Valeir Blond
Contreras in Gavere, East Flanders, Belgium 🇧🇪
Belgian Style - Blonde / Pale / Amber Regular|
Score
6.82
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Top fermentation, with secondary fermentation in bottle and keg. Golden specialty beer, dry hopped (secondary addition of hop during lagering).
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6.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Bottle. Pours slightly hazy amber with abundant, stable but airy off-white head. Clear aroma of fruit, malt and caramel with regular hoppy notes. Bitter, hoppy flavour with notes of caramel malt and fruit. Bitter finish with a slightly metallic aftertaste. Good, but would be better without the metallic touch.
Tried
from Bottle
on 09 Sep 2013
at 11:38
7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Flaske delt med Egil og Steven på altanen i sommervarmen: "Ah, wonderfully fragant, crisp and dry and yet depth of flavours, a bit like Duvel" var Stevens dom, og vi underskriver dette.
Tried
on 10 Aug 2013
at 09:55
7/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 8
Bottle from bartlebier, many thanks. Hazy orange golden color withmedium persistent off-white head. Hoppy aroma, with some spices, honey, spices. Taste, malt, honey, citrus zest, hops, spices. Nice.
Tried
from Bottle
on 22 Jun 2013
at 13:45
6.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 5
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 6
Dark golden, lasting head. Grassy, sweet aroma. Roasted taste, full bodied, rather sharp bitterness.
Tried
on 21 Jun 2013
at 13:08
7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Bottle. Golden colour with a creamy white head. Aroma is fruity, yeast, malt. Flavour is caramel, fruit, malt, sweet. Long aftertaste. Somewhat bitter.
Tried
from Bottle
on 11 May 2013
at 03:35
6.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 5.5
Bottle from SB cons 2013-05-08 Göteborg AR: belgian yeast, apple (dry) cider, crops, AP: copper, frothy fizzy deminshing white head F: belgian yeast, appel cider, heavy carbonation, sec, alcoholic (Kopparberg), medium bitterness
Tried
from Bottle
on 10 May 2013
at 14:18
6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Sample at a tasting at Systembolaget, April 2013. Clear golden with a white head. Aroma and taste of citrus, malt and some notes of cardboard. Also some yeast. Drinkable but not that exciting.
Tried
on 25 Apr 2013
at 10:33
7.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Imported from my RateBeer account as Contreras Valeir Blond (by Contreras):
Aroma: 8/10, Appearance: 4/5, Taste: 7/10, Palate: 4/5, Overall: 14/20, MyTotalScore: 3.7/5
29/IX/2012 - 33cl bottle @ Contreras brewery (Gavere) with the Gentse Biervereniging - BB: 27/VII/14 (2012-1087)
Clear orange beer, big creamy white head with some bigger bubbles, pretty stable, bit adhesive. Aroma: very fruity, sweet summer fruit, peaches, some pineapple, citrus, grapefruit. MF: ok carbon, medium body. Taste: fruity start, citrus, bit of pineapple, some almonds, bitter hops, herbal. Aftertaste: pretty bitter, bit nutty, grains, nice hoppy finish.
Aroma: 8/10, Appearance: 4/5, Taste: 7/10, Palate: 4/5, Overall: 14/20, MyTotalScore: 3.7/5
29/IX/2012 - 33cl bottle @ Contreras brewery (Gavere) with the Gentse Biervereniging - BB: 27/VII/14 (2012-1087)
Clear orange beer, big creamy white head with some bigger bubbles, pretty stable, bit adhesive. Aroma: very fruity, sweet summer fruit, peaches, some pineapple, citrus, grapefruit. MF: ok carbon, medium body. Taste: fruity start, citrus, bit of pineapple, some almonds, bitter hops, herbal. Aftertaste: pretty bitter, bit nutty, grains, nice hoppy finish.
Tried
from Bottle
on 29 Sep 2012
at 10:06
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Golden colour, small white head. Aroma of citrus, malts, soap, light spicy yeast. Rather bitter hops flavour, light sweet, some soap, citrus. Light sweet finish, bitter hops.
(From 33cL bottle @ Botteltje, Oostende)
(From 33cL bottle @ Botteltje, Oostende)
Tried
from Bottle
on 20 Sep 2012
at 09:57
6.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 4
Overall 6.5
On tap at Eiderdown. Pours deep golden with small white head into a snifter. Little lacing, medium body, light carbonation, and spicy citrus aroma. Taste is spicy dry citrus and finishes bitter hops. Wouldn’t seek this again.
Tried
from Draft
on 20 Sep 2012
at 09:06