Gauloise Blonde
Brasserie du Bocq in Purnode, Namur, Belgium 🇧🇪
Belgian Style - Blonde / Pale / Amber Regular|
Score
6.28
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Its slight bitterness gives it a slightly fruity and hoppy aroma. Not too strong but round strong character. A powerful beer structure and a lovely strength. The bubble is fine and soft . The palate is smooth, round and fruity (pear, orange, blond tobacco, milk chocolate). In the end palate, a tangy side and a little bitterness is clearer, giving it balance with its freshness.
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6.3/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 5
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 6
Yellow-orange, slight haze; off-white head, condensing itself to 1/2 - 1 cm, some lace. Vanilla - and diacetyl in the nose. In a blonde - bwaaagh. Roasted malt and peppery, alcohol present. Dry taste, nothing obvious but pale malt, and a bit of alcohol. Diacetyl all but vanished, some roasted flavours. Becomes quite sweet in the finish, alcohol appearing. Maybe some fusels? Alcohol impression is exaggerated for its meagre 6.3 ABV. Quite dry and well-attenuated - I suspect sugar used is fully fermented. Technically OK blonde (diacetyl nose excepted) - but boring, boring...
Tried
on 02 Aug 2004
at 14:17
7.3/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Cloudy golden colour. Frothy white, mostly diminishing head, good lacing. Citrus and pine in the aroma, which is a little bit alcoholic too. Soft, lightly sweet and lightly bitter initial flavour. A long - but very weak lightly bitter finish.
Tried
on 09 Feb 2004
at 16:38
7.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7
Hazy golden color; niceperlage; creamy head, persistent. A Tripel character: light, dry aroma, hop; dry front taste, a bit sweeter later; just somehow metallic. A light anis note. More important than its strength may suggest.
Tried
on 08 Nov 2003
at 09:40
6.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Clear yellow color. Good lacing. Spicy nose. Sweet spicy taste. Just a typical blonde, nothing special.
Tried
on 03 Nov 2002
at 12:15
5.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 3
Texture 6
Overall 4
A yellow slightly hazy beer with a very beutiful head. It has a nice very strong aroma of yeast and the hints of sourness beers brewed on malted wheat often has. But the flavor is nothing special - it contains a smooth wheat taste and notes of yeast and ends of on an arkward hop bitterness with a metallic note. If I have a choise of wheat beers, this is not the one I'll choose.
Tried
on 03 Oct 2002
at 09:09
6.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6
Pale yellow and slightly hazy. Big estery bubblegum aroma. Medium bodied, sweet, but with dry finish and some late bitterness.
Tried
on 13 Jun 2002
at 00:27
6.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 6
light orange with a very big and stable head - the glasdesign is kind of funny here. A light citrus aroma and some bitternes. Neutral taste - quenching, but a bit to strong for that little taste.
Tried
on 15 Apr 2002
at 08:27