Queue de Charrue Blonde

Brewed by Brasserie Du Bocq
Style: Belgian Ale
Purnode-Yvoir, Belgium

Serve in Trappist glass, Tulip, Tumbler

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Clear golden blond coloured beer with small white head and lots of carbonation. Spicy yeasty aroma. Full sparkling palate. Finish is sweet hoppy spiced.

Huge, somewhat fluffy yellowish head over well-carbonated, clear copperish-golden beer. Initially bit creamy nose, very discreet; later more pungent grassy-weedy notes. Soggy, dough-like malt taste, slightly toasted. Unappetizing. Certain, unpleasant stickyness; light to medium bodied, somewhat oily. Certain mineral water quality. Beerfactory Du Bocq at its worst. I hate myself writing it, but it’s just worth a tick.

33cl bottle @ home. Slightly unclear orange color, small to medium sized off-white head. Smell malts, yeasty and overripe fruits. Taste malts, some fruits: plums, prume, apricot and some sweet-bitter finish. Low to medium, very fizzy carbo, low to medium body.

33cl bottle. Light gusher. Dorée claire, col blanc épais collant au verre. Arôme est houblonné, citronné, pointe d’agrumes et épices. En bouche, malt léger, houblonné et levure en pointe, garde ce profile pils sur une brève amertume en fin de bouche, fruité voire douce sucrée allant sur abricot. Fini conserve cette levure et une pointe d’épice rappelant la coriandre.

UPDATED: JUN 21, 2012 33cl, from De Hopduvel Gent, not complex brew, malty/spicy and slightly bitter/sweet, balanced, clear, rocky head, nice brew

33cL bottle. Nothing remarkable. Aroma is barely present, but OK (I don’t have the strongest sniffer though). Appearance is hazy gold, builds a nice head, dissipates quickly. Taste is a little disappointing, I was expecting more I guess. Not really fruity, medium body, a little bitter, unremarkable. I’d leave it on the shelf.

Bottle @ home. Darker blond coloured beer with lots of carbonation and a medium white head. Rather malty hinted aroma with some short fruity and hoppy hints. Full palate. Finish is bitter sweet balanced malty with a longer fruity malty sweet ending. Not bad.

from Au Grain d’Orge, Courrendlin - clear bronze beer under a very foamy white head; nice lace; aroma of pear and perfumy hops; slightly yeasty; a bit chewy palate, some sweetness and a good malt backbone, no bitterness; perfumy aftertaste with notes of apples

Sep 2010: Brown 25cl bottle, slightly out of date (by 3 months). Poured into a Hoegaarden Grand cru stemmed tulip glass, without any sediment leaving the bottle. This is another one of those ’label beers’, no brewery, just contracted out with the name ’Ploegsteert’ as a front. This is the third in the set I’ve reviewed. Snow white bubbley head on top of a lagerlike golden, bright body. Very little aroma, even as the beer warmed. Mostly alcohol esters with maybe hints of Belgian yeasts if I sniff really hard. The taste seems to be more alcohol than anything else, a bit like those strong lagers that have no flavour but give you a huge headache. Not impressed, better than the Du Bocq brewed Queue De Charrue Amber, but not as good as the Queue De Charrue Brune, which is brewed by Verhaeghe.

Pours a nice golden yellow color. Aromas of malts, a tiny touch of hops, and honey sweetness. Flavor is sorta hoppy and then goes sweet, too sweet.