Small Street Hoppy Blonde
BeerSelect in Sint-Denijs-Westrem, East Flanders, Belgium 🇧🇪
Belgian Style - Blonde / Pale / Amber Regular|
Score
6.60
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La Small Street blonde est un intemporel incontournable. Douce et fruitée, cette bière est surprenante par ces arômes portés sur le fruit. En bouche, elle est bien équilibrée et très accessible avec une légère amertume.
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Benzai (24278) reviewed Small Street Hoppy Blonde from BeerSelect 5 months ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6.5 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7
Bottle at home shared with Joes. Clear pale golden color, full sized white head. Aroma and flavor are lightly malts, hayish, straw, hayish hoppy, lightly floral / blossomy, average bitterness. Not bad.
SVD (7089) reviewed Small Street Hoppy Blonde from BeerSelect 1 year ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
Bottle, golden beer, small head. Aroma is funked hops, citrus, malt, sweet. Taste is bitter, dry, yeast, sweet, malt, bitter dry aftertaste. Forgettable run of the mill belgian blonde
Alengrin (11561) reviewed Small Street Hoppy Blonde from BeerSelect 2 years ago
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 6.5 | Flavor - 6.5 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7
Another self-proclaimed brewery (in Wallonia) remaining silent about where their beer is actually brewed, but much to their great credit as far as I am concerned, was honest enough to admit that this first beer of theirs is materialized in the kettles of BeerSelect. Big and foamy, pillowy, egg-white, busily shred-lacing, very dense and stable head on an initially crystal clear, warm and pure golden beer with lots of vivid sparkling, turning misty with a light ochre tinge in the end. Aroma of ripe banana, industrial white bread, croissants, fresh lemonbalm, hard peach, green pear, considerable iron (very much confirmed by the 'hand test'), powder sugar, grass, hints of plastic, dried chamomile and papier maché. Sweetish onset, banana ester with some pear and red apple notes, minerally carbonation adding a vague sourishness, smooth and lean mouthfeel; the added iron, very likely intended as a head stabilizer, is clear enough from the start and even rises up retronasally (iron pipes) over a slender cereally pale malt sweetish body with light bready edges. Floral and grassy hop bitterness joins in towards the end, but remains mild and friendly, in spite of being a bit 'stretched'; it fades away in the favour of the pale malts, cereals and banana ester, alas. Your plain and average Belgian blonde, a tad hoppier than the most 'commercial' examples perhaps, but not nearly hoppy enough to display true character and creativity - and making things worse, containing added iron which is hard to cover up in the first place but in this case comes to the foreground quite strongly (though I had even worse cases in the past). Needs a more 'artisanal' character even if this term means very little - in any case a more 'green' and genuine hop bitterness could be a way towards improvement. In this form: utterly forgettable, I am afraid.
Sloefmans (15338) reviewed Small Street Hoppy Blonde from BeerSelect 2 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 5.5 | Texture - 5 | Overall - 5.5
Fluffy, bit greyish white head over rather big-bubbled clear golden beer. Nettles, wild hops, faint pale malts, and a few citrussy hops as well. Almonds in the background. Sweetish-chalky-green herbs. Bit fade. Well, more than a bit. Once the sweetness is gone, just a faint metallic bitterness remains. Mild carbonation, bit slick. A blonde than is hoppy in a small street? Sorry, but she misses beef to her bones. Txs to Stef!