VB82 Vienna Blonde
Brouwbar in Ghent, East Flanders, Belgium 🇧🇪
Golden / Blonde Ale Regular|
Score
7.03
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nathanvc (6963) reviewed VB82 Vienna Blonde from Brouwbar 3 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
3 July 2022. At Brouwbar. Cheers to Anke, mom & dad!
Hazy orange-amber, stable, frothy, off-white head. Aroma of biscuit, caramel, plum, orange peel, dried banana, apricot, sugared peanut. Taste has sweetish plum, apricot & vague banana in a softly caramelly, peanutty, brioche-like malt body (Vienna!), a tad spicy. Herbal hoppy finish, dryish bitter with lingering peanut, stonefruit & apple. Medium body, slick texture, average carbonation. Another one in the 'easygoing' range of Brouwbar, this time the Vienna malt makes a bit more remarkable.
Alengrin (11609) reviewed VB82 Vienna Blonde from Brouwbar 3 years ago
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7.5 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 8
With the approach of the Gentse Feesten, the yearly ten-days city festival setting old Ghent on fire, Brouwbar apparently sought to create an easygoing, accessible quencher for the masses to come - and indeed the masses were there, during my two visits so far, so I can only assume this blonde ale is a success during these Gentse Feesten. Snow white, slightly irregular, cobweb-lacing, medium thick head over a hazy peach blonde beer with pale orangey tinge. Aroma of dry biscuit, dried orange peel, bread crumbs, fried sweet potato, lemonbalm, raw parsnip, minerals. Clean onset, some sweet ripe apricot and pear fruitiness but certainly not as sweet and estery as the typical Belgian blonde, fizzily carbonated with slick, bit oily mouthfeel; rusk- and cracker-like maltiness from the Vienna malt, very smooth and rounded, working to a mildly citric, somewhat leafy hop bitterness, bringing things to balance without overpowering them - the breadiness of malts and a pinch of yeast survives the hoppiness without any effort, but the finish is nicely dry and quenching. Clean, slick and non-estery enough to deserve classification as an Anglo-Saxon style golden ale here rather than a Belgian blonde - in that sense perfectly fitting in Brouwbar's house style, in fact this one would be the perfect introduction to that house style, with is perfect sense of elegance, balance and studied restraint. Does exactly what it is intended to do: a nice, clean, modest thirst quencher in a postmodern, 'globalized' kind of style - secretly introducing lay people to postmodern craft brewing without them even realizing it, I reckon...
gave a cheers!
tderoeck (22711) reviewed VB82 Vienna Blonde from Brouwbar 3 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
18/VII/22 - on tap @ Brouwbar (Gent), BB: n/a (2022-887)
Clear orange blond beer, small creamy yellowish head, pretty stable, a bit adhesive, leaving some lacing in the glass. Aroma: yeast, malty, grains, some caramel, fruity notes, some banana. MF: ok carbon, medium body. Taste: malty, a bit sweet, some caramel, gentle bitterness, slightly metallic, some fruity notes. Aftertaste: more grains, malts, decent stuff, fruity, some citrus, good bitterness, a bit grassy, sweet touch, hint of peach and pineapple, ok!