Ch'Ti Blonde
Castelain in Bénifontaine, Hauts-de-France, France 🇫🇷
Farmhouse - Bière de Garde Regular|
Score
6.12
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After brewing and fermentation, CH’TI beers is kept for long weeks in storage tanks. In the calm and cool (0°C) environment, the beer matures, develops a finer taste, perfects its aroma and acquires its natural and characteristic sparkles. It is here also that the beer obtains its balance, finesse and gleam. The Blonde is brewed since 1979.
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6.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Bottled. (75cl) Slightly hazy light beer with a white head. Fruitiness, sweetness and some mouldy elements. Sweet, fruity flavor with yeast and barnyard. Light bitterness in the finish. (051104)
Tried
from Bottle
on 30 Nov 2005
at 15:47
5.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Golden in colour. White head, leaving a lace on the glass. A perfumed aroma. Also grassy aroma. Sweet flavor but also spicy flavour. A little think mouthfeel and a grassy and hoppy aftertaste.
Tried
on 20 Oct 2005
at 16:02
6.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 4
Overall 6.5
75cl bottle from Auchan. Golden beer with thick white lasting head. Nicely perfumed aroma. Good hops come through in mouth and on to finish. Some candy sugar. Refreshing with good hoppy finish. Soft in mouth. Nice biere de garde
Tried
from Bottle
on 17 Oct 2005
at 15:41
7.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
750 ml bottle, corked "champagne" style, bought in Denmark. Pale golden colour, like a pilsener. Enormous and lingering fluffy white head, leaves a nice lacing. Delicate yeasty aroma with notes of grass, flowers and honey. Pleasant mild flavour with a certain spicyness and decent hops, but light bodied for its 6.4% ABV. Well balanced and "dangerously drinkable".
Tried
from Bottle
on 18 Aug 2005
at 13:05
7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
(Bottle 33 cl) Golden beer with a nice, dense head. Extremely aromatic, slightly perfumy with a very refined hoppy structure. A lovely beer. 010901
Tried
from Bottle
on 01 Aug 2005
at 16:10
6.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 6.5
Nice appearence excellent lasting head, OK aroma and good flavour. A beer I would bye again. It feels good!!!!!
Tried
on 07 Jul 2005
at 13:59
5.8/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 5
Bottled (BB 11/2005)
Typical lager color. Foamy small white head. Fruity and sweet aroma of banana and apricot. Medium-bodied sugary palate. Sweet apricot, malts taste with rounded mouthfeel. Sweet oily aftertaste. Hides alcohol completely.
Typical lager color. Foamy small white head. Fruity and sweet aroma of banana and apricot. Medium-bodied sugary palate. Sweet apricot, malts taste with rounded mouthfeel. Sweet oily aftertaste. Hides alcohol completely.
Tried
from Bottle
on 07 Nov 2004
at 01:44
3.6/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 4
Flavor 3
Texture 4
Overall 3.5
Bottled. Golden colour. Sweet and raw, fruity and buttery. Rounded mouthfeel. Perhaps the worst example there is of the style.
Tried
from Bottle
on 17 May 2004
at 10:27
6.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Clear-golden; big bubbles to slim white rim. Cookies, crystal malts and white candi sugar in the nose. Taste is again quite malty, this time with both honeyish notes, as well as faint grassy hops. Definitely honey retronasal. Rather light palate and mouthfeel. Undercarbonated. I hate these new-style bottles. I wonder if the low carb is a result. To me, Br. Castelain is the North-French equivalent of Br. D'Achouffe here. Became too big and too preofessional to do anything technically wrong, and too big to do anything brilliant. And this is not a real Bière de Garde character anymore.
Tried
from Can
on 30 Dec 2003
at 14:33
5.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 5
Texture 4
Overall 5.5
Honeyish malt aroma. Golden, champagne bubbles, lowish head. Light flavor, honey malt base,slight fruity overtones. Yeast finish. Lightbody, fizzy mouthfeel. Refreshing,but not really special.
Tried
on 31 Oct 2003
at 13:44