Brasserie du Bocq Gauloise Blonde

Gauloise Blonde

 

Brasserie du Bocq in Purnode, Namur, Belgium 🇧🇪

  Belgian Style - Blonde / Pale / Amber Regular
Score
6.28
ABV: 6.3% IBU: 17 Ticks: 117
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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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