Troubadour Blond

This cloudy dark blonde beer poured with a large beige head and some floaties. There is a butterscotch aroma and a sweet and sour caramel flavor, as well as a spicy, almost peppery finish. It’s an interesting brew

Bottle, best by 25/06/10. Poured golden with a tall pillow white head that settled to a ring with time and left light lacing. Aromas of caramel, dark fruits, and butterscotch. The flavor had dark fruits, brown sugar, and spice. Medium body, sweet, and smooth. Nice!

Bottle from Bierkoning. Dark body with plenty of head. Nice malty nose. Sweet and refreshing. Spicyness in the finish.

Cloudy, dark gold with a thick white head. Aroma of spice, malt fruitiness. Pear, apricot, sugar, caramel. Sweet and spicy with a hint of nutmeg, perhaps. Different, but good.

This wandering minstrel reached Australia from Belgium via Denmark five years ago and languished in a corner of my beer rack as forlorn and forgotten as whatever hopeless CD my sister sent for Xmas that year. An unfair comparison, it turns out, for this Belgian ale has weathered the ravages of time better than LCD Soundsystem, Bloc Party, the Kaiser Chiefs or whoever else flickered briefly in 2005 and faded. After four years, Troubadour Blond had evolved/devolved into a swirling maelstrom of proteins adrift in a caramel-coloured universe. A sticky-sweet aroma spoke of gingered pears, toffee apples and fresh-mown hay. An oily customer. With any real hop character long since dissipated, the malt profile dominated - sticky toffee pudding with a late seasoning of clove to spice up the swallow. Very easy on the senses - more like the Carpenters than Bloc Party and nowhere near as fucking irritating as Kaiser Chiefs (Devils! Get off my Ipod and never again soil my earplugs with your naggingly catchy ear-candy.) Overall, this is a decent ale, undeservedly ignored. ( 33cl bottle courtesy of Papsoe - thanks buddy. Bottled 10/09/04)

Bomber

Pours a nice golden orange, crisp hoppy aroma wit tropic fruit. Flavor of orange and clove, bready malt present but not forefront, juicy with a reasonably strong hop profile given the style. Nice example and underrated on the site in my opinion.

Hazy gray-yellow. Ok head. More of a hop note in the aroma than many Belgians, definitely has some pilsner-like qualities. Fizzy.

This is a really solid brew for me. Pours a light golden yellow with a big, pillowy white head. Nose has chardonnay, green grapes, a bit of peach, Belgian yeast strains and some spiciness. Effervescent flavor, a bit on the dull side, with more hops showing through than the aroma lets on. Nice - refreshing. I like it.