Grimbergen Fleur d'Abbaye
Brouwerijen Alken-Maes in Alken, Limburg, Belgium 🇧🇪
Belgian Style - Blonde / Pale / Amber Regular|
Score
6.24
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Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 3.5
Bottle in Reimes. Grainy fresh nose. The beer starts fresh and smooth, mild and grainy, refreshing smith with malty sweetness. Round and refreshing.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Fles gekocht in Mersch, Luxemburg. Geprobeerd met LiekevdV. Het is een goudgeel bier met een volle schuimkraag. Het heeft een bloemige geur, de smaak is een wat zoeter bloemig blond bier.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Small, just off-white head over clear golden beer with fine carbonation. Creamy nose, faintly yeasty & spicy, touch herbal. I suspect white candi sugar. Light spicy flavour, dry grains, bit dull but not oxydized. Again some yeast, and the high attenuation again points towards white candi sugar. Bit of honey warming up. Dry, leaning towards empty; bit slick, good carbonation. Hmmpfff... OK. 6/4/6/3/11
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 4.5
21st July 2017: random tasting session at home with no one apart from Bertie the dog (who would loved to have joined in if I let him). 33cl bottle: BBD 27th Jan 2018, poured into a Westmalle Trappist chalice. Clear light golden body, bright and clean looking, on top a fast fading wispy affair of white bubbles. Aroma of sugar cane and grain/corn, taste followed the same lines, disappointed to be honest, lacked depth and ’Belgian oomph’. Feel cheated, my first Belgian beer for a month or two and this didn’t reach the parts I wanted it too.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Bottle at home. pours very clear blonde, small white head. Smell is sweet, mild Sugar notes, some malt(syrup). not super intense, but not on the nice side of sweetness. Taste is bit bitter, chemically ( but not overly extreme) some malts. Bitterness ends very fast, goes over in sweetness. high carbo. Weak body. Plain boring beer. Not as bad as some others of the big brands, but still far from what I prefer.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 5
Bottle in a pub in Ghent, new Grimbergen abbey beer I hadn’t read about before. Thick and foamy, tightly cobweb-lacing, snow white, stable head, cristal clear, very pure old gold robe with lots of visible sparkling. Not very expressive arona, hints of dry breakfast cereals and soggy corn, plastic, apple peel, minerals, sweetish but subtle elderblossom note, glue. Neutral onset, very lager-like, sweetish apple hint, reinforced by a dull sweetish and corn-like graininess, fizzy and somewhat numbing, sharp carbo, bit glueish and lightly ’rubbery’ mouthfeel. Simple cereally sweetish and sharper grainy middle, relatively light, vague elderblossom sweet note but otherwise remaining fairly dry, bit metalic, grassy (but not quite ’lemony’) hop bitterish touch. Finishes with ongoing simple grainy sweetishness and additional, plastic-like chemical notes, bland and very industrial. This is very likely a strong pale lager in disguise - I hate it when abbey beers, which are traditionally all ales in Belgium, do that, but surely this is not the only one in the industrial end of the spectrum. Grainy, bland, plastic-like with that elderblossom thing (probably some industrial extract to begin with) getting a bit lost, this more or less answers my exptectations. Poor industrial and pointless addition to the range, but drinkable within those limits.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 6
F: big, white, good retention. C: gold, clear. A: malt, caramel, floral, fruity, hint of banana. T: malt, fruity, caramel, hint of floral, light citrus, very weak bitterness, medium body, medium carbonation, another Grimbergen beer neither very bad, nor good, produced only to have another “new beer”, 33cl bottle from Carrefour market – St. Michel @ Etterbeek, Brussels.