Funky Blonde Ale
Belgian Beer Brewing in Unknown, Belgium 🇧🇪
Brewed at/by: De Wilde BrouwersBelgian Style - Blonde / Pale / Amber Regular
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Score
6.58
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Proposed food pairing: cheese, seafood, pasta & poultry
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mike_77 (15880) reviewed Funky Blonde Ale from Belgian Beer Brewing 4 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5
Pale blond colour with light haze. Light malty taste although a bit watery and thin. Don't let the name fool you, it's absolutely not funky. It's a straightforward Belgian Blond with a little bit of a yeasty aftertaste.
tderoeck (22946) reviewed Funky Blonde Ale from Belgian Beer Brewing 4 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
13/V/21 - 33cl bottle from De Hopduvel (Gent), shared @ Akke’s place, BB: 2/XII/22 (2021-382)
Clear to little cloudy blond yellow beer, small creamy white bit irregular head, stable, adhesive, leaving some lacing in the glass. Aroma: citrus, some tropical fruits even, grapefruit, yeasty, some banana. MF: ok carbon, medium body. Taste: yeasty start, banana, citrus notes, somewhat herbal and spicy. Aftertaste: floral, yeasty touch, some citrus and pineapple, nice bitterness, surprisingly good as this looked like just another regular Belgian style blonde.
Alengrin (11675) reviewed Funky Blonde Ale from Belgian Beer Brewing 4 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Blonde quencher developed by a 'bierfirma' deep in Wallonia, devoting itself to the local canard de la Semois breed and ecological sustainability - noble enough in itself for me, but what I thoroughly detest, is the fact that they present themselves as a brewery which clearly they are not. My classification of this beer, the only one so far they commercialize since 2020 when they went 'commercial', under Wilde Brouwers (near Ghent) is based on circumstancial evidence, but of course it is up to the admins to find out if it is really brewed there - a trusted 'beer-conscious' acquaintance recognized Wilde's kettles on one of this client brewer's pictures posted on social media. I would also like to add that calling yourself Belgian Beer Brewing is hardly original, to say the least... Anyway, on to the beer: irregularly edged, sparsely lacing, moussy, eggshell-whiite, uneven-bubbled yet stable head on a misty ochre-blonde beer with warm peachy hue. Aroma of sweet apples and even a vague hint of apple sauce, ripe Doyenné pear, potato mash, soggy sandwiches, coriander seed, hint of white grape, honey, vague sweaty note, steamed broccoli, sugared lemon juice accent, clove, nutmeg, raw button mushroom, cooked noodles of three days old, even a whiff of yellow curry powder faraway in the background. Estery onset, hinting at the typically Belgian 'banana' but also ripe pear, pineapple and slight peach somewhere, sweetish with a vague sourish undertone, lively carbonated with minerally side effects; smooth, slick body. Bready and doughy, cereally pale maltiness, straightforward, with a zesty edge in the end - almost like old dried lemon peel and actually quite refreshing; coriander seed spiciness, hints of nutmeg and parsley appearing as well, slight broccoli-like vegetable aspect - and soft, mild, short-lasting floral hop bitterishness, mingled with yeasty breadiness and prevalent phenolic spiciness. Fruity esters and even that 'basic' sourishness linger more than the hops, but that does not mean that the word 'funky' is in order here: there is nothing more 'funky' about this beer than dozens or even hundreds of other Belgian blondes. That said, the sourish streak passing through it, unintentional as it probably is, does create a different 'layer' of flavours underneath the clichés; if I am being very friendly, I would say that this is a happy accident actually improving a very boring and bland standard Belgian blonde. In reality, though, it is probably an unwanted infection coming up, but I do believe I sense a streak of Wilde's house style here so if that is anything to go by, I still put my bet on Wilde Brouwers as the physical place where this is brewed (and thank you, Suzan Kok, for assisting in debunking this 'bierfirma'!).