt, plums, hay, bubblegum. Slightly hazy golden color. Flavor matches the aroma plus an herbal hop character and some yeasty funk, finishes dry and actually slightly bitter. Medium light body, lively. Its tough to categorize these Belgians - this is somewhere between a tripel and a saison, though. Crisp, dry and refreshing yet complex and interesting.