Blote Nek
CyDraLe in Zandvliet, Antwerp, Belgium 🇧🇪
Brewed at/by: Fort LapinBelgian Style - Blonde / Pale / Amber Regular
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Score
5.98
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bier4der (3351) ticked Blote Nek from CyDraLe 4 years ago
Sloefmans (15389) reviewed Blote Nek from CyDraLe 5 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6.5 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Gushing to huge, very dense & fine light-yellowish head over pale golden beer, finely carbonated to lace. Bit dusty, spicy grains, hints at a bit of acidity. Toasted, ever so slightly oxydated grains, a bit grassy. Finish is sweet, sugary, whilst all the hops & bitterness are concentrated in the head. Spritzy carbonation, slick, nearly sticky, light body. Not bad, if a tad superfluous. Thanks to Stef!
Koelschtrinker (42542) reviewed Blote Nek from CyDraLe 7 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 4
Wenig würziger, trocken herber Beginn. Milde Süße, wenig herb, laff. Muss nicht. 8/7/7/7//7
SinH4 (15499) reviewed Blote Nek from CyDraLe 7 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Bottle. Murky pale golden-ish color with white head. Aroma is sour candy, fresh yeast. Taste is yeastcake. Oily mouthfeel with low carbonation. 3-2-4-2-5 Tap version: much better, a bit hoppy, pale malts, fresher, less yeastcakey.
beerhunter111 (50581) reviewed Blote Nek from CyDraLe 7 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Sampled @ Zythos Bier Festival 2018. A murky golden beer. Aroma of dry soft grassy hops, yellow fruits. Taste of mild fruity hops, citrus, dry grassy hops.
tderoeck (22711) reviewed Blote Nek from CyDraLe 7 years ago
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5
Imported from my RateBeer account as CyDraLe Blote Nek (by CyDraLe):
Aroma: 7/10, Appearance: 5/5, Taste: 5/10, Palate: 3/5, Overall: 10/20, MyTotalScore: 3/5
28/IV/18 - shared @ Zythos Bierfestival 2018 (Leuven) - BB: n/a (2018-556) Thanks to the ratebeer crew for sharing today's beers!
Cloudy dark beige beer, creamy solid off-white head, very stable, adhesive, leaving a nice lacing in the glass. Aroma: fruity, yeasty, some banana, grains. MF: soft carbon, medium body. Taste: fruity start, very unpleasant bitterness, fruity. Aftertaste: bit metallic, not so great...
MarcoDL (7854) reviewed Blote Nek from CyDraLe 8 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 2
At Hopishop 2017. Aroma of lager yeast and pale malt. Taste has bitter lager yeast, pale malt and dusty notes. Way too old.
Kraddel (15844) reviewed Blote Nek from CyDraLe 8 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
Another one of those ’lost and found’ rates. Served at beerlovers bar, a few months ago. Pours hazy yellowblonde, medium sized and rather stable white head. Smell is mostly the grains ( malty, as eell as a deeper complexity ) light undertone of hops. Taste has a reasonable amount of hoppy touches, but is rather weak overall. The grains complexity build up a nice character , but the intensity ship has sailed of already. Reasonable refreshing. Not bad, but I prefer more intense tastes.
77ships (14506) reviewed Blote Nek from CyDraLe 8 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
330 ml. bottle sampled. BBF 09/09/2017 according to label & BBF 05/08/2018 according to the cap. That is new. Hazy golden, big soapy white bubbles, collapsing. Nose is BE green, white pepper, grass, faint sulfur-like note plus some fluffy bread. Touch high carbonation, plastic, soap. Taste is sweet plastic with some bitterness in the finish, hay, bit mineral, quite BE, soap, quite mineral, green apple, lingering soap & plastic finish, bitter banana peal, approaching band-aid. This is your standard, uninspiring middling BE blond, no flaw or excessive yeast, it seem to lack something necessary in order to make it work. It is a bit too basic plastic, green apple, near band-aid,... I enjoyed the other CyDraLe beers more, maybe if a more exciting brewery than Fort Lapin produced this one?
Alengrin (11609) reviewed Blote Nek from CyDraLe 8 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
New session blonde from a beer company in the Antwerp region, steini bottle from Wijnegemse Drankenhal, with very simple label depicting a cartoonish ostrich - with ’bare neck’, the literal translation of the name. Very thick and very frothy, snow white, irregular head, very foamy and closed for a long time, leaving behind a thick wall of ’papery’ lacing on the edge of the glass, over a straw blonde beer with vague khaki tinge, hazy but in an attractive way at least initially, perturbed by strings of fizz rising up from the bottom of the glass, becoming more ochre-hued blonde and completely misty with deposit. Aroma of banana peel, melting powder sugar, raw rhubarb, sorrel leaves, soap, coriander, camomile flowers, minerals, Granny Smith apples, raw fennel, rainwater, something chalky, old bread crust, young cheese, paper, moist white pepper, potato peel. Crisp, fruity onset, hints of green apple, unripe peach, very light (’unripe’) banana and Conférence pear, only remotely sweet with a ’basic’ sourishness to it, but the flavours are a bit numbed by fizzy, very minerally carbonation, though this aspect does calm down after a while. Light but still sufficiently ’filling’ body, retaining its minerally character all the way through over a light ’bread crust’-like maltiness with sharper grainy edges, towards a dryish finish which adds a dash of floral, mildly spicy and somewhat earthy hops, providing some lingering, quenching bitterness, blending in with the soapy effect of the coriander. The umpteenth ordinary Belgian blonde but at a lower level of alcohol than usual for this (sub)style, making it highly sessionable; feels light, crisp, minerally and - in all - relatively neutral, so clearly intended as an alternative to bland pale lager, but given the choice between this and, say, Stella or Maes, I’d opt for this one without any doubt. Technically correct, light-bodied but still feeling quite ’full’, a bit overcarbonated perhaps but I guess this fits the concept, ’honest’, clean and not overly estery: this may be a beer of low profile, but I can sincerely recommend it as an easy yet completely correct quencher for the summery days that are upon us. Expected worse, to be honest.