Brasserie 28 (previously Caulier Developpement: La Maison Caulier) Blonde Gluten Free

Blonde Gluten Free

 

Brasserie 28 (previously Caulier Developpement: La Maison Caulier) in Ghislenghien, Hainaut, Belgium 🇧🇪

  Belgian Style - Blonde / Pale / Amber Special
Score
6.10
ABV: 6.8% IBU: - Ticks: 15
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5.1/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 5 Flavor 5 Texture 6 Overall 4.5
Strangely, in the Delhaize supermarkets this beer cannot be found in the drinks department, but in the health food department... Well, this brewery is all about producing ’healthy’ low carb beers so I guess this does make some sense. Pours a yellowish golden blonde with somewhat greenish hue and a suspension of dusty yeast divided equally throughout the liquid, under a sticky, egg white head with very good retention and ’cobweb’ lacing. Unusual aroma of flowers, soap, old cake, green apple, abbey cheese, lemon peel, coriander seed and some cardboard but also an unpleasant smell of unfinished dishes or sewer water (probably H2S). Taste begins with a restrained fruitiness, unripe pear and sour berries, grainy, frankly even a little bit wry and harsh, with sharpish, minerally carbonation; grainy malts, sourishness stays till deep into the finish, where the visual yeastiness also appears in the form of a starchy, powdery, bready effect, accompanied by a leafy and slightly peppery hop bitterness and even some gin-like alcohol, which should not normally be apparent in a beer of 6.8% ABV. Would have been better if it were more explicitly fruity and if the alcohol were better hidden. In its current form, this is... well, a bit weird and wry. Not for me, though I do respect the intention of making a beer for coeiliac disease patients - but then, I think there are a lot of other and better beers out there which are also low in gluten without explicitly advertizing it. Another good reason to study beer from a biochemical and medical point of view!
Tried from Can on 09 Jan 2015 at 17:27

4.3/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 5 Flavor 3 Texture 4 Overall 3
Huge, very dense & fine head, leaving shards of lace; well-carbonated clear golden beer. Greenmalt (strange without gluten...), herb, citrus, coriander. Corianderbomb, as if all the malt were switched for the little globules. Metallic bitterness & oxydation, especially retronasal, and going into the aftertaste. Rather empty, light body. Awful.
Tried on 07 Dec 2014 at 04:42

5.1/10 Appearance 4 Aroma 5 Flavor 6 Texture 4 Overall 5.5
Bottle, courtesy of tderoeck (thanks a lot, Tim), pours a clear blonde with a small white head. Nose smells authentic enough, with Belgian yeast and light floral notes. Flavour is very similar, with Belgian yeast and dry hay. Drinkable enough, though of course not very interesting.
Tried from Bottle on 13 Jun 2014 at 14:47

6.9/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 7 Flavor 6 Texture 8 Overall 6.5
Imported from my RateBeer account as Caulier Gluten Free Blonde (by Caulier Developpement (La Maison Caulier)):
Aroma: 7/10, Appearance: 4/5, Taste: 6/10, Palate: 4/5, Overall: 13/20, MyTotalScore: 3.4/5

12/VI/14 - 33cl bottle from ZBF 2014 (Leuven) @ home, shared with McBerko - BB: 20/II/16 (2014-620)

Clear blond beer, creamy white head, little stable, bit adhesive. Aroma: very fruity, some citrus, very grassy, floral, some overripe fruits. MF: ok carbon, medium body. Taste: citrus, grains, bit sugary, sweet, grassy bitterness, bit floral with sweet malty notes. Aftertaste: bitter touch, pretty fruity, quite some banana, bit metallic.
Tried from Bottle on 12 Jun 2014 at 12:10

5.5/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 6 Flavor 5 Texture 6 Overall 5
Pours clear blonde rather small white head . Smell is rather sweet . Taste is bit bitter , sweet , kinda chemical . Ok but too sweet for me , doesnt feel very natural .
Tried on 05 Apr 2014 at 06:10