Clear blond colour with lasting head. Decent Blond. Some mild backnotes of pineapple. Low complexity but not bad.

Clear blond colour, white foam. Sweet, a bit fruity, some peach notes, alcohol in the finish.

Appearance: Clear gold with a decent off-white frothy head. Aroma: pale malt, overripe apples & pears, apple seeds, light perfumery. Taste: Light sweet and bitter. Pale malt, apples & pears, some alcohol, grassy hop. Mouth feel: Medium body, average carbonation. Overall: Nothing special.

Goudkleurig helder bier met schuim. Smaak is bitterzoet met wat vanille en sinaasappel. Valt wat tegen.

Can at home, golden beer, small head. Aroma is malt, sweet, fruit, hops. Taste is the same, bittersweet, fruit, hops, yeast, ok

Bavaria bought the old Belgian Palm brewery in 2016 and is finally trying to update its old-fashioned image, it seems, with this canned strong blonde, bearing the old familiar Palm logo upside down in an otherwise garish context seemingly intended to attract youthful drinkers. From the Albert Heijn supermarket in Lokeren. Thick and moussy, snow white, membrane-lacing, firm head on a crystal clear pure 'old golden' beer with metallic pale orangey tinge and lots of visible sparkling. Aroma of very pronounced isoamylacetate (banana, bubblegum), wet plaster, ripe pear, white bread dough, 4-vinyl-guaiacol (clove, even soup meat), granulated sugar, wodka, faint touch of orange juice (Varesa) when warming up. Sweet, clean, simple onset, very strong isoamylacetate as expected (banana-flavoured bubblegum, candyfloss) with some pear and sweet apple perhaps; lively carbonation but not too stingy, very bubblegummy middle, white bread-doughy core 'filled' with glucose syrup, while sugary sweetness and banana continue; some bitterish orange peel in the end but very weakly so, along with a somewhat more outspoken grassy hoppiness and retronasal clove-like phenolic spiciness. Wodka-ish alcohol is noticeable without becoming too obnoxious, while this sweet bubblegumminess persists. Indeed, Bavaria desperately tries to make Palm hip again here, in a beer that has nothing to do with Palm's own legacy and seems more like a direct competitor for AB InBev's Victoria (and we all know with which famous beer Victoria in itself tries to compete with - but let us not mention that one in this context). Boozy, overly simplistic, boring, sweet and bubblegummy strong blonde with a very industrial feel to it - heck, this is probably even a strong Bavaria lager, like Gordon's Finest Gold or some of their own brands in that segment. Granted, this one may be a notch above those, but it is in any case an utterly bland and unnecessary creation doing absolutely nothing to respect Palm's history, on the contrary. Poor Palm.

33 cl. can @ home, bought @ Albert Heijn Culemborg. Clear golden with a white head. Fruity yeasty aroma. Sweet taste with a sweet finish. Not a 'craft' beer by any means, whatever that is. Just another industrial strong pale ale but not that bad at all.