Flesje thuis gedronken. Goudgeel helder bier met matig schuim. Aroma is fruitig, de smaak fruitig en hoppig. Nasmaak is iets bitter.

Aroma 6. Appearance 4. Taste 5. Palate 3. Overall 12. Malt and sweet aroma, taste is more herbal.

Fles gekregen van Roelzie1986. Thuis geprobeerd. Het is een goudgeel bier met een volle witte schuimkraag. Het heeft een moutige geur. De smaak is moutig en zoetig.

Bottle 33cl. Clear golden color, white foam. Aroma: pilsner-malt, floral hop, slightly fruity, a few esters. Taste: pure, malt, light sweetness and fruity, a little pear with seeds, a little spirits and herbs, drinkable.

Bottle from Nisa, Hebden Bridge. Deeper golden with a thin head. Sweet tasting yeasty malts with some banana evident in its aftertaste, there's a sweetness evident in its nose too.

Botella de @Supermercado, Oviedo 09/12/2017
Tomada como brabante oro. Color amarillo con corona de espuma blanca, aromas a cereal, sabor cereal malta con notas a levadura, cuerpo medio.

Bottle, 33cl. Clear gold pouring with a medium-sized white head. Average to good retention. Aroma: overripe apples & pears, candy, cheese-like spiciness. Medium body. Average carbo. Rather sweet taste. Malty, fruity, spicy as it is offen the case with Belgian blonds. Light bitter ending. A pleasant style representative. No complains.

The blonde one in this standard Belgian abbey beer series, strange that it has escaped my attention so far as it must have been around for many a year now... Bottle from De Vidts in Sint-Niklaas. Medium thick, regularly shaped, snow white, moussy head slowly dissipating in the middle, over a clear and very purely golden blonde beer with an 'old gold' hue to it and visible strings of sparkling throughout, turning lighly hazy with sediment. Aroma of dried banana slices, old bread, freshly ironed cloth, cold omelette somewhere, dusty old coriander seed, powder sugar, dried peaches, straw, wet paper, chicken corn, honey, dried camomile flowers. Sweetish onset, banana ester with a chewing gum note to it but bearable, apple peel and slight apricot accents, dim sourishness underneath; sparkling carbonation but very standard for this style, slick and bit glueish mouthfeel. Very cereally, creamy and very soapy corn-ish middle, sweetish with residual sugars but not cloying, straightforward with a thin caramelly edge to it; leads to a very softly spicy and hoppy finish, floral as in dried field flowers or camomile tea, with minerally and metallic notes lingering and a soft, mellow end bitterish note alongside some soapy coriander - which I assume is the so-called 'gruut' they are referring to in the description. Plain, simple and hugely cliché as expected, but nothing really wrong or off-putting here; feels a tad metallic, too sweet and underhopped as usual for this kind of beers, but drinkable and in any case a lot better than Leffe Blonde or Grimbergen Blond - if you must have a taste of stereotypical Belgian blonde cloaked in a monk's frock, take this one instead of the more popular, aforementioned examples. Expected even worse, to be completely honest...