Baptist Blond - Blonde
Brouwerij Van Steenberge in Ertvelde, East Flanders, Belgium 🇧🇪
Belgian Style - Blonde / Pale / Amber Regular|
Score
5.74
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1784, the year in which Jan Baptist De Bruyne lays the foundation for Brouwerij Van Steenberge. No better ode to the founder of the brewery than our Baptist beers. Beers brewed with modern techniques and respect for our rich history. In addition to a tasteful tribute to our founder, Baptist Blond is also brewed on the occasion of the opening of our own Bar Baptist. The result is an accessible specialty beer with a full and rich taste.
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6.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Clear golden colour, white head. Malty aroma, spicy yeast, cloves. Sweet malty flavour, bit spicy. Finish yeast, sweet malts.
(from 33cL bottle @ home)
(from 33cL bottle @ home)
Tried
from Bottle
on 18 Jun 2018
at 19:30
6.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Clear blond colour with thin head. Aroma and flavour have a nice balance of pale malts and dry hop. Considering the alcohol level this would make a decent substitute for a pils.
Tried
on 13 Apr 2018
at 21:29
5.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 4
Overall 6
F: huge, creamy, white, good retention. C: pale gold, clear. A: malty, bit floral, bready, caramel, like lager more than top fermented. T: malty, light grassy bitterness, bit metallic, bready, toast, bit fruity, I don’t even know if it is lager or ale according to taste, light dough, bit oily mouthfeel, very strange, medium body and carbonation, 33cl bottle from Prik & Tik ABC Drinks Leuven.
Tried
from Bottle
on 10 Feb 2018
at 21:17
6/10
Imported from untappd on 02-05-2020
Tried
from Bottle
on 23 Jan 2018
at 12:07
6.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Levendig helder geel bier meet veel schuim. Smaak is licht btter hoppig en licht zoet met iets van ananas en mout/hop. Goed doordrink bier met fijne smaak.
Tried
on 29 Dec 2017
at 06:27
6/10
Tried
from Draft
at
Horeca Expo
on 23 Nov 2017
at 20:50
5/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 6
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 4
One of several Baptist beers named after the founder of the Van Steenberge (formerly Bios) brewery and created for the inauguration of the new brewing installation. Steini bottle as usual, from Van Eetvelde in Lokeren. Intricately cobweb-lacing, egg-white, moussy, medium thick head, dissolving slowly in the middle but otherwise well-retaining, over a completely cristal clear, pure yellowish golden blonde beer, clearly filtered. Even thought the label explicitly states that this is top fermented, the aroma is a lot more like an industrial pale lager than a traditionally top-fermented Belgian blonde (making it even worse than expected): that off-putting, cooked laundry-like smell of pasteurization overlies hints of popcorn, butter, damp cloth, soggy breakfast cereals, unripe banana, industrial cheese spread, bubblegum, freshly cut grass, white bread, plastic flowers, green apple. Low in esters, only restrainedly fruity in the onset, apple and unripe green banana hints, sweetish and sourish, with sharpish, minerally carbonation; supple, slick body, pale malt cereally flavour like in a pale lager but a tad thicker, white bread, corn (label says contains barley malt so this is actually a possibility), bit creamy; floral, soft hop bitterness in the end, a tad rooty (even a bit harsh and glueish in this 'naked' and simple environment), but its modest contribution is insufficient to wipe out that damp cloth- and freshly ironed shirt-like odour of pasteurization, which returns retronasally in fully dressed form, with even a melting plastic-like effect, like in some cheap industrial pale lager. Ends softly bittering, with that cereally pale malt graininess lingering a bit, but briefly so. I never liked Van Steenberge's old-fashioned, simplistic and usually rather unrefined beers too much, but this is far from a positive evolution; why in Ninkasi's name did they think making yet another boring, sweetish, overly simple Belgian blonde would enlarge their audience, in order to finance their fancy new brewing equipment? In fact, I am convinced (and have heard this from people who used to work at this brewery!) that this is indeed a lager, perhaps even an alias of Sparta Pils, which would make the farce complete. Shame on you, Van Steenberge, my already low esteem of your range has now reached an all time low. This beer is everything a 21st-century Belgian craft beer should not be.
Tried
from Bottle
on 18 Nov 2017
at 07:38
3/10
Waterachtig pilsbier. Tegenvaller.
Tried
from Bottle
at
Staminee De Crawaett
on 23 Sep 2017
at 16:59
5.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 4
Overall 5.5
On Tap @Trollekelder, Gante 09/09/17.
Color amarillo dorado, aromas a cereal notas a levadura, sabor malta ligero, cuerpo ligero.
Color amarillo dorado, aromas a cereal notas a levadura, sabor malta ligero, cuerpo ligero.
Tried
from Draft
on 13 Sep 2017
at 18:29
3/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 2
Flavor 3
Texture 4
Overall 2
Bottle from LDW. Clear golden colour, white foam. Nose is malty, oxidized, strange artifical chemical notes. Taste is bitter, sweet malty, very artificial. Very bad.
Tried
from Bottle
on 19 Aug 2017
at 06:21