Blond
De Twee Leeuwen in Raamsdonksveer, Noord-Brabant, Netherlands 🇳🇱
Golden / Blonde Ale Regular|
Score
5.92
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TomHendriksen (8276) reviewed Blond from De Twee Leeuwen 3 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 6.5
Fles gedeeld door Roelzie, geprobeerd met Romy. Het is een licht troebel goudgeel bier met een volle witte schuimkraag. Het heeft een aroma van gist en kruiden. De smaak is fris, citrus achtig met een wat droog mondgevoel. --- Beer merged from original tick of Blond on 02 Apr 2017 at 08:46 - Score: Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7. Original review text: Fles gedeeld door LiekevdV, geprobeerd met Inoven, BartvG en JoepvW. Het is een lekkere blonde met en frisse afdronk.
sjogro (11784) reviewed Blond from De Twee Leeuwen 6 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5
THT oktober. Clear golden with white head. Sweet sickly malts. Moderate sweet and bitter. Medium body and soft carbonation.
Maakun (16718) reviewed Blond from De Twee Leeuwen 6 years ago
Appearance - 5 | Aroma - 3 | Flavor - 3 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 3
Sampled at THT. Slight hazy light golden with white head. Rotten honey, sweet malts, light CO2, cardboard, rotten lemons, dead yeast. Medium sweet, light sour and bitter. Medium bodied.
Inoven (3787) reviewed Blond from De Twee Leeuwen 8 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Flesje gedeeld met familie bij de Bomkelder. Bleek gelig, troebel bier. Flink schuimend tijdens inschenken. Aroma en smaak van sinaasappel en kruiden. Nasmaak is iets hoppig.
77ships (14509) reviewed Blond from De Twee Leeuwen 9 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 2 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 4
[330 ml. bottle sampled][Purchased @ Wijnegemse Drankenhal] [BBF 08 SEP 17] Lightly hazy paler dishwashing lemon golden, fluffy white head. Nose is like spoiled milk and cereal with heavy green esters, soapy, wet rotting grains, sour milk, very unpleasant. Taste isn’t as bad as the smell but still pretty rubbish. Very heavy carbonation. Tastes is overly green weeds, unpleasant esters, soggy cereal, excessive carbonation, white bread, far less sour milk than in the nose. Rubbish Belgian Blond, almost comical beer. I don’t care at all Boelens, this is another poorly executed Belgian brew of which there seems to be an endless amount of in Belgium. The label of this one is horrendous.
Kermis (23501) reviewed Blond from De Twee Leeuwen 9 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 6
Bottle shared. Hazy orange with a huge white head. Aroma of yeast, herbs, caramel, light spicy notes and light fruits. Flavour is light moderate sweet and bitter. Medium bodied with high carbonation. [12-07-2016]
Alengrin (11675) reviewed Blond from De Twee Leeuwen 9 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 6.5
Collab between a Dutch and a Flemish home brewer commercialized through Boelens. Bottle from Wijnegemse Drankenhal. Opens with lots of pressure - I only managed to avoid serious gushing by opening the crown cap a little bit and then let it rest for five minutes, but foam still crept out of the bottle after that. Thickly ’membranous’ lacing, off-white, foamy and rocky but at the same time irregularly formed head, retaining extremely well and still completely closed after half an hour, over an initially lightly hazy, pure golden blonde beer with ’old gold’ hue and fierce sparkling, turning into a misty, deeper, slightly ochre-tinged gold with sediment, with coagulated proteins sitting firmly on the bottom of the glass. Very stereotypical ’Belgian blonde’ aroma of green apple peel, freshly grated ginger, sourdough, unripe gooseberry, freshly cut nettles, old white pepper, banana (or even a slight hint of bubblegum), lots of clove-like phenols, powder sugar, soapy coriander, cooked turnip, bitter honey, unripe melon, potato starch, soggy white bread, sweet clover, fresh camomile flowers, ripe pear, raw pineapple, straw. Very spritzy onset with fierce carbonation numbing the tongue completely and distracting from a fruity, crisp flavour mixing subdued banana- and pineapple-like sweetness with green apple- and unripe gooseberry-like sourness (with the first prevailing); soapy and still sharply carbonated middle phase with ongoing fruit esters and increasing spicy phenols over a lightly bready and somewhat grainy backbone, the phenols becoming a bit too much in the end, with almost solvent-like features; finishes dry thanks to a (relatively!) generous dose of grassy, spicy and lightly earthy hop bitterness with notable floral qualities retronasally (field flowers - camomile and sweet clover returning). Somewhat sticky, unmistakable coriander seed ’soapiness’ plays along and, to my taste, gets a bit dominant and boring in the end. Some of the phenolic and fruity yeastiness also remains, including the sweet ripe banana isoamylacetate, as well as residual white candi sugar sweetness lending a honeyish-like quality to the lingering malt sweetness. The peppery and floral hop bitterness luckily gets the last word, with a slightly resinous, earthy effect, but never gets rids of that lingering sweetness and coriander ’soapiness’. Well balanced actually, too bad it’s a near-gusher, but in terms of pure flavor, this is quite alright, with enough ’noble’ hop bitterness to counter the estery and malty sweetness. Conceptually though, this remains a very cliché Belgian blonde, perhaps a bit more hoppy and crisp than average, but incapable of extending the limits of even its own style. Technically more or less acceptable, decent flavor-wise, but at the same time overcarbonated and stereotypically ’overcoriandered’, too phenolic and not adding anything even remotely new to the broad family of Belgian ales: this is far from the worst example of an old ’Belgian blonde’ I had so far - and I had way too many already - but I honestly think it simply is no use anymore to come up with something as mundane as this in the current craft beer climate. On a general, ’philosophical’ note: beers like this, even if they would be better executed, make me a bit sad if I look at them from a contemporary craft beer perspective: it’s about time Belgium gets rid of its chauvinism and lets go of its simplistic blonde, dubbel and tripel fetish, otherwise we will be even more overwhelmed by the uncurbed enthusiasm of other European craft beer countries. The alleged Dutch influence here clearly has not too much connection with what has been happening in the Netherlands in recent years, for example. But Belgium still has a near-monopoly on spontaneous fermentation, of course...
caesar (10841) reviewed Blond from De Twee Leeuwen 9 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Bottle thx to Benzai, BB 26 jan 18, small sample. Almost clear golden color, short frothy head. Aroma is slight spicy, bit malty, slight honey sweetness. Typical belgian blonde. Bit sweet in taste, soft spicy, bit dry. Ok with dinner.
Benzai (24654) reviewed Blond from De Twee Leeuwen 9 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 6
Bottle @ home shared with Caesar. Hazy yellow color, average sized white head. Smell and taste some malts, some herbs or spices, spicy yeast, herbal bitter finish. Decent body, firm carbonation.