Charlie Blond
Charliebier in Ham, Limburg, Belgium 🇧🇪
Brewed at/by: BeerSelectBelgian Style - Blonde / Pale / Amber Regular
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Score
6.49
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Alengrin (11561) reviewed Charlie Blond from Charliebier 3 years ago
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 6.5 | Flavor - 6.5 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7
The ordinary blonde in this series of Belgian beers, developed in Limburg by a guy obsessed with Charlie Chaplin apparently, hence the name. Snow white, foamy, thick and dense, cobweb-lacing head, clear pure yellow-golden robe with lively sparkling, misty with sediment. Aroma initially dominated by stingy carbon dioxide, quickly shifting to banana peel, coriander seed, cold potato mash, cold pasta, overcooked kale (DMS), grass, clove, raw black radish. Sweetish onset, some banana ester mixed with green pear, very sharply carbonated even for this style, with numbing effect; smooth cereally, bit white-bready maltiness, thinnish and very basic, bit grainy, flanked by some light soapy and spicy coriander accents and grassy hop bitterishness, which eventually becomes rather long and rooty. Meanwhile, retronasal aromas of old radish peel and cooked beans appear, downgrading my enjoyment of this beer quite a lot. Dull Belgian blonde, of a kind we have way too many moving around already, with a somewhat stale and vegetable-like aspect to it which is anything but attractive. Redundant at best.
jefverstraete (7493) reviewed Charlie Blond from Charliebier 4 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5
Clear blond colour, white foam. Nose of cereals, cow fodder, sweet malt. Tastes like a fortified pils. Unbalanced, not my taste.