Light hazy blond colour, white foam. A bit citrussy, herbal, some spices, light bitter finish.

Biere bouteille 33 cl, couleur blonde pale, mousse blanche peu persistante, goût léger, légérement acidulé, rien d'incroyable.

33cl bottle (as Coast Blond, brewed by Browerij Anders for Wenbrew): BB 22nd Nov 2020. Poured into a Chimay challis at home on 20th June 2019. Slight haze to the golden body. smooth white blanket of foam on top. Aroma holds that 'Belgian yeasty' goodness with a light floral twist. The taste is also Belgian style yeast first (is there such a thing?) with a fruity twang. There is a dry body feel throughout with a citrus like tartness in the finish.

Belgian blonde cultivated for the municipality of Wenduine at the Belgian seaside, from a stubby bottle bought online - but with an entirely different (blue) label than shown here. Since the back label mentions "Wenbrew" and ABV is the same, I guess this is the very same beer as rated by my colleagues below, but it must have received a different style of labelling meanwhile. Tightly but irregularly 'papery' lacing, egg-white, medium thick head remaining completely closed for quite a long time, atop an initially cristal clear, pure golden blonde beer with slightly 'old gold' hue, becoming misty with sediment (eventually with actual 'clouds' of yeast floating throughout the remainder of the beer). Aroma of chewing gum (and banana), rotting grass or even lettuce, onion jam, verripe pineapple, stewed turnip, old potato mash, spoiled vegetable soup, old coriander seed, soggy white bread or non-sugared muesli, pear, slightly medicinal phenols and - alas - a whiff of overcooked cauliflower (probably DMS), which however remains very much in the background and vanishes in the end. Estery onset, banana ester as expected but hinting at cooked pear and overripe pineapple as well with a sourish rhubarb-like touch to it, sharply (over)carbonated, minerally, fizzing, with a somewhat soapy mouthfeel. Sweetness lingers a bit but not cloyingly so, something thinly honeyish remains draped over a cereally, muesli-like, 'white' and thinly bready malt backbone, leading to an unsatisfying finish of ongoing malt sweetishness and fruitiness gently bittered by a grassy, bit herbal hoppiness as well as a soapy coriander accent, which lingers even beyond the hops. Ends soapy, sweetish, minerally and grassy bitter - like countless other Belgian blondes. I can see this functioning at the Belgian shore, served ice cold to unsuspecting tourists, but other than that, this does not seem to make any significant contribution to the Belgian beer map. I seize the opportunity to recommend those tourists, provided any of them would ever read this, to not give this beer the chance to warm up under a burning sun in the heydays of summer - because this brew's little flaws will become all the more apparent then. This is one of those Belgian brews created only for the purpose of making money - point off for that, this is exactly the tradition Belgium should get rid of, if it wants to keep playing an important part on the international beer scene. On a more positive note, though: they haven't been too mingy with the hops, as it does end quite pleasantly bittering.

Bottle. Pours clear blonde, big white head, rather fluffy, but medium stability at best. Smell is full of esthers, banana, bit citrussy notes as well, but more likely from the yeast, than from the hops. mild grassy undertone from the hops. maltyness is low, shows some white bread, but is mostly dominated by the esthers. Taste is overly yeasty / esthers, to a point it's slick, sweet, and sticky. some Sugar. low intensity of malts ( white bread ) . Medium mouthfeel, medium to medium-high carbo. Aftertaste is a mes to me ( esthers, slick, sweet , somewhat sugary ) . Don't like this too much, Way out of balance since the esthers totally dominates.

F: huge, white, good retention. C: blonde, bit hazy. A: malty, bit spicy, coriander, honey, bread, yeasty. T: malty, orange peels, metallic, bread, bit fruity, dry on the palate, not very good balanced, reminds me more pale lager than ale, grassy, medium body and carbonation quite high, nothing very tasty, 75cl bottle from Delhaize supermarket in Oostende.

Imported from untappd on 02-05-2020

Imported from my RateBeer account as Wenbrew Coast 8410 Blond (by Brouwerij Strubbe):
Aroma: 6/10, Appearance: 4/5, Taste: 6/10, Palate: 3/5, Overall: 11/20, MyTotalScore: 3/5

10/VI/17 - on tap @ Wenduins Bierfestival - BB: n/a (2017-806)

Clear pale yellow beer, creamy white head, pretty stable, bit adhesive. Aroma: bit yeasty, slightly fruity, pretty metallic. MF: ok carbon, medium body. Taste: very metallic, soft bitterness, some yeast, little fruity, hint of citrus. Aftertaste: more metallic flavours, soft bitterness, some banana, hoppy touch, bit grassy.