Drakendoder Blond
Brouwerij Cornelissen in Opitter, Limburg, Belgium 🇧🇪
Belgian Style Regular Out of Production|
Score
6.30
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Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 6
08/07/2015 @home, 33cl bottle from a trade with tderoeck. Blond colour with small white head. Malts, yeast, banana, a bit too sweet.
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 6.5 | Flavor - 6.5 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7
Clear to hazy medium golden colour, big creamy off-white head, good retention, thick lacing. Sweet malty aroma, caramel, banana, butterscotch, yeasty, dough. Soft taste medium sweet, slightly bitter. Medium body, oily to creamy texture, soft carbonation, aftertaste soft bittersweet, banana, all in all an atypical but decent ale.
Alengrin (11609) reviewed Drakendoder Blond from Brouwerij Cornelissen 11 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 4.5
Named after the patron saint of the municipality of Bree, this was the first of the two Drakendoders being commercialized now. Courtesy of tderoeck. Lightly hazy ’old gold’ colour with vivid sparkling under a medium thick, lacing, off-white head. Aroma reminds me of a caramel-enhanced lager: butterscotch, some biscuit, some cheese, some grass, cookie dough, tons of iron, hint of banana, cheap whisky, peanuts, freshly baked white bread. Taste is more of the same: fairly neutral at first, with a sharp, tingling, minerally carbonation, subdued dried fruitiness seeming to come more from the basic malts than from fermentation, vaguely sweetish; then residual caramel syrup sets in, white bread malt sweetness too, popcorn, explicitly metallic, leading to a simple finish of lingering, bready and lightly toasted maltiness, iron, a touch of ’clean’, wodka-like alcohol and some straightforward grassy hop bitterishness. I dare pose the same question as with the dark version: is this really an ale? I mean, come on, this brewery even makes a sweet cherry beer out of its lagers... To me, this is an Euro strong pale lager like their Ops-Ale, nothing more, nothing less - but in that context, not the worst of its kind. "Ale", sir? I don’t buy it.
tderoeck (22711) reviewed Drakendoder Blond from Brouwerij Cornelissen 11 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5
Imported from my RateBeer account as Drakendoder Blond (by Brouwerij Cornelissen):
Aroma: 6/10, Appearance: 3/5, Taste: 6/10, Palate: 3/5, Overall: 10/20, MyTotalScore: 2.8/5
22/XII/14 - 33cl bottle @ home - BB: 16/V/16 (2014-1521) Thanks to Marc for getting me this bottle!
Clear copper blond beer, big creamy off-white head, pretty stable, bit adhesive. Aroma: very sweet, sugary, quite some banana, yeasty touch, some orange peel. MF: ok carbon, medium body. Taste: little sourish, bit grassy, citrus, bitter hops, little fruity. Aftertaste: bit of banana, pretty metallic, soft bitterness, bit grassy, yeast.
Benzai (24515) reviewed Drakendoder Blond from Brouwerij Cornelissen 11 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Bottle @ weekly tasting shared by Thompson. Clear light orange to golden color, full sized rough white head that lasts for quite a while. Smell and taste malts, a hint of yeast, lightly sweetish with a decent bitter finish. Decent body and firm carbonation. Decent.