Ostalgia Blonde
Hopfenstark in Lavaltrie, Quebec, Canada 🇨🇦
Golden / Blonde Ale Regular|
Score
7.02
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Maverick (5074) reviewed Ostalgia Blonde from Hopfenstark 10 months ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6.5
12 oz bottle. Lots of head, pale gold, floral aroma, sweet taste. Very good blonde.
Robinvboyer (8037) reviewed Ostalgia Blonde from Hopfenstark 1 year ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
another great golden ale from quebec. Great bready malts, and grains, with some solid hopping. Medium body, and good carb.
jcwattsrugger (14787) reviewed Ostalgia Blonde from Hopfenstark 12 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
12oz bottle-trade with jtclockwork-big white-hazy pale yellow. A-lt malt, citrus-lemon, apple skin. T-spice/citrus hops, lt malt.
solidfunk (21946) reviewed Ostalgia Blonde from Hopfenstark 12 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Not exactly a typical blonde beer. Pours golden with ok lacing, some head. Some interesting helles-like aroma in malt. Finishes with light sweet malt. Average carbonation. Very grainy. Tap at new brewpub.
thegreenrooster (7275) reviewed Ostalgia Blonde from Hopfenstark 12 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Pour is a cloudy blonde with a huge white head. Aroma is some lagerish bready malts with a noble hop. Flavor is somewhat fruity but also a bit grassy hop bitterness. The malt is bone dry but adds a little honey after the swallow. This is a good beer with some lager notes along with a nice ale yeast. Not 90 percentile good but better than the average blonde ale.
jtclockwork (20061) reviewed Ostalgia Blonde from Hopfenstark 12 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5
Bottle from State Line. Pours cloudy gold with big fluffy white head. Nose and taste of freshly baked bread, fresh sugared cereal, citrus, pear, pie crust, yeast and spicy grassy hops. Soft carbonation. Medium body. Really nice balance. The best beer I’ve ever had in this style by far. I usually hate this style, but I wanted more of this. In fact, I might drive 3 hours just to get another bottle. It’s just that good.
Dandeman (2711) reviewed Ostalgia Blonde from Hopfenstark 13 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
On tap at Vice-Versa in Montreal. Aroma: Citrus with orange zest and a touch of cereal. Nose could stick out more. Appearance: Traditional gold blond with small head sticking to glass with nice lacing. Taste: Attack with spicy notes with citrus and orange coming back. Texture is between light and average. This beer is OK but under my expectations for this reputed brewery.
mcberko (47456) reviewed Ostalgia Blonde from Hopfenstark 13 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5
12 oz. bottle, pours a cloudy blonde with a humungous frothy white head with good lacing. Aroma is very wheaty, with loads of freshly baked bread, some dough, cereal, and hay - very fresh nose. Flavour is fruity, something the nose didn't give off, with notes of banana, lemon and green apples, which is then overtaken by the prominent notes of hay, freshly baked bread and loads of cereal malt. Rather flavourful for being a 5% blond, a style that is usually bland and generic. Dry and soft mouthfeel, with a wonderful amount of fruitiness that makes this very refreshing. Most excellent thirst quencher with lots of depth and complexity. Surprisingly awesome.
BMan1113VR (8090) reviewed Ostalgia Blonde from Hopfenstark 13 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6.5
Bottle (brand new bottle to our market, date code seems to indicated 01/12). Pours with a lightly hazed, very pale, straw yellow hued body with a large and lasting white head. Aromas are quite estery with some acetaldehyde and straw. Lots of apple, baked bread, pear, grassy hop. Bready and toasty malt. Cidery. Flavors are malty and bready, medium sulfur and cleaner than the nose. Medium assertive bitterness with a lightly grassy hop character. Toasted and bready malt flavors compete. Carbonation is high ( what seems like above 2.8 volumes of CO2). Medium estery, lightly cidery, some alcohol. I was looking forward to this, but I am pretty disappointed. Medium-thin body. Dry.
Theydon_Bois (46224) reviewed Ostalgia Blonde from Hopfenstark 13 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
IP trade in Montreal for this bottle - thanks to Patrick, drank in Apr ’12. Poured from a 341 ml bottle into a tulip glass to a slightly hazed golden colour with a medium white head. A grassy nose with yeast notes, citrus, malt an spice coming across. Taste wise bready malts, a lemony hop bitterness, honey and a yeast flavour similar to that found in a saison. Medium body and carbonation with a clean finish. Overall and enjoyable beer crisp and refreshing, almost ’helles meets saison’ !