Slurfke Blond
Brouwerij Vanhonsebrouck in Emelgem, West Flanders, Belgium 🇧🇪
Belgian Style - Blonde / Pale / Amber Regular|
Score
6.25
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tderoeck (22946) reviewed Slurfke Blond from Brouwerij Vanhonsebrouck 5 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5
12/IX/20 - 33cl bottle from Geers (Oostakker), shared @ George’s remembrance dinner (Martijn’s place), BB: I/2021 (2020-906)
Pretty clear blond beige beer, big creamy off-white head, stable, bit adhesive. Aroma: very yeasty, banana, somewhat floral, almonds, pretty oxidized impression, malty, sugary. MF: ok carbon, medium to light body. Taste: bit sweet, pretty oxidized, sugary, malty, almonds, soft bitterness, bitter touch. Aftertaste: oxidized, bit sugary, spicy touch, floral notes.
Alengrin (11675) reviewed Slurfke Blond from Brouwerij Vanhonsebrouck 6 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 4.5
The original Slurfke, a redundant brown beer that began life as something entirely fictitious from a popular Flemish television soap opera, got company in August of this year, in the form of a blonde and a white (witbier) version. This blonde one has a medium sized, mousy, snow white, stable but opening head and an initially cristal clear, pale and pure straw-golden blonde colour, turning misty and a bit ochre-tinged with sediment. Aroma of chewing gum, soggy breakfast cereals, white sugar, banana milkshake, apricot jam, rubber, mineral water, some coriander seed, hint of freshly cut grass. Sweet onset in a dull, simplistic way, clear banana ester as expected - dominating whatever subtle apricot and apple peel suggestions may be found; spritzy, bit stingy, very minerally carbonation, supple, bit thinnish but very slick mouthfeel with a notably soapy and somewhat glueish kind of quality to it. Smooth cereally maltiness, bit grainy even, with a very light bready touch to it; the banana ester unsurprisingly becomes very bubblegummy towards the end, where it meets that other great Belgian cliché, the dull, sweetish spiciness and soapiness of coriander seed (the implicitly 'secret' spice of the ingredients list is not so hard to guess, is it...). Some grassy hops provide a basic background bitterness in the end, but the cereally-sweetish, coriander-soapy and banana-bubblegummy effects prevail, along with that outspoken minerally aspect. After the original brown version, my expectations of this one were not high to say the least, but once again Van Honsebrouck manages to disappoint me even in spite of that. This is even more redundant than its predecessor, nailing every single cliché in the popular 'Belgian blonde' style effortlessly and adding absolutely nothing to it; even within that style, this is among the most boring examples I had in a long time. Semi-industrial, bland and - more than anything - completely unnecessary beer, if the original Slurfke in my opinion has little 'raison d'être' if any at all, then this one manages to border on the nihilistic.