Blondor
Brouwerij Breda in Leuven, Flemish Brabant, Belgium 🇧🇪
Witbier Regular|
Score
6.55
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Rubin77 (10187) reviewed Blondor from Brouwerij Breda 3 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
25cl bottle from Carrefour market @ in Tervuren near Brussels. F: medium, white, average retention. C: blonde, hazy. A: malty, wheat, banana, coriander, spicy, pear, DMS touch. T: medium malty base, banana, coriander, spicy, pears, bit orange, bready, medium carbonation, good, enjoyed.
tderoeck (22711) reviewed Blondor from Brouwerij Breda 4 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 6.5
10/X/21 - 25cl bottle from Willems (Grobbendonk), shared @ verjaardagsfeestje Anniek, BB: 20/VII/22 (2021-1147)
Clear blond yellow beer, small creamy irregular white head, pretty stable, non adhesive. Aroma: banana, malty, grains, bit spicy, dirty, hint of sulphur. MF: lively carbon, medium body. Taste: nice wheat acidity up front, bit malty, quite some banana, soft bitterness, bit yeasty. Aftertaste: malty, bit spicy, grains, sweet touch, some ripe banana.
mike_77 (15875) reviewed Blondor from Brouwerij Breda 4 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
Straw blond with light haze and thin foaming head. Lots of grain in the aroma. Flavour has a citrus tang. Wheaty and quite dry which is a pleasant change for this often too sweet style.
Alengrin (11609) reviewed Blondor from Brouwerij Breda 5 years ago
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
One of the first commercial beers by Brouwerij Breda in Leuven, a resurrection of an ancient brewery there with the same name, that has allegedly been active from the early 17th century till the seventies, when it was taken over by Artois (the original 'core' of AB InBev) and then closed - one of those many examples of valuable small breweries that got lost in the 20th-century carousel of acquisitions. This one represents the 'ordinary', familiar witbier in the range, but I would not take the 'old Leuven recipe' too literally: it is true that Leuven has a long tradition of witbiers just like e.g. Hoegaarden, but the original witbier variant there was Peterman - not coincidentally another beer by this renewed Breda brewery. This 'Blondor' on the other hand is clearly made according to the Hoegaarden template, including the coriander seed and curaçao spicing that were added to Hoegaarden witbier by Pierre Celis in the late sixties. Anyway: mousy, snow white, fizzy head, quickly opening and dissolving into a thin ring, over a hazy straw blonde beer with apricot hue. Aroma of dried out white bread, strong coriander seed indeed, soap (wheat!), banana, unfortunately very pronounced DMS (overcooked white cabbage), ripe pear, cloves, candied lemon peel and some lemon zest, raw potato, honey. Sweetish onset with very strong isoamylacetate (banana), mixed with notes of pear, peach and pineapple, medium carbonation, supple and evidently 'witbier-soapy' mouthfeel; pleasant bready malt core though quite thinly so, softened by the oats and soured by the wheat, the latter also adding a soapy effect as is to be expected from the genre. Before long, a strong coriander seed effect turns up, colouring the finish along with indeed a dried citrus peel 'fraîcheur' - the typical combo one expects from the style, matching well with the wheat soapiness, lingering bready yeasty effects and a very mild, but structurally important floral hop bitter touch. Too bad for that DMS - I am really very sensitive to it - but ignoring that flaw, this is admittedly a refreshing, elegant wheat beer, one that matches the old Hoegaarden standard, but with a more 'artisanal' feel to it - even though everything remains very accessible and predictable for a Belgian wit. Not too bad, but I am mostly looking forward to that Peterman, if only for 'intellectual' (beer history) reasons.