Moonfield
Van Den Bossche in Sint-Lievens-Esse, East Flanders, Belgium 🇧🇪
Belgian Style - Blonde / Pale / Amber Special|
Score
6.97
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Alengrin (11609) reviewed Moonfield from Van Den Bossche 1 year ago
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 7.5 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Spiced blonde created for a music festival in Mol in the Kempen region but sold in several other places as well – such as the Zappa café in Scheldewindeke, where I got it from tap. Allegedly brewed under commission by Van Den Bossche, though no such information is disclosed on the label… Very dense, towering high, rocky, snow white, very tightly lacing and very stable head, hazy pale straw blonde robe with greenish tinge. Aroma of bread crumbs, coriander seed, freshly cut grass, fresh cucumber, green pear, halfripe banana, meadowsweet, dandelion leaves, flour and buttercups. Crisp onset from sharp and painfully numbing overcarbonation adding a lot of minerality; essentially sweetish, with notes of pear, green melon and light banana, lingering over a smooth pale maltiness with wheaty, powdery, white-bready core (not sure if wheat was actually used here but I suspect it was). Floral, grassy hop character, again meadowsweet, sweetclover and other field and marsh flowers, along with a touch of dried lemongrass; coriander seed as well, adding to that powdery effect, while the hops provide a medium long, altogether mild yet effective end bitterness. Crisp and focused, with some sharper edges mainly due to that overcarbonation (could be the tap system though – I should revisit this one from a bottle), but in being so, very refreshing as well. Decent blonde with clear witbier features in a sleek kind of way – better than I was expecting, really.
jefverstraete (7489) reviewed Moonfield from Van Den Bossche 2 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Draft @ Zappa, Moortsele. Hazy blond colour, white foam. Nose of citrus, some banana, some notes of biscuits, light bitter, some sweetness. Nice.