Blonde Bie
Brouwerij de Bie in Wakken, West Flanders, Belgium 🇧🇪
Belgian Style - Strong Ale Regular|
Score
5.58
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tricksta_p (13664) reviewed Blonde Bie from Brouwerij de Bie 11 months ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 3 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 2.5
Aroma of rotten fruits, yeast, boiled vegetable. Flavour is medium sweet and a bit acidic. Not good.
Harrisoni (26233) reviewed Blonde Bie from Brouwerij de Bie 3 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5
Bottle from Dranken Vandewoude and drunk at home. Orange gold colour lasting white head ok aroma. some yeast aroma and flavour . not the best beer. bit disappointed.
Rubin77 (10187) reviewed Blonde Bie from Brouwerij de Bie 4 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
33cl bottle from ABS Drinks near Herent. Foam is medium, white, average retention. Colour is gold, hazy with yeasty debris. Aroma is burned sugar, vaguely fruity, DMS touch, caramel, honey, orange peels, spicy. Taste is medium malty base, vaguely fruity, bready, spicy, yeasty, medium carbonation, dough touch, nothing menorable here.
DSG (25977) reviewed Blonde Bie from Brouwerij de Bie 6 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 4.5
Bottle sample at a tasting at Yoav's place. Hazy golden. Phenolic, bubblegum, some fruitiness, alcohol, yeast, sweetish, spicy, bitterish note.
nathanvc (6963) reviewed Blonde Bie from Brouwerij de Bie 6 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5
Bottle from a Carrefour in Bruges. Pours hazy ochre with a lasting, small, foamy, off-white head; lots of lacing. Aroma of yeast, spices, perfume, white bread, apple peel, banana, apricot. Taste is light fruity sweet, estery banana, ripe apple & pear, quickly quite phenolic, peppery & bitter with residual white sugar & bread underneath. Dry, earthy hoppy finish, very spicy, apparent phenols, yeast, ripe fruit, warming dash of vodka-like alcohol. Medium body, oily texture, fizzy carbonation. Off-balance, too spicy, but still drinkable.
Bierkoning (17699) reviewed Blonde Bie from Brouwerij de Bie 6 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Bottle. Golden color, hazy. Honey and a hint of citrus in the aroma. Malty sweet, honeyish citric flavor, slightly alcoholic. Decent.
Dirk Ramaekers (800) ticked Blonde Bie from Brouwerij de Bie 8 years ago
beerhunter111 (50581) reviewed Blonde Bie from Brouwerij de Bie 8 years ago
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 3 | Flavor - 3 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 5
33cl bottle. A clear deep golden beer with a small white head. Mild sweet grainy malty aroma, corn. Taste of medium sweet strong malt, grainy malt, cereals, soft metallic hops, meh...
Alengrin (11609) reviewed Blonde Bie from Brouwerij de Bie 8 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5
Bottle from the Prik & Tik in Zele, strange I never encountered this before, as it seems to have been added to the De Bie range twelve years ago already. Medium thick, off-white, regularly shaped head, settling quickly into a moussy rim and some flat ’islands’ in the middle, some basic lacing, over a lightly hazy, deeply ’old gold’ coloured beer with warm orangey hue and even a very vague greenish tinge, turning into an equally misty peach with sediment added. Aroma dominated by a very high degree of DMS (overcooked cabbage) and even strong FFF (freshly fermented farmland - which I tend to associate more with Belgian dark ales than blonde ones), cooked turnip, chicken broth, cloves, damp earth, rotting pumpkin flesh, some stewed pear, soggy white bread, dried flowers, peach and banana to even slight bubblegum underneath but the DMS ruins everything. Tastes fortunately a bit better than it smells: fruity onset with a dash of banana ester but certainly not over the top as is so often the case in this category of beers, hints of peach, raw pineapple and red apple with a very softly sourish gooseberry touch, fizzy carbonation (a bit overcarbonated even), minerally side notes, a tad numbing on the tip of the tongue. Smooth, slick body, feeling less ’full’ than what I tend to expect from an 8% Belgian but probably ’lightened’ by the fizzy carbonation; the fruity esters, especially peach and pineapple but fortunately less so banana, travel downwards over a supple, smooth, very lightly caramelly malt sweetish body with drier grainy edges, to a malty and phenolic finish, too phenolic in fact even for a tripel, with this sharpish carbo still fizzing away on the root of the tongue; hop bitterness remains limited to a floral, earthy bitterish touch, malts and some esters remain and after all this has passed - and luckily only after - a glow of warming, ’jenever’-like but altogether pretty well hidden alcohol appears. Older bottle for sure, with embryonic but unmistakable signs of that chicken broth-like oxidation coming up - the worst form of oxidation imaginable in a beer, but probably not a great beer to begin with, considering the enormous amount of DMS which completely destroys it for me, being highly sensitive to that repulsive substance. Could do with a bit more maltiness and a somewhat heavier body - clearly white candi sugar syrup has been applied to induce alcohol formation in accordance with old Belgian practice - but admittedly the alcohol remains well hidden for an 8% beer. Tastes better than it smells, in this form at least, but being able to reconstruct how it must taste young (based on experience), I am not inclined to go out and look for a fresh bottle of this. I liked some of De Bie’s creations and a vintage Zatte Bie of 15 years old tasted fine a few weeks ago, but they have some misfits too and this to me is clearly among those.
jefverstraete (7489) reviewed Blonde Bie from Brouwerij de Bie 10 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Bottle as a gift. Hazy yellow, white foam. Nose of banana, caramel, yeasty and metallic. Sweet and alcoholic. Light bitter finish.