Viven Blond

Brouwerij van Viven
Brewed at De Proefbrouwerij
Style: Belgian Ale
Sijsele, Belgium

Serve in Trappist glass, Tulip, Tumbler

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01/06/2011 33cl bottle @ home - BB: 16/3/2013 (2011-242)

Little cloudy blond yellow beer, huge creamy white head, stable and adhesive. Aroma: citrus, grassy, herbal, little bit fruity, hay. Taste: fruity (peaches and citrus), herbal, hop bitterness, cloves. Aftertaste: citrus, ripe pears, spices and nice hoppy ending. Really good blond beer.

Bottle from Beermerchants, 6.1%. Pours pale, dusted gold with torrential carbonation supporting a dense white foam. Aromas at once citrussy and a bit vegetative; baked beans, ground coriander seed, lemon sherbet, pig pen, a leaf of parsley. Fat and a little empty with a slick, coriandered (?) spiciness prevailing; light dusty notes of pepper, wheat, lemony herbs and alcohol. Light hop astringency in the finish. Bog standard, perfumey Belgian. Very drinkable.

Bottle from Beer Tempel. Golden blonde body with tall head. Nose of wheat and honey. Taste of hops, wheat and sweets. Quite nice. Enjoyable.

Bottled, 330ml, picked up at Banbury Beer Fest ’10. Hazed gold with white head. The aroma is fresh spiced lemon, this leads to a slightly candy sweetish start. however; the spiciness, cloves, coriander, work to give the beer a light, lively dryness and an Ale like quality. Fresh throughout, not bad at all.

Bottle. Hazy gold with an off-white fluffy head. Aromas are toast malts with woody notes. Mellow lemon with lots of yeast. Floral and clean. Flavours are mixed tropical fruit with toast and caramel malts. Bitter lemon with peppery notes. Dry and woody on the finish with pine and grapefruit bitterness.

(bottle, 33cl) Hazy, effervescent and pale golden coloured hue with a big and blond foamy head. Yeasty and moderately sweet malty aroma with citrus-fruity touch and spicy notes of coriander and white pepper. Sweet and slightly bitter flavour, rather light bodied with a moderate carbonation. Slightly grainy malty taste with spicy and subtle fruity notes; sweet-bitter and rounded spicy finish. 06.XII.10

Bottle, bought @ Beermerchants.com.
Pours lovely clear golden, fine streams of small bubbles reaching up towards a firm, frothy, whitehead. Looks a bit like whipped egg-whites. Subdued sweet aroma, some sugar, light pilsner malts, green apple esters, a tad dusty. Medium carbonation, fine dry and creamy mouthfeel. Flavour has mild spice, some malty sweetness, mild citric, some apple esters. Light warming. Fine blonde ale.

Bottle @ home. Aroma is dusty/old beer, faint fruit and hops. Uninteresting. Flavour is quite sweet of malt and fruit with a (too) subtle hop note. Not bad, but again uninteresting.

Bottle, home. Golden colour, very clean appearance, aroma of hay, some perfume, tastes of honey, perfume, sweet malts, some toffee in the malt, thick and doughy on the palate . a descent beer but feel mine has been ruined somehow. Just a bit too harsh for my palate. Good lacing, oily, soft carbanation and good bitterness. Long, rather bitter finish.

Bottle from Beermerchants.com, drunk on 6th July 2010. Light golden straw colour with a big white head. Dry, spicy nose with definite cloves. Very drinkable palate. Nice balance of fruity sweetness with subtle dryness. Good stuff.