Ben's Strong Blond
Delhaize in Brussel / Bruxelles / Brussels, Brussels Capital Region, Belgium 🇧🇪
Brewed at/by: Brouwerij Anders!Belgian Style - Strong Ale Series
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Score
6.57
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Jybi (2409) reviewed Ben's Strong Blond from Delhaize 7 years ago
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Quand une chaine de supermarché "haut de gamme" rencontre un "sommelier de la bière" belge renommé cela donne une bière...moyenne...Bref, nous sommes clairement sur du marketing. Vous me direz, de grands chefs français mettent bien leur nom sur des plats cuisinés très loin de la grande cuisine. Je ne suis pas certain que ces personnalités en sortent grandies. J'aurais mal vu un Michael Jackson prêter son nom pour une telle bière (j'aime à le penser tout au moins). Elle est loin d'être dramatique tout de même, mais elle est quelque peu banale et avec un manque de complexité réel. En verre, nous sommes sur une blond orangé trouble surmonté d'une mousse blanc cassé de 3 mm. Le nez est classique sur la pomme, la poire, la banane, les agrumes et la coriandre. A la dégustation, nous sommes sur une base maltée relativement douce. L'attaque est fruitée avec pomme, poire, pêche et très légèrement épicée. La deuxième bouche présente simplement des épices plus développées et légèrement piquantes. Sur l'arrière bouche, l'alcool ressort légèrement sur des arômes où les agrumes s'expriment davantage. L'amertume reste limitée pour sa part. Sur le final, qui est d'une bonne longueur c'est l'alcool qui ressort, pas complètement bien intégrée mais qui donne une certaine chaleur sur des airs de gin, allié à de l'orange et des épices. Que Ben Vinken reste sur ce qu’il sait faire….
Rubin77 (10187) reviewed Ben's Strong Blond from Delhaize 9 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
F: huge, off-white, good retention. C: orange golden, hazy, yeasty debris. A: malt, orange peels, spicy, coriander, light grass, floral, hint of tropical fruits, yeast. T: malty, sweet fruity, oranges, spicy, hint of coriander, bread, grassy, yeast, alcohol finish with gin like tones, aroma is much better than the taste, taste is not good balanced, medium body, lively carbonation, BB: 10/10/2016, 75cl bottle from Delhaize in Oudergem in Brussels.
Deanso (15673) reviewed Ben's Strong Blond from Delhaize 10 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
75cl bottle shared with friends. Thick creamy white head. Hazy blond pour. A bit sweet. Ok
tderoeck (22711) reviewed Ben's Strong Blond from Delhaize 11 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5
Imported from my RateBeer account as Delhaize Ben's Strong Blond (Ben Vinken) (by Delhaize):
Aroma: 6/10, Appearance: 4/5, Taste: 5/10, Palate: 3/5, Overall: 11/20, MyTotalScore: 2.9/5
10/I/15 - 75cl bottle from Delhaize @ Cybu's place - BB: 29/V/16 (2015-28)
Clear blond beer, creamy irregular white head, little stable, bit adhesive. Aroma: sweet, ripe banana, sugary, almonds, some band)aid, rubbery, chemical touch, apples. MF: ok carbon, medium body. Taste: bit fruity start, lots of banana, little bitter, grassy hops. Aftertaste: yeasty, banana, medical kind of bitterness. Meh.
Kraddel (15844) reviewed Ben's Strong Blond from Delhaize 11 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
Bottle . Pours cristal clear blonde, good white head . Smell is malty, bit sweet, slightly bitter aspect . Taste is sweet ( is that a slightly honey aspect ? ) malty sweetness , grainy , a tiny bitter aspect . Balanced, bit perfumed . OK , nothing wrong with this , yet nothing specifically interesting about it .
