caesar (10841) reviewed Blond from Speciaalbierbrouwerij St. Christoffel 23 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Rerate: i have to say, this beer is more than a regular pilsener. At first, I was not very convinced by this beer, but lately i drank this beer in a bar in Amsterdam and it could quite satisfy me. It has a very pleasant bitterness in it, also seen in the Pilsner Urquell. --- Beer aliased from original tick of Christoffel Bier on 23 Aug 2012 at 16:03 - Score: 8
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 4
Nice bottle. According to Michael Jackson this is one of the world's great beers, but I found it very dry and bitter with some sweetness making it feel unbalanced.
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
One of the highlights of the Upper Canadian beer calendar is the annual release of the Christmas gift packs every November. I make it a point to buy as many as I can, as there is no better way to build the glass collection and try some good oldies. I spent fifteen minutes trying to figure out why the Corona gift pack had glasses in it (how do you shove a lime wedge into a broad-rimmed glass? And what self-respecting Corona drinker would even use a glass? After all, using a glass is the beer drinking equivalent of flushing the toilet, and we all know Corona drinkers don't do that every day...where was I? Oh yeah, my first gift pack this year was the Christoffel one, since you need to have the Blond fresh. But that also means I get to have a nice, fresh Robertus too! Luminous reddish-brown, cloudy Vienna lager; malty, a little alcohol showing as well in the nose and some toasted marshmallow. Smooth, malty palate with lots of Vienna malt and toffeeish notes. As far as Vienna lagers go, this is the antithesis of Eliot Ness, but they're both among the top of the style.
Oakes (33770) reviewed Blond from Speciaalbierbrouwerij St. Christoffel 24 years ago
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 10 | Flavor - 10 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 10
Christoffel Blond is a hopheads delight. It's just dripping with herbal, piney hop goodness and just enough bready malt flavours to carry the hops through to the lingering bitter finish. From the cloudy, shimmering appearance to the elegant middle to the assertively bitter finale, this is an exercise in style. It's a shame that it is appreciated by so few.
Oakes (33770) reviewed Taboe from Speciaalbierbrouwerij St. Christoffel 25 years ago
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 3 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 3.5
Dryish amber liquid with little to no tobacco flavour or aroma. Not worthy of Christoffel at all.