B17 Sterk Blond
Brouwbar in Gent, East Flanders, Belgium 🇧🇪
Belgian Style - Strong Ale Regular|
Score
6.72
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Bierridder (4353) reviewed B17 Sterk Blond from Brouwbar 6 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
16/06/2019 @home - 33cl bottle from a trade with tderoeck. Clear dark orange, medium light tanned head. Nose is malts, fruits, sourish touch. Taste is malts, banana, melon, bit citrus, nasty sourish touch. Doesn't seem OK to me.
nathanvc (7053) reviewed B17 Sterk Blond from Brouwbar 7 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
7 March 2019. At Brouwbar, Ghent. Shared with the lovely Anke! Pours clear pale golden with a lasting, small, frothy, off-white head. Aroma of apple sauce (also apparent in the first Blonde), apricot, flowers, soap, pineapple slice, banana peel, jenever, weirdly some green cabbage (but not in an off-putting DMS kind of way). Taste is light to medium fruity sweet, apple, pear & apricot resting on a bready malty base; medium spicy bitter middle offers clove & pepper, 'bitter' white grape, some yeast, a sourish accent of wheat & lemon, even a bit flowery. Dryish, floral & slightly peppery hoppy finish, lingering yeast, bread, ripe yellow fruits, nice dash of warming alcohol (white wine-like to me). Medium body, creamy texture, fizzy carbonation. Well-made and quite complex, I prefer it over the B03.
tderoeck (22946) reviewed B17 Sterk Blond from Brouwbar 7 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Imported from my RateBeer account as Brouwbar B17 Sterk Blond (by Brouwbar):
Aroma: 7/10, Appearance: 3/5, Taste: 6/10, Palate: 3/5, Overall: 12/20, MyTotalScore: 3.1/5
Damn backlog, could've been first! Twice! Scores are the average of two different tastings, one from bottle (much better) and one from the tap (not so good).
23/XII/18 - 33cl bottle from Brouwbar (Gent), shared with Bouvier @ home, BB: 12/V/19 - (2018-2010)
Ar: 7, Ap: 3, T: 7, P:4, O: 13, Total: 3.4/5
Clear dark orange beer, small creamy off-white head, unstable, falls down quickly, bit adhesive. Aroma: very fruity, melons, banana, citrus, some grapefruit, sweetish. MF: ok carbon, medium to full body. Taste: sweet, fruity, lots of alcohol, ripe banana, bit oxidized, honey, pretty sugary. Aftertaste: soft bitterness, lots of ripe banana, alcohol, sweet, malty, honey, bit oxidized, some marzipan, nice stuff!
17/I/19 - on tap @ Brouwbar (Gent), BB: n/a - (2019-xxx)
Ar: 6, Ap: 3, T: 5, P: 3, O: 11, Total: 2.8/5
Clear to little cloudy orange beer, big creamy yellowish head, stable, bit adhesive. Aroma: fruity, little soapy, floral, lemony touch, some solvent, medicinal and chemical. MF: ok carbon, medium body. Taste: malty, fruity, pears and apples, little sweet, alcohol, bit chemical. Aftertaste: some tannins, soft acidity, pretty dry, some acetone, solvent, fruity, apricots, bitter touch.
Alengrin (11675) reviewed B17 Sterk Blond from Brouwbar 7 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
New version of Brouwbar’s B03 Blond, this one dubbed “sterk blond” (strong blonde) instead of just “blond” – even if it is only an insignificant 0.3% stronger… Anyway, thanks Benjamin for the – still unlabelled – bottle! Eggshell-white, bit thinnish and slowly dissipating, irregularly lacing head nevertheless remaining stable around the edge, over a misty deep orangey (almost amberish) peach blonde beer. Fragrant, sweet aroma of warm apple cake, ripe pineapple, dried mango, strawberry jam, cantaloupe melon, brandy, marmalade, biscuit, white port, freshly baked bread, cinnamon. Sweet onset, teeming with sweet, ripe fruits, ripe nectarine, Doyenné pear, cantaloupe melon, peach, softly carbonated, rounded, bit vinous, eventually ‘fluffy’ body; lovely sweet biscuity middle with a delicate honeyish and sugar water-like sweetness on top, lovely breadiness in the end (yeast) with some spicy phenols (cloves and a dash of cinnamon) and a pronounced, cognac-like alcohol glow accentuating the sweetness. Hops, however, remain limited to a subtle floral bitterish touch. Feels a bit boozier than the original B03 (in spite of the ABV being close to the same) but in all, this is a different beer altogether, with more emphasis on fruity-yeasty sweetness – very expressive in this case, to the point where it becomes almost Belgian style barleywine-like. Enjoyed it a lot – and so did the girlfriend, so this will be the first one on my list next time I visit this lovely brewpub.