6.1

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

Bottle kindly donated by Benzai, many thanks. Golden color with medium white head. Citrus hops, light malt in aroma. Taste, perfumed malt, citrus hops. Drinkable, bit boring.

6.6

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6.5

Bottle. Quite balanced, easy drinking. Nothing pokes out. Good balance of slightly spicy, light light funky yeastiness, subtle honeyish maltiness, and medium-low bitterness level with light flowery grassy hops flavour. Good one, its quality mostly being its drinkability. Good nevertheless though.

7

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

Imported from my RateBeer account as Fientje (by Bryggja):
Aroma: 7/10, Appearance: 4/5, Taste: 7/10, Palate: 3/5, Overall: 14/20, MyTotalScore: 3.5/5

27/VII/16 - 33cl bottle acquired from the brewers @ home - BB: XI/2017 (2016-791)

Pretty cloudy blond beer, big aery fizzy irregular white head, stable, bit adhesive. Aroma: spicy, somewhat sour, overripe fruits, yeasty, orange peel, some bubble gum, bit of banana. MF: lively carbon, medium body. Taste: very fruity start, bit sweet, malty, some citrus, soft bitterness, yeasty, banana peel. Aftertaste: pretty bitter, little metallic, bit sweet, fruity notes, banana, almonds, bit oxidized. Unexpectedly fairly decent! (no infection from Danny this time)

6.3

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6

Bottle @ home. Hazy yellow golden color, full sized foamy white head that lasts for quite a while. Aroma is malts, some yeast, lightly herbs or spices. Taste malts, more bitter than I had expected, lightly a hint of herbs or spices, perhaps a touch of fruitpeel and fruitpeel bitter and a hint of yeast. Decent body, firm and lightly fizzy carbonation. Not bad after I got used to the mouthfeel a bit.

6.5

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

Bottle shared, not a gusher for us. Aroma of spritzy soluable aspirin with a citrus twist, yeast, fruits, orange peel and light caramel. Flavour is light to moderate sweet and moderate bitter. Medium bodied with light carbonation.

6.8

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7

33cl bottle from Willems Grobendonk. Thin creamy white head. Cloudy blond pour. light bitterness. Easy drinking

6.8

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8

Bottle. Gusher. Pours mostly foam, but hidden underneath, there is an unclear blonde beer. Smell is bit sweet ( trough yeast ) and malty. Taste is very corny, almost like eating cereal. Bit bitter as well, with a nice yeasty aroma I really like. Rather high carbo, but not as extreme as I feared.

7.4

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

Bottle from Fontana in Sint-Niklaas. A hobby brew developed by Peter De Munck and Ellen Winters from Beveren-Waas, apparently named after the brewer’s grandmother, commercialized through Danny in Erpe-Mere. Strange that in the Waasland region, these people did not opt for Boelens or Paenhuys to market their recipe... Dense and very stable, thickly lacing, creamy, off-white head over a lightly hazy ’old gold’ coloured beer with greenish hue. Acetaldehyde-rich aroma of freshly cut grass, fresh banana, raw rhubarb, gooseberry, refreshingly fragrant lemon zest, Granny Smith (or ’Granny Fientje’ in this case), field flowers, bubblegum, limoncello, strawberries, kiwi, sourdough - cliché but certainly not unpleasant and free from obvious flaws. Crisp fruity onset, banana, pineapple, gooseberry sourishness, citrus peel fraîcheur, fairly strong and minerally, tingling carbonation, smooth bready maltiness in the middle with some spicy yeasty notes on top, malty finish with a balancing, grassy and lightly peppery hop bitterness as well as some lingering yeasty fruitiness, but not overly estery. The ’noble’ hop bitterness lingers for a long time. Another stereotypical Belgian blonde but that was probably the intention anyway and if well executed, there is nothing wrong with this style, of course... Cleaner than expected, hoppier than usual for the style, ’bubblegummy’ alright but no DMS or other disturbing flavours, this is actually very well done for its particular substyle. Cliché as it may be, this is still a pleasant surprise, I wish more new Belgian blondes were technically as well executed as this one; I expected a lot less, especially considering the Kwibus beers I had from Danny’s own range. Cheers to Fientje!

7

--- Beer merged from original tick of Fientje on 06 Jan 2018 at 23:12 - Score: 8