Abbaye de St Martin Blonde / Blond / Abbey Blond
Brasserie de Brunehaut in Brunehaut, Hainaut, Belgium 🇧🇪
Belgian Style - Blonde / Pale / Amber Regular Out of Production|
Score
6.31
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Straw and golden color, crowned with a fine foam. Lively and pointed nose, with fermentation accents with a lactic touch and notes of flowery cheese. Exquisite palate, round attack, balanced and full. Elegant floral aromas. EBC 15.
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6.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 6
Bottle: Hazy orange-amber with a thin, quick, white head. Yeast, light fruit, apple aroma. Taste is sweet/tangy yeast, light fruit....apricot, apple, pear. Very delicate for the size, the sweetness increases as it warms....pleasant.
Tried
from Bottle
on 28 Jun 2015
at 08:03
6.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Bottle, 330 ml from Svijet Piva, Zagreb. Pours yellow with white head. Malty, yeasty, spicy, light fruity.
Tried
from Bottle
at
Svijet Piva
on 23 Jan 2015
at 14:10
5.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 4
Overall 5.5
The original Saint-Martin abbey beer, to which the qualification "Blonde" was added in 2007 when the brown version was born. Yeasty, estery blonde beer with moussy head, somewhat thinnish body, sweetish malts, spicy yeastiness, medium bitter finish. Very ordinary and not very balanced, but may have improved since then so I plan to re-rate this.
Tried
on 02 Dec 2014
at 12:47
7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
330 ml bottle into tulip glass, bottled in 10/2010. Pours moderately hazy/cloudy golden orange color with a 1-2 finger dense white head with good retention, that reduces to a thin cap that lingers. Nice spotty soapy lacing clings around the glass, with a moderate amount of streaming carbonation retaining the head. Aromas of lemon, orange, apricot, pear, apple, light banana, honey, bread, light clove, herbal, grass, and yeast earthiness. Nice and pleasant aromas with good balance and complexity of fruity/spicy yeast, earthy hops, and pale malt sweetness; with solid strength. Taste of lemon, orange, apricot, pear, apple, light banana, honey, bread, light clove, herbal, grass, and yeast earthiness. Slight earthy bitterness/yeast spiciness on the finish; with lingering notes of lemon, orange, apricot, pear, apple, light banana/clove, honey, bread, and herbal/yeast earthiness on the finish for a good bit. Nice robustness and complexity of fruity/spicy yeast, earthy hops, and pale malt sweetness; with a good malt/yeast balance and zero cloying sweetness after the finish. Medium carbonation and body; with a very smooth, fairly crisp, and lightly creamy mouthfeel that is good. Alcohol is well hidden with minimal warming present after the finish. Overall this is a nice Belgian blonde ale. All around good robustness and complexity of fruity/spicy yeast, earthy hops, and pale malt sweetness; and very smooth to drink for the ABV. I felt like yeast ester flavors were a bit restrained and could have been bolder. Otherwise a nicely enjoyable offering.
Tried
from Bottle
on 01 Dec 2014
at 18:24
6.3/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 6
33cl bottle. Gushed a bit. Thin creamy white head. Very hazy blond pour. An ok blond.
Tried
from Bottle
on 17 Nov 2014
at 11:51
7/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 9
Bottle @ gollem Pours clear blonde . Big white head . Smell is sweet , dusty , some copper . taste is bitter , some spices , tad sweet , malts , some buttery softness ,
Tried
from Bottle
on 21 Oct 2014
at 15:58
5.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 4
Overall 6
Just an ordinary Belgian blond beer. Fruity, yeasty and with some spices, the usual.
Tried
on 12 Jun 2014
at 03:00
6.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6
Odense drinking Belgian Beer in February. Gusher. Hazy golden with a small white head. yeasty, phenolic aroma with some bubblegum, apple and other fruity notes. Dry, spicy and fruity flavour, with some herbal hops in the finish.
Tried
on 06 Feb 2014
at 12:46
6.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Bottle @ Odense Tasting Feb. 2014. Pours pale yellow with a off white head. Yeast, grain and fruit. Clean. A whiff of alcohol. A bit of spices. Warming..
Tried
from Bottle
on 06 Feb 2014
at 12:45
7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 6.5
330 ml bottle. Pours a hazy dark gold color with full white head. Aromas of honey, dough, and malts. Flavors of stoned fruit, light yeast/banana, and honey. Quite pleasant.
Tried
from Bottle
on 17 Dec 2013
at 19:57