Blond
Brouwerij De Herck in Herk-de-Stad, Limburg, Belgium 🇧🇪
Belgian Style - Blonde / Pale / Amber Regular|
Score
6.57
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Alengrin (11561) reviewed Blond from Brouwerij De Herck 4 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Saying that this new Limburg brewery's output so far is uninspired, is an understatement: after the dubbel and the tripel, here is the blonde. Thick, foamy, tightly plaster-like lacing, egg-white, pillowy, stable head on an initially crystal clear, warm 'metallic' deep old-golden beer with lively sparkling, turning misty and a bit more orangey with sediment. Aroma of banana mush, white bread dough, soapy coriander seed, fried red apple, ripe peach, fresh camomile, an unfortunate whiff of DMS (overcooked broccoli), cloves, hints of ginger, orange flesh and orange peel (probably curaçao being used as a flavouring), pumice, damp earth. Estery onset, clear banana ester mingled with ripe peach, cooked apple and pear impressions, sweet, lively carbonated with minerally effect; slick but rather 'full' body, honeyish residual sugar sweetness thickly draped over a pleasantly bready maltiness, soapy towards the end especially when the coriander effect sets in, but ending with lingering floral and mildly peppery hop bitterness, honeyish sweetness, estery fruitiness, clove-like phenols and that citrus peel aspect returning. The DMS is weak enough to disturb only orthonasally for those who are sensitive to it (like me) but does not manage to ruin the beer retronasally - so I can more or less overlook this off-flavour, considering that in its basic structure and execution, this is clearly the best of the three Herck beers; it does, however, remain a completely predictable, redundant run-of-the-mill sweet and accessible blonde for the masses.
Rubin77 (10150) reviewed Blond from Brouwerij De Herck 4 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
33cl bottle from Prik & Tik Dranken Marlou. F: thin, white, not long lasting. C: gold, hazy. A: malty, orange peels, spicy, bit honey, fruity, banana. T: medium malty base, banana, orange peels, spicy, bit bready, medium carbonation, not bad, enjoyed.