shared by tderoeck

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6.5

7/VIII/21 - 33cl bottle from the brewery, shared @ home, BB: 27/VII/21 (2021-740)

Clear orange blond beer, small creamy white head, unstable, non adhesive. Aroma: banana, very yeasty, bit malty, grains, little herbal. MF: ok carbon, medium body. Taste: very sweet start, ripe banana, fruity, alcohol. Aftertaste: little bitter, yeasty, sweet, lots of alcohol, oxidized, banana peel.

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6.5

30 May 2021. At Brouwbar; cheers to Anke & Ama Deke! Clear golden, small, foamy, white head. Aroma of ripe banana, canned peach, apricot, plum, yeast, clove, white bread, pear. Taste has sweet banana, peach & apricot over a tangible malty base of white bread & dough, bit wheaty sour, vague spicy accents. Grassy hoppy finish, bit bitter, yet maintaining ripe fruit, dough and warming jenever-like alcohol. Medium body, oily texture, average carbonation. Quite typical, with a Brouwbar touch; likeable.

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

New variation on Brouwbar’s strong blondes (after B17 in 2018 and SB32 in 2019), this time dry-hopped with Mosaic. Thick, snow white, cobweb-lacing, slowly opening, irregularly edged head on a misty deep ‘old gold’ coloured beer with almost ‘rusty’ tinge. Aroma of freshly cut red apple and Conference pear, white bread dough, Poire William, banana peel, leftover dough, kiwi, minerals. Fruity, sweetish onset, halfripe banana, ripe pear and apricot, nowhere cloying though, with soft carb and full, rounded, slick body; doughy, white-bready malts, something honeyish resounding and maintaining a generally sweet impression without it becoming too much, minerally side effects, soft floral hoppiness providing a grassy end bitterness and delicate kiwi- and jasmin-like retronasal aromas (the Mosaic speaking, though softly so). A bready-yeasty touch and warming gin-like alcohol linger in the finish. Accessible to the general Belgian palate even with the inclusion of a New World hop variety, because this variety performs a supporting role here rather than dominate the main stage; deliberately simple, easygoing, slim and slender, a tad more so than the two previous strong blondes Brouwbar produced in earlier years. Enjoyable enough.