CB83 Classic Blonde
Brouwbar in Ghent, East Flanders, Belgium 🇧🇪
Belgian Style - Blonde / Pale / Amber Regular|
Score
7.03
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tderoeck (22711) reviewed CB83 Classic Blonde from Brouwbar 3 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
11/VIII/22 - on tap, shared @ Brouwbar (Gent), BB: n/a (2022-988)
Cloudy blond to light orange beer, big creamy off-white head, stable, adhesive, leaving some lacing in the glass. Aroma: fruity, sourish impression, bit yeasty, herbal, a little funky. MF: ok carbon, medium to light body. Taste: bitter start, dry, a bit grassy, a little yeasty, floral hops, bitter, malty backbone. Aftertaste: bitter, floral, a bit yeasty, a little sourish, fruity, some banana, more yeast.
Alengrin (11609) reviewed CB83 Classic Blonde from Brouwbar 3 years ago
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7
Released right after a blonde with Vienna malt, this one takes Brouwbar's attempt to reach a wide audience one step further and omits the Vienna malt altogether, keeping things as simple as possible, with only pale malt - so in a sense, this is one of Brouwbar's most 'basic' beers so far. Irregularly edged, snow white, cobweb-lacing, slowly diminishing and opening head on a misty apricot-yellow blonde beer with vague pale-orangey tinge. Aroma of ripe apricots, banana peel, moist white pepper, dry linden tree leaves and linden blossoms, touch of mandarin somewhere, apple core, grass, hint of leftover dough. Smooth fruitiness in the onset, a whiff of banana and a touch of apple with a light sweet peach note, fizzily carbonated with slick body; clean, cereally pale maltiness indeed, only vaguely sweetish with slightly drying finish, a tad powdery to even starchy in the very end and mildly bittered by an echo of bitter-plant-like hoppiness deliberately kept 'tame'. Bready and apple-like impressions linger at the back. This is indeed Brouwbar at its most basic, but at its most 'typical' as well: subtly, sometimes almost 'sneakily' infusing their beers with a touch of (New World) craft, with a degree of elegance and finetuned balance not many brewers achieve. It takes an experienced observer to notice this, I suppose...