Hopduvel Blondine (...-2014)
Brouwerij Van Steenberge in Ertvelde, East Flanders, Belgium 🇧🇪
Belgian Style - Tripel Regular Out of Production|
Score
6.30
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From De Hopduvel's website (for both Blondine and Brunette):
Deze bieren worden alle gebrouwen in de brouwerij Van Steenberge te Ertvelde. Er wordt enkel en alleen zuivere mout gebruikt, wat de lichtjes ambere kleur van Blondine verklaart. Het is immers onmogelijk om uit zuivere mout een perfect blond bier te brouwen, daar de mout zelf altijd lichtjes gekleurd is en dit zich laat zien bij de bieren van 7% alcohol en meer. De eigen smaak en aroma werd verkregen door de typische brouwwijze bij Van Steenberge en door de toevoeging van aromaten, waaronder koriander en gedroogde sinaasappelschil. Voor de nagisting werd een speciale gist gebruikt, die voor andere brouwsels in de brouwerij niet worden aangewend. Het brouwen gebeurt voor de beide bieren volledig separaat.
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Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Bottle @ home, shared with Thompson. Cloudy, hazy pale yellow color, big white head that’s quickly gone. Smell some sour hints and some slight bitterness. Tastes about the same. Average carbonation, low to medium body.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Pours well, decent head and a yellowish body. Aroma of hops and sugar. Taste is grains and a bit of coriander it seems, leading to a dry and bitter finish. Decent but simple.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6.5
Hazy blond with giant soapy foam head. Citrusy nose. Flavour is fresh with citrusy hop and a little acidity. Thin texture. Intense carbonation.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Bottle, 9%. Vinous aroma, hint of champagne. Cloudy yellow colour. Slightly sweet malty flavour, slightly spicy. OK fruity, slightly yeasty.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 5.5
33cl bottle from Dranken Geers. Deepish gold beer, with almost no head. Faint Belgian yeast aroma. It’s an ok blond, but just like a hundred others. A bit of mould on the finish though. Bit too metallic on the carbonation
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Bottle @ home.Clear medium orange color with a average, frothy, good lacing, mostly lasting, off-white to white head. Aroma is light malty, moderate hoppy, flowers, perfume, moderate yeasty, soap, fruity - pear and wood notes. Flavor is moderate sweet and bitter with a average to long duration. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is lively. (280608)
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
25 cL bottle. Pours slight cloudy yellow to orange with a collapsing white head. Dry spiced and light malty aroma. Flavour starts slight sweet before it goes yeasty fruity and followed by a light spice note. Ends lingering spiced and with a touch of orange peel. Dry finish.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6
Pretty aged sample. Unbelievable flocculation in the glass, all kinds of UFO’s swirling through heavy carbonation forming a medium, white head. Oxydized nose, peanuts and Brazil nuts, sweet, hints at portwine and (sweetened) yoghurt. Rather sourish taste initially, lactic, wheat (?), or other, poorer grains as rye. Enormous amount of restsugars, resulting in a very sweet taste that is strenghtened by the alcohol. Well bodied, slick, alcoholburn. It’s not thàt old, but suffered terribly through the oxydation.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Bottled, thanks sayravai. Hazy yellow colour, mediumsized white semicreamy head. Aroma is sweet sugary, with acidic fruits, alcohol and yeast in it. Flavour is sweet sugary witbier-like with hints of apples and sourness. Basic beer, but still very drunkable!
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5
An unclear orange beer with large clumps of sediment floating around - but it is also around two years old. The head is small and off-white. The flavor is sweet spicy, while the flavor is sweet with notes of alcohol, yeast, and fruit.