Tournay Blonde
Brasserie de Cazeau in Templeuve, Hainaut, Belgium 🇧🇪
Belgian Style - Blonde / Pale / Amber Regular|
Score
6.77
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Balance! That’s what we were looking for and that’s what we’ve achieved with a round but light beer with a perfect degree of bitterness.
Savour it as an aperitif with friends and tell them how it was born…
Following the relaunch of the brewery in 2003, we have visited many breweries and discussed things with many seasoned or debutant brewers. Memorable visits during which the tendencies for our first beer were chosen: we wanted to produce a blonde beer, with too not strong an alcohol percent, with personality but above all remaining well balanced.
To prevent it from being overly hopped, we had chosen four American hops, coherent between themselves, and subtly dosed. And to give our beer body, we opted for a malt charge of 100% barley malt, without any other cereal, nor any added sugar.
At the end of several months of research, we were finally ready to create a brew in our newly installed brewing room. It took place on 01 May 2004, and Tournay Blonde was born!
Savour it as an aperitif with friends and tell them how it was born…
Following the relaunch of the brewery in 2003, we have visited many breweries and discussed things with many seasoned or debutant brewers. Memorable visits during which the tendencies for our first beer were chosen: we wanted to produce a blonde beer, with too not strong an alcohol percent, with personality but above all remaining well balanced.
To prevent it from being overly hopped, we had chosen four American hops, coherent between themselves, and subtly dosed. And to give our beer body, we opted for a malt charge of 100% barley malt, without any other cereal, nor any added sugar.
At the end of several months of research, we were finally ready to create a brew in our newly installed brewing room. It took place on 01 May 2004, and Tournay Blonde was born!
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8.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 9
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 8.5
Labeled as simply Tournay (orange label) 7% ABV: Aroma is well funked, with coriander, sage, and basil. Cloudy golden, thick head, decent lacing. Medium body. Light malt, rice, funk. Decidedly un-fruity, which is a refreshing change from other blondes and saisons. Not real exciting, but flavorful and good. Remarkable for not containing additives.
Tried
on 13 Jan 2012
at 18:09
6.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Hazy yellow with a white head. Aroma is sweet, malty, fruity and yeasty. Flavor is medium sweet and moderate bitter. Dry and light bitter finish. 220911
Tried
on 23 Sep 2011
at 07:10
6.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Bottle. Hazy dark yellow with big white head. Aroma is malt, yeast and spices. Flavour is malt, yeast, hops, bitter, fruit, little citrus, spices and very carbonated.
Tried
from Bottle
on 22 Sep 2011
at 22:21
6.4/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Bottle. Medium head with medium duration. Color is hazy pale golden. Aroma and taste are yeast, malt, fruits and hops.
Tried
from Bottle
on 22 Sep 2011
at 12:06
6.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
A hazed golden ale with a thick frothy white head. In aroma, a sweet smooth honey malt with light orange peels, a bit oxidized. In mouth, a nice sweet cereal malt with light fruit pulp, light honey notes, nice and creamy. Bieropholie import, tasted Sept. 5 2011. BB 12-09.
Tried
on 19 Sep 2011
at 19:32
7.3/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Bottle @ home shared with DutchDrebus. Clear yellow / light orange color, slightly off-white head. Smell malts, grassy and a lot of orange peel. Taste is a decent sweet and bitter. Medium carbo, medium body.
Tried
from Bottle
on 05 Sep 2011
at 09:47
7.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
This beer scores avarage on all points for me. It’s quite easy to drink and i wouldn’t turn it down if someone offered it to me.
Tried
on 22 Jun 2011
at 07:53
5.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 4
Overall 6
Freshly tapped at the house of 1000 beers. It was listed as Tornay Farmhouse Belgian, so I hope this is the right spot. This listing says in a bottle but reseaerch says "The Tournay is floral with a faintly bitter aroma; soft mouthfeel, straightforward, refreshing. This is the first beer made by the brewery since it re-launched commercial operations just a few years ago. The intent was to focus on perfecting a single blond ale before doing anything else. " Well, if it is 7.2% you’d never know. Big foamy impressisions from the tap. Slightly cloudy almost lemon yellow looken beer. Weird dirt and wet hay farmy thing going on here. Flat, yet interesting. Vague yet unique. A little bandaid comes in near the end of the session. Not a bad beer drinken experience.
Tried
from Draft
on 11 Jun 2011
at 14:50
7.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 8
Draft @ Festival brassicole de Tournai. Dorée, col blanc. Arôme, levure cave, houblonné avec une note de cône de pin. Citronné et végétale venant peut-être de la levure avec malt. Une bière qui mélange la levure, blé et houblon style goldings donnant une bière qui en bouche est sèche, finement amer, herbeux, fruitée avec malt pale laissant une fine touche de caramel et au fini un peu de sucre brun.
Tried
from Draft
on 20 Mar 2011
at 09:52
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Bottle 330ml. @ home.Clear medium yellow orange color with a average to large, frothy - fizzy and open, good lacing, mostly lasting, white to off-white head. Aroma is moderate malty, moderate hoppy, perfume, grass, moderate yeasty, soapy. Flavor is moderate to light heavy sweet and moderate bitter with a average to long duration, perfume, sharp, peppery. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft, in mouth lively. [20110313]
Tried
from Bottle
on 16 Mar 2011
at 10:36