Snoek Blond

Brewed by Bavik-De Brabandere
Style: Belgian Strong Ale
Harelbeke, Belgium

Serve in Trappist glass, Tulip, Tumbler

Bottle at the Snoek bar with Harrisoni, Mes and Sim and the guys from Struise. Dark gold with a medium fluffy white head. Aroma of yeast with a little spice. Similar flavour. Fairly predictable blond but nice enough.

A Mes rate. Bottle at De Snoek in Fortem.
Darkish gold with a decent white head. Aroma is wheaty and fruity with slight spice and lots of yeast. Flavour is similar, sweet and very yeasty. Quite tart and astringent. So so at best.

On tap at the Snoek bar next to the now defunct brewery. Gold, orange with thick white head. Yeasty blond aroma. It’s plain and simple and a bit hard with some metal, but fine. Fine if a bit bland and made with their lager yeast according to Urbain.

Bottle from Het Labyrinth, Kemmel, Belgium, 10-06-09 Pours hazy yellow, light carbonation and with a white clingy head. Some yeast, spice and lemon on nose. Taste is a little spicy and with some sweet lemon again, soft in mouth, touch of confectionery sweetness, quite nice stuff. A6 A4 F7 P4 Ov13 3.4

Bottled. An unclear orangey beer with a huge off-white head. The aroma is sweet fruity with notes of wheat. The flavor is sweet with powerful notes of spices, wheat, and fruit - in a weird way I don’t like.

(Bottle 25 cl) Hazy, golden with a dense and lively, shaving foam style head that leaves laces. Sweetish aroma of malt and yeast. Medium body with sweetish malt and fruit and a lightly coffeeish note. The finish is dry. 271207

25 cL bottle. Pours hazy yellow with a dense little white head. Fruity and slight malty aroma. Flavour is slight honey like, malty with a light note of something oldish. Finish is mild, no bitterness as such.

Bottle. Pours a hazy yellow with a huge creamy good lasting snow white head. Aroma of fruits and malt with a pleasant mild sweetness and slight spice. Good mouthfeel. The flavour is sweet and herby with spices and bitter hops. Well alasting herby bitter finish.