Grottenbier Flemish Ale Blond
St. Bernardus Brouwerij in Watou, West Flanders, Belgium 🇧🇪
Belgian Style - Blonde / Pale / Amber Regular Out of Production|
Score
6.75
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Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
750 ml bottle into tulip glass; 11/23/2009 dating on the bottom of the bottle(best before date?). Pours lightly hazy and cloudy golden orange color with a nice 2 finger dense off white head with great retention, that reduces to a nice cap that lingers. Spotty foamy lacing clings on the glass, with a moderate amount of streaming carbonation. Aromas of pear, apple, grape, floral, pepper, clove, herbal, caramel, honey, biscuit, and herbal earthiness. Very nice aromas with good complexity and balance of fruity/spicy/floral notes with malt sweetness; and good strength. Taste of pear, apple, grape, floral, pepper, clove, herbal, caramel, honey, biscuit, and herbal earthiness. Lingering notes of light fruits, floral, pepper, herbal, light clove, caramel, honey, bread, and herbal earthiness on the finish for a good bit. Very nice balance and complexity of malt and fruity/spicy esters; with a good malt/spiciness balance and no cloying sweetness present after the finish. Medium carbonation and body; with a slick and lightly syrupy mouthfeel that is nice. Alcohol is very well hidden with hardly any warming noticed after the finish. Overall this is a damn nice Belgian strong pale. Very nice balance and complexity of fruity/spicy flavors with malt sweetness; and very smooth to sip on. This was probably quite old given the caramelized maltiness from age, but it held up very well. A very enjoyable offering.
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
Bottle on 11/30/2008 at the 3rd Annual Richmond Industry Gathering. Slightly hazy pale golden body with a small foamy white head. Sweet big belgian spice and sugar aroma. Big sugar and belgian spice flavor. Light body with moderately high carbonation.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Bottle 75cl.Unclear medium yellow color with a average, frothy, fair lacing, mostly diminishing, white head. Aroma is light to moderate malty, spicy, moderate yeasty, coriander. Flavor is moderate to light heavy sweet and moderate bitter with a average to long duration. Body is light to medium, texture is watery, carbonation is soft. (050908)
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
75 cL bottle. Pours cloudy orange with a lacing white head. Dry yeasty and slight spiced with a mild dry wooden note. Dry wooden and yeasty with a nice mild brettish accent. Caramelish and slight yeasty with a lasting dry finish. Smooth and mellow with a dry accent.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Cloudy golden with large white head. Sweet fruity aroma with yeasty, spicy mild brett notes. Flavour is sweet yeasty with ripe fruits and brett notes.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
Pour is a bright but hazy yellow with a very large head. Aroma is nice with a decent amount of yeastyness and citrus but also a nice dose of clove. Flavor is a bit weaker than the aroma but there is a nice clove, lemon and pepper taste. Finish is light and fizzy. Reminds of a Duvel.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
A bit dissapointed. Aroma of flowery hops, light yeast and some cinnamon. Pours with a small, white head covering a murky gold body. Slightly sour-yeast finish. Pretty dry mouthfeel with some fizzy carbonation.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
100th Belgian rating. Pours a thick golden with no clarity and a small head. Aroma is strong on fruity yeastiness with citrus and apple sweetness, strong, sweet and very earthy. Taste is a bit herbal and grassy, which surrounds the creamy yeasty flavor, no fruit. A very drinkable beer with a real substantial feel on the cheeks. A nice beer but such a difference between aroma an taste which becomes way too herbal.
750mL, label has some yellow in it, St. Paul cross between snifter/tulip glass.
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 6.5
Bottle courtesy of Bu11zeye: Poured a deep orangey color ale with a nice big foamy head with good retention and some great lacing. Aroma of sweet malt is dominating with a light yeasty note. Taste is also dominated by some quiet sweet malt with light yeasty dry finish. Body is a bit oily and cloying with light alcohol being perceptible and some great carbonation. Definitely lacking complexity and a bit too sweet for my palate but then again I had high expectation from that brewer.