Augustijn Blond
Brouwerij Van Steenberge in Ertvelde, East Flanders, Belgium 🇧🇪
Belgian Style - Blonde / Pale / Amber Regular|
Score
6.61
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The brewery describes it commercially as follows:
Augustijn wordt al sinds 1295 gebrouwen door de paters Augustijnen in hun klooster in Gent. In de middeleeuwen brouwden en commercialiseerden veel paters en monniken hun eigen bier. Water was dikwijls verontreinigd en dus was het veiliger om bier te drinken omdat het water wordt gekookt tijdens het brouwproces.
Toen de paters Augustijnen in 1978 op zoek gingen naar een nieuwe partner voor het brouwen van hun bier, was Jozef Van Steenberge volop aan het experimenteren met hoge gistingsbieren. Jozef won de uitgeschreven wedstrijd van de paters Augustijnen. De brouwerij kreeg zo toegang tot de receptuur van dit historisch kloosterbier, maar ook tot de kennis van receptuurbeheerder Janus Jeremanus. Janus was meer dan 25 jaar lang adviseur van Brouwerij Van Steenberge en introduceerde de originele giststammen van de Augustijnen die we tot op vandaag nog steeds gebruiken.
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Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7
Old rating from 10-12-15 - As Zwijntje, 330ml bottle, 8.0 ABV brought back from Belgium. It pours a clear golden colour with a dull white head. Aromas is of malt with caramel. Tastes of wheat, some banana, orange, lemon, toasted malts, spices, caramel, & toffee. Aftertaste is of light spices, malts and a little kick from the alcohol. Overall a decent Belgium strong ale.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
Bottle. Nice beer. one of the better non-trappist abbeys. Nice spicy, fruity flavor. Smells great. If it were a little less expensive wouldn’t mind having all the time. Highly recommended.
Nisse666 (17733) reviewed Augustijn Blond from Brouwerij Van Steenberge 11 months ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7.5
Bottle thx Sam 2024-06-18 Göteborg
AR: strong Belgian yeasty, dried banana, semi sweet, sponge,
AP: bronze wee hazy, wee white lid
F: strong Belgian yeasty, dried banana, semi sweet, sponge,
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 2 | Flavor - 3 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 3.5
ok, this was crap. must be an off bottle. next to no head.aroma is skuny. flavour seems liek there might have been some fruit in there now it just skunk, yuck!
tricksta_p (13664) reviewed Augustijn Blond from Brouwerij Van Steenberge 1 year ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5
Bottle from a local department store. Aroma is lots of sweet ripe fruits, malt, sweet stone fruits such as peach and apricot, some spicy yeasty and floral notes, candied fruits. Flavour is fairly sweet and light bitter. Body is medium. Better than I expected from looking at that label art, which is pure pain. Bit heavy on the sweetness for my taste, but not bad.
Earlier Rating: 4/7/2014 Total Score: 3.3
Aroma of malts, yeast, fruits, some spices. Flavour is very yeasty, some fruity sweetness. Lively carbonation. Very nice and drinkable Blonde.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6.5
Bottle from Systembolaget. Golden. Quite sweet but typical for the style. Reminds me more of La Trappe / Dutch styles.
Andy_TF2 (1138) ticked Augustijn Blond from Brouwerij Van Steenberge 1 year ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Goozen (5556) reviewed Augustijn Blond from Brouwerij Van Steenberge 1 year ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 9
Bottle 0,33ltr: Hazy golden coloured brew with lively carbonating on the tongue. Spicy taste and well sweet bitter finish, one of the few Blonde Ale i really like.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
330ml can. Pours hazy orange with a tall white head. Aroma is yeast, spice, stone fruits. Taste is light to medium sweet, yeast, fruit, malt. Light bitter finish. Medium bodied.
MusingAnorak (11819) ticked Augustijn Blond from Brouwerij Van Steenberge 1 year ago