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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7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Hazy goden with medium off white head. Sweet yeasty malty aroma with spices, oranges and coriander. Flavor is sweet with ripe fruits, yeast and spices.
Tried
on 11 Jan 2008
at 17:25
5.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 5
Bottle. (thx for sharing, papsoe) Hazy, yellowish body, topped by an off-white head. Sweet and fruity aroma. The flavor is a bit lactic, else it is fruity, citrusy and slightlly bitter. Medium body. The finish has the same weak sourness, and is quite fruity. I bet the sourness wasn’t intended from the brewer. (071006)
Tried
from Bottle
on 26 Nov 2007
at 15:29
4.9/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 6
Flavor 5
Texture 4
Overall 4.5
(Bottle 33 cl) Hazy golden with a creamy, beige head. Lightly sweetish fruit aroma with a whiff of yeast. Medium body, some fruit and then an odd, underlying tartness - sorta Berliner Weisse sour, which I doubt is intentional. Almost no bitterness. 061007
Tried
from Bottle
on 08 Oct 2007
at 14:37
6.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Best Before 2007 750mL bottle drunk on 5/26/07
Thankfully pale malts don’t oxidize as quickly and/or poorly as dark ones do because here is yet another example of my previous infatuation with aging beers gone bad. I waxed the cap, so I’m thinking that helped lock in some carbonation, and certainly this was well-carbonated with a fluffy white head. But it just seemed tired, with lots of dustiness and a fair amount of vanillin.
Though, it’s interesting to note that perhaps giving a beer a few years really allows you to see what it’s made of. Fresh Belgian strong goldens are (usually) quite liberally hopped and so full of overt phenols/esters that you cant get the full story of the malt intricacies. Or maybe that’s just a bunch of schlock. Either way, I know this would have been quite different fresh. Very sugary, with lots of honey and sweet cookie dough, it has a fair amount of breadiness with a trailing esteriness (heavy banana and peach, some nectarine). Carbonation is mostly tight, but there is a bit of looseness near the finish. Aroma has some powderiness and lots of adjunct sugar apparency hiding behind the big ester bouquet. Surprisingly still spicy (white pepper and coriander) despite there being no spice addition.
I’ll probably score it for how it was in this aged condition. I’d imagine that fresh, it must be very sweet (it’s quite sweet as is here) so that would probably balance the extra points I’d give it for a more presumed bright flavor/aroma. No alcohol noted.
Thankfully pale malts don’t oxidize as quickly and/or poorly as dark ones do because here is yet another example of my previous infatuation with aging beers gone bad. I waxed the cap, so I’m thinking that helped lock in some carbonation, and certainly this was well-carbonated with a fluffy white head. But it just seemed tired, with lots of dustiness and a fair amount of vanillin.
Though, it’s interesting to note that perhaps giving a beer a few years really allows you to see what it’s made of. Fresh Belgian strong goldens are (usually) quite liberally hopped and so full of overt phenols/esters that you cant get the full story of the malt intricacies. Or maybe that’s just a bunch of schlock. Either way, I know this would have been quite different fresh. Very sugary, with lots of honey and sweet cookie dough, it has a fair amount of breadiness with a trailing esteriness (heavy banana and peach, some nectarine). Carbonation is mostly tight, but there is a bit of looseness near the finish. Aroma has some powderiness and lots of adjunct sugar apparency hiding behind the big ester bouquet. Surprisingly still spicy (white pepper and coriander) despite there being no spice addition.
I’ll probably score it for how it was in this aged condition. I’d imagine that fresh, it must be very sweet (it’s quite sweet as is here) so that would probably balance the extra points I’d give it for a more presumed bright flavor/aroma. No alcohol noted.
Tried
from Bottle
on 14 Jun 2007
at 16:23
6.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 5
Texture 8
Overall 6
Bottle. Creamy white excellent mostly lasting head. Dark yellow colour. Fantastic hoppy flowerycomplex aroma. Alas not so grteat flavor. Moderate bitter. Very acetic bitter finish. Creamy palate. Not my favorite.
Tried
from Bottle
on 23 Apr 2007
at 03:41
6.3/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 6
Bottle: Poured a golden amber with white head. The aroma was citrus and hoppy. The taste was bitter citrus fruit that continued through the finish.
Tried
from Bottle
on 04 Mar 2007
at 13:48
7.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7
Hazy blond yellow/orange with a fine white head. Fruity malty yeasty aroma. Fine filling body and a taste of fruits (orange/citrus) easy sweet. Nice light bitter finish. Great!
Tried
on 04 Mar 2007
at 07:15
6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
A hazy orange beer with a small orange head. The aroma is yeasty, dusty and flowery, while the flavor is sweet yeasty, but also with some dusty and spicy notes as well as hints of the alcohol. Straight down the middle of the road blonde.
Tried
on 30 Dec 2005
at 04:09
6.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Bottled (BB 06/2007)
Hazy, darkish orange, lively carbonation, small but steady white head. Fruity, a bit woody nose with some spices similar to Fantome beers. Medium-bodied, woody, some hops, spices and added sugar. Dry aftertaste. I found "saison-touch" here.
Hazy, darkish orange, lively carbonation, small but steady white head. Fruity, a bit woody nose with some spices similar to Fantome beers. Medium-bodied, woody, some hops, spices and added sugar. Dry aftertaste. I found "saison-touch" here.
Tried
from Bottle
on 16 Dec 2005
at 11:34
7.8/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 6
Flavor 8
Texture 10
Overall 7
Bottled. Beautifully cloudy golden with creamt head. Light orangey nose. Sweet and malty with soft mouthfeel. Less lively than many other tripels. Notes of vanilla and toffee, drying out towards the grassy finish. Stylish and well balanced.
Tried
from Bottle
on 23 Jun 2005
at 09:09