Blond
Brouwerij De 6 Helmen in Gent, East Flanders, Belgium 🇧🇪
Brewed at/by: DilewynsFarmhouse - Saison Regular
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Score
6.52
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Crabbelaer is a blond beer of the saison type ale, made with 3 kinds of malt and an aromatic duo of hop varieties. It is characterized by its creamy collar and light cloudiness imparted by the combination of wheat malt and yeast. The smooth flavour lingers long on the palate and is overlaid by subtle hints of apricot and pineapple. With its slightly acidic edge and excellent rounded bitter notes, Crabbelaer is ideal as an aperitif or the perfect accompaniment for a meal.
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6.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Huge, dense & fine if later fluffy white head, faintly yellowish tinted by clear pale yellow beer, faintly greenish and lively carbonated. End of bottle solid yeast. Herbal/grassy nose, faintly lactic. Quite hoppy, herbal-bitterish flavour, slowly giving way to grassy, pale maltflavours, suggesting white candi sugar. Faint acidity from the CO². Warming up, becomes a bit soapy. Quite carbonated feel, slick, light to medium bodied. Nice bitterish ale. Nothing breathtaking or exotic, but pleasing.
Tried
from Bottle
on 13 Sep 2014
at 09:10
7.3/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 9
Zomerbierfestival 14 Pours white-blonde . Huge white head . Smell is less intense than the De Graal Version . Bit sweet, Grainy . Too high carbonation . Taste is Grainy , bit sweet , with a very long bitter finish ( in contradiction to the other version ) Earlier Rating: 7/6/2014 Total Score: 3.7Zomerbierfestival 2014 Pours clear blonde - white . Smell is sweet , grainy . Taste is bitter , honey , grainy . Ok
Tried
on 07 Jul 2014
at 02:44
6.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Imported from my RateBeer account as Crabbelaer Blond (by Brouwerij De 6 Helmen):
Aroma: 7/10, Appearance: 4/5, Taste: 6/10, Palate: 3/5, Overall: 13/20, MyTotalScore: 3.3/5
25/I/14 - 33cl bottle from the brewer @ Nieuwjaarsreceptie Gentse Biervereniging - BB: VI/2015 (2014-124) Thanks to Kristof for sharing the bottle!!
Clear blond beer, creamy white head, pretty stable, non adheisve. Aroma: very yeasty, spicy, ginger, orange peel, some coriander. MF: lots of carbon, medium body. Taste: very yeast, some coriander, citrus, orange peel, spicy, pretty bitter, grassy, bit soapy. Aftertaste: citrus, bitter hops, bit soapy, coriander, some alcohol. Interesting to hear from the brewer that apparently there is not coriander used in this brew. The saison yeast probably brings forth some of those alkaline characteristics that remind me of coriander.
Aroma: 7/10, Appearance: 4/5, Taste: 6/10, Palate: 3/5, Overall: 13/20, MyTotalScore: 3.3/5
25/I/14 - 33cl bottle from the brewer @ Nieuwjaarsreceptie Gentse Biervereniging - BB: VI/2015 (2014-124) Thanks to Kristof for sharing the bottle!!
Clear blond beer, creamy white head, pretty stable, non adheisve. Aroma: very yeasty, spicy, ginger, orange peel, some coriander. MF: lots of carbon, medium body. Taste: very yeast, some coriander, citrus, orange peel, spicy, pretty bitter, grassy, bit soapy. Aftertaste: citrus, bitter hops, bit soapy, coriander, some alcohol. Interesting to hear from the brewer that apparently there is not coriander used in this brew. The saison yeast probably brings forth some of those alkaline characteristics that remind me of coriander.
Tried
from Bottle
on 25 Jan 2014
at 12:01