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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4.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 4
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 4.5
Bottle sample at a tasting at Rotem’s place. Thanks zvikar. Hazy golden. Aroma of yeast, some fruitiness and cardboard. Sweetish yeasty flavor, fruity and a bit spicy. Light-medium-bodied.
Tried
from Bottle
on 20 May 2012
at 08:55
7.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Large corked and wired .75 litre brown bottle, obtained from my local Tesco store. Best by 18th Nov 2007, drank on 3rd Nov 2006. Should I have waited a couple of months before opening it, maybe? Came out a slighty cloudy, yellow with an orange hue to it. Good large foaming head that crackled (you can hear it, honest) with the release of the carbonisation. Sour citrus fruits and the smell of wheat are the overiding aromas I detected. The taste is a pleasant refreshing one, like the aroma, wheaty and a little sour. The taste hangs around, getting sweeter as time goes on, giving it a good mouthfeel in my opinion. This is very drinkable, a summer beer more so than winter, but a beer I will have no problems drinking again, and again.
Tried
from Bottle
on 04 May 2012
at 01:13
8.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
hay, roasty, caramel, floral, barnyard, earthy, rotten eggs, cough drop, golden, cloudy, minimal head, rocky head, medium sweetness, very bitter, medium sourness, umami, medium body, creamy, average carbonation, bitter, long finish,
Tried
on 25 Mar 2012
at 04:25
6.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
0.33l bottle. A straw yellow beer with a small bubbly just off-white head that's lacing down the glass. Light sweet on the aroma; It's malty with a sweet champagne-like yeasty and fruity aroma. Some honey as well. quite like! Average to lively carbonated with a thin oily mouthfeel. Not as exciting in the flavor as it was in the aroma. Gets kinda watery and toned down. Some malty sweetness here, it's also quite mouthdrying. A fade metallic undertone drags the impression of this one a bit down. Still, not a horrible blond. After a while it actually tasted a bit like a Norwegian honey throat lozenges (honey doc-pastiller!)
Tried
from Bottle
on 02 Jan 2012
at 02:07
6.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 7
2010 Vintage 33 cl bottle shared @ friend’s house: A: hazy golden with a white head / S: adjuncts, hay, yeast, grain / T: bitter grains, yeast, mellowed out duet o the aging adjuncts, bitter citrus & spice / B: medium / aged this one for a while at home for no particular reason, never tasted this fresh, i do imagine that even though it is still not very good, the aging has improved it, tastes mellowed out
Tried
from Bottle
on 03 Dec 2011
at 04:22
6.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 6.5
Bottle , sample at GBF 2011, cons 2011-09-02 AR: potatos, corn AP: brown saus with wee head F. dry, corn
Tried
from Bottle
on 09 Sep 2011
at 15:41
5.8/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Bottle at Haket during Gothenburg Beer Festival 2011Sampled on Friday September 2, 2011Clear pale straw yellow color, white head. Malty grainy scent. Malty, grainy taste. Medium mouthfeel, medium bitterness.
Tried
from Bottle
on 07 Sep 2011
at 14:00
6.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 5
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 7
on tap at the Paas, the Hague 17/7/2011 Creamy white head. Hazy blond pour.
Tried
from Draft
on 20 Aug 2011
at 04:24
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Slightly hazy blonde ale. Spicy, fruity aroma with a hint of florals is appetizing. Spicy, herbal hops with faint alcohol. Good beer.
Tried
on 04 Aug 2011
at 20:52
6.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Bottle @ Cafe Buitenlust, Oirschot. Slightly hazy golden color. Not a very nice smell. Average taste, medium body. Average blond beer.
Tried
from Bottle
on 19 Jul 2011
at 07:10