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Bottle, pale golden beer, small head. Aroma is citrus, bitter, fruit. Taste is the same, bitter, citrus, light soap, fruit, not bad

Belgian style blonde brewed by Eeuwige Jeugd for the 'Appie', the affectionate name Dutch people give to the Albert Heijn supermarkets. Longneck bottle from, indeed, an 'Appie'... Thick and foamy, egg-white, tightly cobweb-lacing, firm and stable, dense head on a crystal clear, warm yellow golden blonde beer with lively visible sparkling, misty and deeper gold with sediment. Aroma of ripe banana, honey-glazed pear, white bread dough, coriander, cooked turnips, freshly cut grass, green apple (acetaldehyde), meringue, iron, sourish sweat note. Fizzy, sweetish onset, banana ester mingled with cooked pear and green apple, dash of overripe cucumber, sharpish minerally carbonation, slick body; pale malt sweetish core, cereally and a bit white-bready with sharper grainy edges, accompanied by a 'whiny' sourish undertone, leading to a grassy hop bitterish finish with some soapy coriander thrown in for good measure. Floral hop aromas (sweetclover, chamomile) rise up retronasally and this gentle bitterness lasts long enough to remain moderately entertaining, though that sourish aspect as well as those sweet malty flavours pass through easily and unabatedly. Something metallic is present as well. Thinnish and boring, but admittedly well-balanced blonde - though not really one worth seeking out, considering the many other interesting beers gracing the 'Appie's' shelves these days.

Bottle, 7.7%. Bready, chalky, malty aroma with notes of dried fruit. Hazy golden colour. Good stable plasticky white head. The flavour is fruity and yeasty with a distinct honey note. Also a late orange peel note. Medium bitterness. Good mouthfeel.

Medium, stable, slightly irregular whitish head over cold hazed copperish orange beer. Pale malts with a short smokey overlay. Carpet, some aromatic hops that struggle to get through, rosewater, speculoos. Faint sweetish hints to neutral, then short bitterish notes which again fail to break through. Some rosewater, amandine. Neutral main taste. Light body, bit slick, creamy through the head. A beer that doesn't dare to go anywhere, sticking to attempts in any direction. Ironic with that name. Water might be called balanced too, I guess.

33cl Fles van de Appie. Goudblonde kleur, witte kraag. Licht fruitig, wat kookvocht, licht hoppig, smaak is vlak en waterig, nietszeggend. Lichte body. Forgettable.

6-3-6-4-12 On tap @ Foodhallen, Amsterdam. Pours hazy golden, with a creamy head. Aroma is spicy yeasty notes with sweet malty notes of bread, hay and honey. Full body, with average carbonation. Flavour is spicy yeast and malty notes of bread crust, hay and heather.

Pours a cloudy yellow colour and a frothy white head that leaves good lacing. Aroma's of grassy and flowery hops, tea, resinous. Retronasal there's firm resin, bitterish, fruity, light sweet. Flavour is light moderate bitter with a touch of malty sweetness. Medium bodied. Finishes fairly dry and moderate bitter.