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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7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 8
750 from Monument in Concord, CA. Pours hazy gold with a 4 finger foamy white head. Aromas of citrus, yeast/spice, and slight kandi. Near medium body with very foamy carbonation. Flavor is mild everything - and it comes out flavorfully near sour. So citrus, yeast/spice and a little pale malt. It’s not a heavy tripel. But it drinks really well. Tripel for everyman.
Tried
on 06 Sep 2010
at 17:44
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Bottle. Golden amber beer with a huge off-white head. Spice and yeast aroma. Yeast and spice flavor with light malt and light fruitiness. Medium bodied. Yeast and spice lingers with malt.
Tried
from Bottle
on 03 Aug 2010
at 10:54
6.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 6.5
Sampled on tap at Max’s Belgian Fest. Transparent golden yellow with a ringing white head. Nose of grass, sweet pale malts. Flavor is sweet malts, grass, candied orange peel, faint apple. Crisp finish. Decent blonde.
Tried
from Draft
on 18 Feb 2010
at 15:57
7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Bottle from Utobeer. Slightly hazy, amber in colour with a thick, white head. Aroma of sweet malts, apricot and peach and a hint of floral hop. Yeasty, sweet flavour with some spicing and decent bitter finish. Enjoyable.
Tried
from Bottle
on 06 Feb 2010
at 23:43
7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Draft at Maduro. Huge off-white foamy head. Hazy orange-amber colored body. Nice Belgian Blonde, on the maltier side. Rather deliciously straightforward. A mild, soapy hop balance. Gentle and creamy. Smooth, awesome beer. Well done.
Tried
from Draft
on 06 Feb 2010
at 00:11
5.2/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 6
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 5
Bottle. Poured a cloudy pale gold with a thick white head. Aroma was sweet with notes of sugar, banana and cereal. Flavor was sweet as well from the malts with a mainly sugary cereal flavor.
Tried
from Bottle
on 24 Nov 2009
at 17:01
7.3/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 10
Overall 6
Cloudy pale orange with a big fluffy white head. Aroma is yeasty and spicy. Flavor of grass, orange peel, coriander, and finishes with a generous hoppy bitterness. Solid.
Tried
on 14 Oct 2009
at 17:22
6.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Bottle @ Bier Circus, Brussels. Pours a clear golden color with a small off-white head. Has a fruity malty honey aroma. Sweetish malty spicy bitter flavor. Has a sweetish malty smooth spicy honey finish.
Tried
from Bottle
on 16 Aug 2009
at 05:22
6.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 6
33cl bottle from Dranken Geers. Have to agree with Oakes’ rating on this, really rather wheaty and the icing sugar reference is just about right. In fact i can’t get that description out of my head on the finish. Odd vegetal flavour somewhere. Shame as the other 2 beers I ’ve had from this brewery were very good indeed. A wheaty sherberty icing sugar golden beer, with some interesting vegetal herb flavour somewhere lurking behind the sugar sweetness. Fairly bizarre. I quite like it even for it’s clearly basic faults.
Tried
from Bottle
on 06 Jul 2009
at 17:21
7/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
(33cl bottle)Hazy, golden colour with a medium-sized foamy white head. Moderately sweet malty aroma with a distinctive fruit-character of apricot, citrus and peach. Light-sweet and slightly bitter flavour, medium bodied with an almost soft, slightly crispy carbonation. Pale malty and again distinctively fruity taste with a relatively dry mouthfeel. Dry-ish delicately malty and fruity finish with a tinge of hops. Good (02.V.09).
Tried
from Bottle
on 02 May 2009
at 17:35