Entre Nous Blonde
Brasserie de Hosdent in Hosdent, Liège, Belgium 🇧🇪
Brewed at/by: Brasserie des CarrièresBelgian Style - Blonde / Pale / Amber Regular
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Score
6.39
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L'Entre Nous reste une bière légére (5,7°), facile à boire mais somptueuse et pleine de goût
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mithe (4490) reviewed Entre Nous Blonde from Brasserie de Hosdent 8 months ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
(sample, bottle) Hazy golden. Minimal white head. Musty, sweet, light bitter, some spicy. Something weird. Just ok.
Alengrin (11561) reviewed Entre Nous Blonde from Brasserie de Hosdent 4 years ago
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
New Walloon blonde brewed with - quite uniquely, though I have encountered it once before in a Belgian ale (Wilg by René) and a couple of times in sour ales - willow bark, often called nature's aspirin as it indeed gave rise to the discovery of acetylsalicylic acid, the active substance of aspirin. Towering high, foamy, rocky, egg-white, plaster-lacing, dense and very stable head heavily resting on an initially lightly hazed, pure 'metallic' golden beer with very strong, champagne-like sparkling sustaining the head; more deeply misty and a tad ochre-tinged with sediment, but the whirl of bubbles goes on and on. Aroma - if largely hidden away by the enormous head initially - of unripe banana, white bread crumbs, old dough, oxidized green apple slices, clear iron (actual iron as in head stabilizer - confirmed by the 'hand test'), straw, dried camomile and other herbal hints (even slightly green tea-like, probably the willow bark), raw potato juice, spring water, wet clay, chalk, soap, grass. Quite crisp, dryish, moderately fruity onset, unripe green banana and some green apple as well as hard pear but all restrained in sweetness, with the expectedly very fizzy and minerally carbonation distracting a bit, though it manages not to become harshly stinging as the bubbles remain very small; slick, soapy, even glueish body, clear oats but not in a very elegant way and soapiness coming from the wheat, surrounding a thin pale malt sweetish-bready core, yet flanked by less pleasant, outspoken iron effects (clearly iron-containing head stabilizer was used here). A 'green'-herbal element lingers in the end, quite grassy but it could indeed be fresh willow bark for all I care - followed by lingering yeasty breadiness, a mild phenolic spiciness and medium long, floral and bit leafy hop bitterness. The hops do linger a bit, which is enjoyable to my taste, but the iron and the soapiness are a bit much; distinct from the hordes of other Belgian 'quenching' blondes only in a very subtle way, though this bitterish-green-herbal effect of the willow bark is certainly there, lingering on the root of the tongue for a while after swallowing. Drinkable but unnecessary, as usual in this segment.