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Rolling Hills Brouwcompagnie (Formerly Known As Petre Devos) in Oudenaarde, East Flanders, Belgium 🇧🇪
Belgian Style - Blonde / Pale / Amber Regular|
Score
6.57
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Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Süffiger, hefiger und hellmalziger Beginn. Leichte Süße, spritzig, hefig, leichte Bitterkeit, rund. Mittellanger Abgang, hefig, rund, gut. 9/9/9/8/6/8
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6.5 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 6.5
Goudgeel bier met mooi stevig schuim. Smaak is bitterzoet en licht kruidig met iets van sinaasappel, nootmuskaat, wat banaan en wat gras. Heel goed.
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 5.5 | Flavor - 6.5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Blonde by Rolling Hills, the guys who started off with reviving the old Petre Devos brand in the Flemish Ardennes; bottle at café De Kleine Kunst in Ghent. Off-white, medium thick, somewhat irregular, opening head on a misty peach-tinged golden blonde beer. Aroma of quite strong DMS (old potatoes, overcooked white cabbage), unripe banana, soggy bread, withering lettuce, cooked turnips, damp straw, old dried paper glue, something vaguely sulfuric, damp straw. Dryish onset, some green pear and unripe peach fruitiness, marred by painfully stinging overcarbonation; very light banana touch through a cereally core with old white bread- and leftover dough-like aspects, adding a pinch of clove-like phenols and softly bittering earthy and floral hops in the finish, next to a more earthy yeast effect and the retronasal return of DMS. Very ordinary blonde with too much DMS and too little hops for me, lacking dramatically in the ‘fraîcheur’ this type of beer benefits so much from; not sure about the badger association, but the ‘lelijk’ (ugly) qualification seems appropriate enough, I am afraid!
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Bottle at De Dingen Kortrijk. Clear amber colour lasting white head. Some esters. Some hop Some grapefruit flavour. Some earthiness. It's fine. Malts are ok. Simple not breaking down walls. But it's competent enough. Ok
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6.5 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 5 | Overall - 6
Thick, dense, lightly yellowish head, leaving some lace over finely carbonated darker golden beer. Sweet, almondy nose, bit gassy. Sweet & toasted "hot" malts, herbs. Again those "hot" malts, toasted and spicy. Main taste has a bit bitterness, but finishes again sweet. Feels very carbonated, almost fizzy. Quite slick, not much body. I think a clever badger would go for something else. Keep to the sours and the OBs, guys, this is boring.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Hazy blond colour, white foam. Light sweet, a bit herbal, notes of coriander, a bit citrussy.
