Anna
Polygoon in Tongeren, Limburg, Belgium 🇧🇪
Brewed at/by: Brouwerij Den ToetëlèrBelgian Style Regular
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Score
6.51
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Alengrin (11609) reviewed Anna from Polygoon 5 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
The first Polygoon beer, a client brewery in Limburg that has been active for a couple of years now; blonde hopped with Columbus (the other varieties listed here are not mentioned anywhere on the label, at least not in its current form) and - sigh - spiced with coriander... Towerning high, egg-white, very mousy, fluffy, uneven-bubbled, thickly plaster-like lacing head over a misty peach blonde beer with pale orangey tinge and fierce sparkling everywhere, sustaining the head for a long time. Aroma - from what pierces through the few centimeters of head - of freshly baked 'petit beurres', dried lemon peel and even a whiff of lemongrass, dusty dry straw bales, gravel, pineapple touch, unripe peach, increasingly bright orange and tangerine when warming up, baking soda and baker's yeast, freshly cut grass, some soapy coriander seed in the background but less obvious than I feared, sweet hints of cooked red apple and honey. Spritzy, crisp onset, lots of minerally carbonation (with somewhat numbing effect), restrainedly sweet notes of red apple, peach and pineapple, slight sourish undertone accentuated by the (over)carbonation, slick and lean body. Cracker- and dry cookie-ish maltiness, cereally with a very light sweetish core to it but generally on the drier side, which is quickly underscored by the hops, providing quite early, long-lasting, peppery and somewhat grapefruity bitterness; the spiciness of the hops even overrules the coriander, which remains limited to only a vague background echo here, even if this echo does resonate for a while. Some light breadiness in the end, while this juicy, altogether gentle but well-measured hop bitterness lasts and pushes up retronasal impressions of old dried orange peel, straw and field flowers. The pepperiness of the hops lingers beyond all the rest, but remains relatively friendly - though it is certainly a lot more assertive than is typically the case in a Belgian blonde, which for me is a plus in this kind of beers; they also provide a lovely citrusy aromatic quality which comes off as very 'postmodern' and international, almost to the point where APA could even be more appropriate as a stylistic characterization than Belgian blonde ale. Then of course there is the coriander, which I personally would simply omit, but seen from a Belgian perspective, this is definitely an elegant, pleasant and highly drinkable ale to me - if all those new blondes were like this, I would be less annoyed by all those would-be brewers coming up with old school clichés. Accessible, nicely streamlined and modern without any technical flaws, this is certainly promising for the rest of Polygoon's range. Cheers Niels!
jefverstraete (7489) reviewed Anna from Polygoon 7 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Bottle from Willems, Grobbendonk. Hazy yellow colour, white foam. Light citrussy, tart, some sweetness, bit hay, soapy. Ok beer.
mike_77 (15875) reviewed Anna from Polygoon 7 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
Clear pale blond colour with thin lacy head. Aroma and flavour have the light tropical fruit profile of a Session IPA. Very soft texture aided by the wheat. Light dryness in the finish.
Inoven (3737) reviewed Anna from Polygoon 8 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Flesje gedeeld door Benzai. Goudgeel troebel bier. Weinig aroma. Smaak is licht hoppig en hooiachtig. Weinig nasmaak.
TomHendriksen (8176) reviewed Anna from Polygoon 8 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
Fles gedeeld door Benzai, geprobeerd met Inoven. Het is een troebel geel bier met een volle witte schuimkraag. Het heeft een moutige licht hoppige geur. De smaak is moutig en licht bitter.
Benzai (24515) reviewed Anna from Polygoon 8 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 4
Bottle @ tasting shared with TomHendriksen and Inoven. Slightly unclear yellow color, average to medium sized white head. Smell and taste malts, a slight hint of hops but in general very boring. Not a lot of flavor, a bit bitter and malty. Maybe only one teaspoon of centennial and columbus? Average to medium carbonation. Meh.