Fin (18365) reviewed Ben's Strong Blond from Delhaize 11 years ago
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Bottle from Delhaize St Kruiss, Brugge, Belgium, Saturday 6th December 2014. Pours a yolky, hazy beer with a large frothy, creamy, billowing head. Spicy, sweet, warming beer. Very soft in mouth a touch of creamy vanilla, a little crushed coriander, alcohol shows but doesn’t become too harsh. Look likens it too a shandy bass, I can see the angle she’s coming from. It’s very good. A7 A5 T8 P4 Ov15 3.9
Alengrin (11609) reviewed Ben's Strong Blond from Delhaize 11 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5
One of four beers intended to support the busy (but rather superficial) merchandizing surrounding self-proclaimed beer sommelier Ben Vinken, who gave us Bierpassie Magazine and the yearly Bierpassie Weekends in Antwerp. Nice champagne bottle with hangtag and cork, which was catapulted through my kitchen when opening. Thick yellowish white, moussy head slowly decreasing and leaving pretty lacing on the edge of the glass, staying as good as closed all of the time too; colour a deep and warm ’old gold’, slightly hazy with delicate sparkling but clouded and more orange after adding the bottom of the bottle. Aroma strongly dominated by freshly cut oranges, next to overripe peaches, pineapple, mango, white bread, grass, caramel, some spices and clear ’jonge jenever’-like alcohol. Taste starts off with lots of sweet exotic fruitiness, candied orange and orange juice, mango, somewhat sharpish carbonation at first but much less so as the bottle continues, soft caramelly and bready malt base, slick mouthfeel and somewhat thinnish body seen its ABV; in the middle a strong, ’jenever’-like, warming and too astringent alcohol shows up, dominating and drying the entire finish, which also shows some grassy hop bitterness. Promising start, I can appreciate strong aromatic orange flavours in blond beers, but the finish is clearly too alcoholic, which I can appreciate much less. Much ado about - well, not ’nothing’, but less than expected. In terms of style: an ’edelbier’ indeed, but more tripel-like than Vinken probably intended. I will compare this with the actual tripel in this series. But Ben, I really see no point in serving this in an ice bucket...
Sloefmans (15389) reviewed Ben's Strong Blond from Delhaize 11 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
No gushing, but the cork hit the ceiling. Orange beer, well carbonated, under huge, very dense, just off-white head, very stable and leaving lace. Citrus, spicy, coriander-like, yeastesters. Oppressive spicy flavour, with oxydized citrus, oxydized malts, wet hay. Alcohol determines the finish. Spritzy carbonation, alcoholwarming, very slick. Strong. Blond. Superfluous. How disappointing after the really good IPA!
77ships (14506) reviewed Ben's Strong Blond from Delhaize 11 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 4
75 cl. bottle @ home. Procured from Delhaize. Hazy orange first, murky darker peach brown towards the end of the bottle, HUGE head that fills almost the whole glass, collapsing, fluffy white bubbles. Smells of esters, fusels, grain alcohol, chemical applesauce note, wash powder, dough. Lots of fusels, esters, bitter grains, rotting peach, chemical applesauce, aspirin, medicinal bitter, dough, bitter green leaves, burning boozy, grain alcohol. Very high carbonation. This is just awful like a high fermentation equivalent of malt liquor without any fun. This wasn’t cheap & made me feel like an alcoholic. This tastes like one of those Belgians where they just went for maximum ABV at the expense of everything, this represents the worst of Belgian brewing. Technically solid but this is just rubbish in a pretty bottle & the bucket suggest to put the bottle in an ice bucket, who does that? The booklet says that this kind of beer is high in ABV but easy to drink, seriously? This tastes like diluted cheap jenever & not beer, this isn’t easy to drink. I never particularly cared for Ben Vinken but before this, it was never personal. Awful. I stand 100 % by this review & I feel the need to underline that because he seems like one of those guys that sends you hate mail regarding your rating for his beer. Damn, I was hoping that the Belgian beer landscape to start moving past this kind of nonsense.