For a Belgium beer, it's below average for sure. The bitterness feels off to me. But still decent overall. BierCab Barcelona. ---Rated via Beer Buddy for iPhone

Belgian blonde ale as interpreted by Naparbier - with a macabre label I’d rather associate with other styles than a blonde, but anyway. Bubbly but well-structured and regularly shaped, off-white head breaking quickly and eventually disappearing except for a string of small bubbles around the edge, pale yellow blonde robe with greenish hue, vividly sparkling, as good as clear but with a fine haze of minuscule yeast dots divided throughout; becomes a bit more ochre-hued and misty with yeast sediment added. Aroma of candied banana and even ’Belgian’ bubblegum (isoamylacetate), lemon zest, limoncello, raw rhubarb, slight orange, green apple (acetaldehyde, in other words) but sweet red apple as well, honey, pineapple, freshly grated ginger, sweetbread, white pepper, chamomile, soap, dry cookies, yellow grapefruit peel. Fruity onset with banana effect of isoamylacetate accompanied by a soft gooseberry- and green kiwi-like sourishness, hints of pineapple, mandarin and yellow plum, lively carbonation, minerally and spritzy fitting in quite well but still numbing the tongue a bit initially; slick, light body, honeyish and somewhat grainy malt sweetishness, while spicy yeasty hints develop and the fruity esters linger. Gradually increasing (noble) hop character towards the finish, ending in a peppery bitterness extending over a pretty long distance (at least for the style) but allowing fruity esters and malt sweetness to pass through, while at the same time yielding delicate sweet floral (chamomile) aromas retronasally. Far from my favorite style - probably because I had a few dozens too many already - with the ubiquitous banana ester probably being a tad too pronounced, even though many Belgian blondes which are actually made in Belgium, have this feature, which you either love or hate, to an even greater extent and the earthy ’European’ hop bitterness does make up for it in drying the finish to a certain extent. Certainly not bad, in fact a lot of blonde ales in Belgium could learn from its explicit hop bitter tail, which is often all but vestigial in other Belgian blondes - making them unpleasantly sweet and one-sided. Above average for a style defined by averageness, let’s say.

Bottle @ LIBF’16. Shared with the RB Belgian team. Dorée, col fin blanc. Arôme est finement houblonné offrant pas mal d’agrumes, pamplemousse, pointe de pin en rétro. Grains et levure gardent plus un rétro discret mais qui complètent bien les houblons. Palais est sec, agrumes et houblons. Malt caramel pour effervescence moyenne-haute. L’usage de levure belge est plaisant et tranche bien avec des houblons qui changent un peu des sempiternels nobles. D’aventure je mise sur un léger ester.

Imported from my RateBeer account as Naparbier Oneka (by Naparbier):
Aroma: 7/10, Appearance: 2/5, Taste: 7/10, Palate: 3/5, Overall: 14/20, MyTotalScore: 3.3/5

16/V/16 - sample @ Leuven Innovation - BB: n/a (2016-600) Thanks to the Belgian RB crew for sharing today's beers!

Clear pale yellow beer, small irregular off-white head, unstable, non adhesive. Aroma: fruity, some banana, peach, bit sweet. MF: ok carbon, medium body. Taste: sweet, bit malty, lots of banana, little sourish, soft bitterness. Aftertaste: banana, sugary, bitter touch, metallic, green banana.

F: average, white, not long lasting. C: yellowish, light hazy. A: malty, citrus, coriander, orange peels, yeast. T: malty, grapefruits, grassy, floral, orange peels, light earthy, tangerine, spicy, medium body, good carbonation, 0,33l bottle from Leuven Innovation Beer Festival May 2016.

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Sampled from tap at ’Craft & Draft’. Slightly hazy, straw yellow with a thin, white head. Sweetish, slightly fruity and yeasty-spicy aroma of banana, lemon, some grapefruit, cloves and some vanilla. Sweetish, slightly fruity and yeasty-spicy taste of banana, peach, grapefruit, clove, lemon and some vanilla, followed by a short, slightly bitter, yeasty-spicy finish. Thin to medium body, slightly effervescent mouthfeel, soft to average carbonation. Nice!

Draught @ Cerveceria Freiburg, Barcelona. Pours dark yellow with a creamy white head. Aroma of malt, belgian yeast, light sourness, hay, light tart fruit. Flavor is light sourness, light malt, wheat, yeast, tart fruity, green grapes. Medium body, average carbonation, light tart finish. 280416

33cl Bottle from Vonk, bb 12-2015. Hazy golden yellow colour, white head. Aroma of citrus, tropical fruits, Belgian yeast, fruity, light malty, light tart. Flavour is light sweet, light tart, some tropical fruit sourness, light malty, spicy, Belgian yeast, bitter finish. Light bodied.