Blonde Bries
Pure Range Beers in Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium 🇧🇪
Brewed at/by: Unknown Origin - Belgium (Onbekende Brouwer / Brasseur Inconnu)Belgian Style - Tripel Regular
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6.53
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Alengrin (11609) reviewed Blonde Bries from Pure Range Beers 5 years ago
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 6
Tripel with spelt, created by a hobby brewing initiative in Borgerhout (Antwerp), gone commercial in early 2019; although they admit that the commercial volumes, sold in various beer shops and pubs in and around the city of Antwerp, are not produced in-house, they refuse to disclose where the beer is actually brewed so until we find out, and I am determined to do so, I guess we have no choice but to grant them their own entry here (I thoroughly hate this - mentioning the physical brewery should be obligatory and reinforceable by law, not just in Belgium but everywhere!). Thick and frothy, off-white, irregularly lacing, stable head on an initially lightly hazy, 'old gold' coloured beer with sparse sparkling, turning misty and more ochre-tinged with sediment. Aroma of homemade apple juice but freshly so, old bread, coriander seed, spelt bread indeed, banana peel, field flowers, cooked parnsip, kiwi, some faint DMS in the background. Sweet onset, banana ester, ripe pear, pineapple, medium carb with smooth and full mouthfeel; some honeyish residual sugariness lingering over a soapy-wheaty middle (clearly the spelt speaking) with clean-bready edge, spiced by coriander seed accentuating the spelt soapiness, and hopped by a floral, soft and brief hop bitterness. A warming, calvados-like alcohol glow rounds things off but does not become too harsh. Soft, sweet, gentle tripel - too soft for me, even the use of spelt does not manage to set this apart from the vast hordes of perfectly interchangeable, sweet and accessible tripels for the masses flooding Belgium these days. More or less correct technically speaking, but again so damn predictable - and point off for not being honest about the actual brewery! --- Beer merged from original tick of Blonde Bries on 04 Jan 2021 at 00:35 - Score: Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6. Original review text: Tripel with spelt, created by a hobby brewing initiative in Borgerhout (Antwerp), gone commercial in early 2019; although they admit that the commercial volumes, sold in various beer shops and pubs in and around the city of Antwerp, are not produced in-house, they refuse to disclose where the beer is actually brewed so until we find out, and I am determined to do so, I guess we have no choice but to grant them their own entry here (I thoroughly hate this - mentioning the physical brewery should be obligatory and reinforceable by law, not just in Belgium but everywhere!). Thick and frothy, off-white, irregularly lacing, stable head on an initially lightly hazy, 'old gold' coloured beer with sparse sparkling, turning misty and more ochre-tinged with sediment. Aroma of homemade apple juice but freshly so, old bread, coriander seed, spelt bread indeed, banana peel, field flowers, cooked parnsip, kiwi, some faint DMS in the background. Sweet onset, banana ester, ripe pear, pineapple, medium carb with smooth and full mouthfeel; some honeyish residual sugariness lingering over a soapy-wheaty middle (clearly the spelt speaking) with clean-bready edge, spiced by coriander seed accentuating the spelt soapiness, and hopped by a floral, soft and brief hop bitterness. A warming, calvados-like alcohol glow rounds things off but does not become too harsh. Soft, sweet, gentle tripel - too soft for me, even the use of spelt does not manage to set this apart from the vast hordes of perfectly interchangeable, sweet and accessible tripels for the masses flooding Belgium these days. More or less correct technically speaking, but again so damn predictable - and point off for not being honest about the actual brewery!
Kraddel (15844) reviewed Blonde Bries from Pure Range Beers 6 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5.5 | Flavor - 5.5 | Texture - 5 | Overall - 6.5
I'm Always a bit dissapointed when a new beer company tries to pose as a brewery. Mission failed, as this was clearly not a brewery ( as of now, at least, since he now says he will be in the future ? ) Anyway, real brewery currently unknown, which is a bit of a pity and doesn't work in the favor of my mood when rating this beer, I must admit. Pours clear, bit darker blonde. Foam dies of very quickly. Smell is rough, sharp grainy, bit hay, doesnt have a lot of freshness to it. mild citrussyness, but not the bright hoppy kind you might hope for, more like a bland, stale kindof lemon juice , touching the zone of citrussyness I only encountered in old, aged geuze beers. (doesnt have anything else in common with that , no noticable flaws in terms of bacteria/ wild yeast) . Taste is sharp , high carbonation (sigh ) mild honey ( aged factor, though the beer itself is fresh, best by date nearly 2 years ahead, and kept cold the couple of weeks I had it ) but it's kinda enjoyable, still. no cardboard or so. assertive bitterness, hops don't taste stale here, but they dont give off any aroma ( not even the lemon-like character I had in the scent ) . the biggest problem here is the maltbase. Tastes very unfresh, stale, sober, doesnt provide the mouthfeel you'd hope for in a tripel,... It's all fun and special to add something extra like spelt, but it clearly doesnt make the beer better ( to me ) so why bother ? maybe other people do like it? Tastes a lot like a beer i'd expect from companies like vansteenberghe, huyghe, …. Not bad, nothing seriously off, just very boring, bland, and quite stale-tasting. Of, and of course, a personal hatred against this level of carbonation, yet i've had far worse than this as well.