Oxfam Juste Blond
Brasserie des Légendes in Irchonwelz, Hainaut, Belgium 🇧🇪
Belgian Style - Blonde / Pale / Amber Special|
Score
6.53
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Brewed by Brasserie des Légendes in Ath, Belgium. JUSTE Blond contains Belgian barley and hops, and organic rice from Thailand.
JUSTE, your fair alternative to any standard ale.
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Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7
33cl bottle from the Ostend Oxfam shop; BB September 2026. Poured into my huge Judas glass at home on 5th December 2025. Bertie and I are having a mini session today while Margie is in Chester doing some Christmas shopping. This will be the first of the beers. Didn't let any sediment leave the bottle, so I got a clean and clear golden body with a sparce white head. Bready aroma, some yeasty esters too. Taste is typical Belgian Blonde, no indication there is rice in the brew. Light herbal twist, but it's not enough to get excited about. I will be having the triple from Oxfam next, hope it's a little more interesting.
Sloefmans (15519) reviewed Oxfam Juste Blond from Brasserie des Légendes 1 year ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6.5 | Flavor - 6.5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Medium, lightly yellowish head over finely carbonated orange-golden beer. Spicy nose, bit spicy malts. Sports a slightly sourish aspect, citrus, fake citrus - coriander. Peppery & coriander, fake citrus, again spicy - malty. Bit meaty - as sparsely spiced stock. Pearjuice, bit peppery and almost not sweet. Bit slick, medium bodied at best, good carbonation. Not bad, but nothing exhilarating either, here. Dull, the hallmark of third world fans? And as food for thought, rice is considered an inferior adjunct to beer - or is that waved because of the Thai origin? Txs to Stef!
Sebletitje (15913) reviewed Oxfam Juste Blond from Brasserie des Légendes 5 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6.5 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Bouteille 33cl, Oxfam Shop Waterloo. BB 12/2021, lot# L091.
Série de trois bières brassées par Légendes. Cette version utilise du riz fairetrade.
Dorée, col fin blanc.
Arôme de grains, malts pils, rétro un peu sur le concassé avec un apport de riz qui ajoute une effluve intéressante. Fruité léger apporte un côté banane fermentée voire en purée, houblonné noble oscillant vers un léger épicé - terreux.
Palais est de suite marqué par une sécheresse de grains - le riz est bien en avant et rappelle plus les premium lager que je trouvais en Afrique - à savoir qu'au delà de 25 voire 30% le riz ne passe plus vu son faible taux de fermentation. En Afrique il était utilisé comme substitut aux malts bcp plus chers en importation.
Amertume noble sur un côté Saaz - petite fin terreuse, fin citronné, herbe sèche.
Correcte pour son ajout maîtrisé du riz. Sinon, le tout reste assez classique belge.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 7
16 November 2019. At 4de Gentse Bierquiz. Cheers to Anke & Pieter! Clear golden with a lasting, thin, frothy, white head. Aroma of rice, grain, yeast, citrus, spices, bread. Taste is restrained sweetish apple peel, pear, bitter spices over a yeasty, grainy, bready profile; sourish wheaty accent into the dry, yeasty, grassy hoppy finish. Light to medium body, slick texture, lively carbonation. Okay basic blonde but I detest that overcarbonation which ruins an already underwhelming taste.
Alengrin (11675) reviewed Oxfam Juste Blond from Brasserie des Légendes 6 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
The blonde on in this stereotypically designed blonde-dubbel-tripel triangle commissioned by Oxfam, bottle from an Oxfam shop in Ghent. Off-white, cobweb-lacing, foamy, large-bubbled yet stable head, misty peach blonde robe with ochre-ish tinge. Aroma of banana peel, damp straw, freshly cut red apple, white bread crumbs, peach, hint of white grape juice somehow, coriander seed, grass. Crisp fruity onset, green pear and medium ripe banana, freshly cut apples, very fizzy and minerally carbonation; supple body, a tad powdery but not unpleasantly so, with a bread crumb-like pale malt middle and a softly dusty-spicy coriander seed note accentuated by fermentation-derived spicy phenols and a floral hop note providing gentle end bitterishness. Bit dirty in the end as well, with lingering yeasty breadiness. Typical Belgian style blonde with a clearly yeasty profile, nothing wrong here but I’m not in a hurry to seek out the tripel version which I apparently overlooked…
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Bottle from Oxfam Scheldewindeke. Light hazy blond colour, creamy white foam. Lots of carbonation. Very grainy, malty nose. Taste is malty, dry and bitter, light sweetness. A bit too much carbonation.
DirDec (2083) ticked Oxfam Juste Blond from Brasserie des Légendes 6 years ago
tderoeck (22946) reviewed Oxfam Juste Blond from Brasserie des Légendes 6 years ago
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Imported from my RateBeer account as Oxfam We Want Juste Fair Blond (by Brasserie des Géants (Brasserie des Légendes)):
Aroma: 7/10, Appearance: 2/5, Taste: 6/10, Palate: 3/5, Overall: 12/20, MyTotalScore: 3/5
12/VIII/19 - 33cl bottle from Oxfam Gent, shared @ 't Zwaantje, BB: V/2021 - (2019-1209)
Damn backlog, could've been first. :p
Clear pale blond beer, small aery irregular white head, unstable, dissipates quickly. Aroma: slightly floral, fruity touch, citrus notes, bit malty. MF: lots of carbon, medium to light body. Taste: pretty bitter, floral notes, some citrus, bit fruity, malty. Aftertaste: pretty bitter, malty, metallic touch, bit fruity, citrus touch, bit soapy, unpleasant bitterness.