Blonde / Bière de Flandre / Originale (prev. St. Sylvestre Bière de Flandre)
Brasserie des 3 Monts / Saint-Sylvestre in Saint-Sylvestre-Cappel, Hauts-de-France, France 🇫🇷
Farmhouse - Bière de Garde Regular|
Score
6.37
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A refreshing ale with a strong character; its fruity taste comes from barley grown in the Nord department of France and its highly aromatic yeast, its bitterness from a specific variety of hops.
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6.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 5
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 4.5
It pours crystal-clear pale golden with a huge rocky off-white head. Aroma is quite mild: soft lemon, porridge, grits. Taste is soft, fresh, slightly sweet and not bitter at all. Drinkable but not really enjoyable.
Tried
on 10 Oct 2017
at 07:44
7.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7
From old tasting notes. Deep golden orange color. Huge rocky yellowish head. Intense tart perfumy aroma. Strong, sweet tangy flavor upfront with a big malty champagne like character. Yeasty midtaste yields to an intense bittersweet finish. Long delicious bittersweet aftertaste. Very like a Saison Ale from Belgium. Splendid lacing.
Tried
on 12 Aug 2017
at 20:40
5.3/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 4
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 5
4 3 6 3 9 Bottle, shared at July THT, in front of Kwartje. Last time I had this was probably in the ’90s. Clear golden yellow color. Off white head. Aroma’s: fruit, cardboard, perfumey. Retronasal there’s some cork, fruit, sweetness. Flavor is moderate sweet, a bit alcoholic. Medium bodied. I seem to remember this as a decent bière de garde, but this is just a bland strong blond.
Tried
from Bottle
on 08 Jul 2017
at 04:45
6/10
Tried
on 07 Jul 2017
at 20:06
5.3/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 5
THT July, outside of Kwartje. Bottle courtesy of puttetjes. Clear pale straw with white head. Sweet malts, dry malts, marzipan, cinnamon, cardboard, light spices. Moderate sweet and light bitter. Soft carbonation.
Tried
from Bottle
on 07 Jul 2017
at 13:06
3.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 3
Flavor 3
Texture 4
Overall 3
3 3 3 2 5Bottle shared at THT July. Clear golden with a white head. Aroma of cardboard, grains and malt. Flavour is above moderate sweet. Light bodied with soft carbonation.
Tried
from Bottle
on 07 Jul 2017
at 13:06
5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 4
Texture 6
Overall 5
Bottle shared at the July THT. Clear light straw yellow with a thin white head. Cardboard, lots of sugar, cardboard, artificial fruitness.
Tried
from Bottle
on 07 Jul 2017
at 13:05
7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
crystal clear golden colour, huge, white head; aroma of grains, bread, wine cellar, floral and slight fruity notes, as well as some linden honey and earth; taste is dominated by honey sweetness with grainy, yeasty and some white wine notes; spicy alcoholic aftertaste; enjoyable beer’ --- Beer merged from original tick of Biere de Flandre Blonde on 01 Dec 2023 at 19:22 - Score: Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5. Original review text: clear golden colour, large, dense white head, which lasts for several minutes; aroma of citrusy, grainy, apple peel, hay and some floral notes; taste has the same notes as can be felt in the aroma with some hoppy notes; quite good one
Tried
on 02 Jun 2017
at 13:29
6.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6
From a 750ml bottle on 10/5/2017. Pours a clear light golden with a big fluffy white head. Looks suspiciously like a pale lager. The nose is slight, with some earthy and basement notes. Take a sip and there’s lots of bready malt, some citrus, white grape, and a sharp, ever so slightly sour, lingering bitterness. It tastes reasonably big and you get a bit of booze. The palate is quite slick and syrupy, with average carbonation. Drinkable and consuming a bottle has one feeling rather jolly, but fails to inspire.
Tried
from Bottle
on 10 May 2017
at 06:05
5.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
14th July 2025: 330ml bottle after finishing the 555km North Cuesta MTB race. Seems much fresher than it's previous incarnation, slight improvement perhaps.
1st Dec 2016: 75cl bottle at Granny’s house in Hazebrouck, France. Also on tap at Het Hoek Kerk. Pours clear gold, large white head. Aroma is light herbs, with a sugary sweetness. Taste has some floral elements, honey, yeast.. fairly light in flavour and generally quite light for the strength. Pleasant enough for an afternoon beer, but fails to stand up against others classic BdGs.
1st Dec 2016: 75cl bottle at Granny’s house in Hazebrouck, France. Also on tap at Het Hoek Kerk. Pours clear gold, large white head. Aroma is light herbs, with a sugary sweetness. Taste has some floral elements, honey, yeast.. fairly light in flavour and generally quite light for the strength. Pleasant enough for an afternoon beer, but fails to stand up against others classic BdGs.
Tried
from Bottle
on 01 Dec 2016
at 14:36