3.1

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 2 | Texture - 2 | Overall - 2.5

Blondelle 'saison' Smell- weak yeast, weak acidic tones weak farts. Foam-thin, malt, sourness, weak bitter tones. Head is huge, white in color. Appearance - generic white cap, interesting label.Clear orange amber, medium carbonation. From - pint Taste - weak malt, weak acidic tones, weak hops, weak sourness. Odd.. meh... Sink it is...

3.1

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 2 | Texture - 2 | Overall - 2.5

Smell- weak sourness, herbal tones. Foam- thin, weak sourness, weak bitter tones, mote sourness. Head is small and white. Appearance- cool label, generic label. Bit cloudy yellow amber in color, weak carbonation. From - pint Taste - weak sourness, weak yeast, faint biiter tones. Slight apple. I don't like sour ones, why I buy them... Sink it is...

6.8

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7

Smell-weak hops, herbal tones, Belgian yeast, faint sweetness, interesting. Foam- thin, hops. malt, herbal, weak Belgian yeast, citrus. Head is medium-sized, white in color, and sticks. Appearance- interesting label, generic bottle cap.Cloudy orange amber, weak to medium carbonation. From - snifter Taste - weak herbal tones, caramel, hops, weak malt, Belgian yeast, Nicem fine Belgian.

5.6

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5

Smell- weak roast, coffee, malt, coffee remains. Foam- thin, roast, weak acidic tones, coffee, malt and more coffee. Head is large, medium dark brown in color. Appearance- generic bottle cap, somewhat interesting label. Black in color, medium carbonation. From - stout glass Taste - malt, coffee, roast, weak caramel, faint sweetness, more coffee and roast later, bitterness and then some booze. Roasty coffee stout with boozy afternoons. Nothing special.

5.4

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 5.5

Stressful day... Smell- weak malt, caramel, belgian tones, faint herbal tones, faint grass maybe. Foam- thin, malt, weak Belgian, weak caramel, weak roast, faint hops. Head is medium-sized, and white in color. Appearance- nice label with some elf wizard petting a giant crow, yet generic bottle cap. Weak carbonation, yellow-range ish in color, Cloudy, even hazy. From - snifter Taste - citrus, orange, weak fruits, weak medicinal tones, faint booze, weak hops some Belgian yeast in the mix. Would be nice-ish, but something went off sadly making it weird.

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7.3

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7.5 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7

Small off-white head over slightly reddish orange beer. Whisky, Brettanomyces, bit soapy, orangepeel. Sweet, lots of whisky (not completely clearly Islay), orangepeel even more pronounced than in the nose. Bit of tarr, less Bretts. Alcoholheat and -burning; full bodied, oily. Not that carbonated. Ho-hum... Laphroaig? If this is really barrel aged (the label does NOT claim this) it ought to have acquired more depth, all the more if the impression of Brettanomyces fermentation is real. I fail to comprehend what really happened here. Txs to Stef!

7

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7.5 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

Very shortlived snowwhite head over clear pale golden beer. Sourish, sour apples, bit estrery, wild yeasts, solvent, cider. Medium dry cider, sourish, malonic acid, lactic, barn apples. Bit leafy. Light, certain (applejuice) slickness, almost no carbonation. More cider than beer, certainly not bad. Somebody ought to explain to me how the ABV can be missing on the label - that's unlawful, BTW. Txs to Stef!

6.8

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6.5 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7

Belgian style blonde named after a folk figure - like a few other recent Hofbrouwerijke beers - recommended in food pairing with very diverse food items (pasta, burgers, asparagus and salads)... No gushing this time, contrary to other Hofbrouwerijke beers I recently had - so I deemed this worth mentioning. Medium thick, audibly fizzing, membrane-lacing, egg-white, densely moussy and minute-bubbled, slowly and partially opening head on an initially near-clear, old-golden-hued pale orange blonde beer with lively sparkling and some dead yeast dots floating around everywhere, shifting to a misty peach-orange with sediment. Aroma of wet toast, nearly burnt white sugar and hard caramel, old dry biscuit, rusty iron, dried thyme, unripe apricot, damp earth, cooked turnip, dandelion, withering grass, raw kale, background hints of old dried out orange peel, halfripe banana, clove, beef broth and 'rusty' oxidation already dastardly setting in from below. Fruity onset, sweetish with apple peel, unripe peach and slight banana notes, sourish undertone accentuated by lively and minerally carbonation; light metallic 'zing' round a slick, grainy and faintly peanutty maltiness with some biscuity accents - but not enough to 'fill the flavour' in a way that could make this beer a lot better. Toasty bitterish accent in the finish along with phenolic spiciness (clove, thyme but also something rubbery), a first note of onsetting oxidation (rusty iron) and earthy, bit rooty hops offering a not very tasty, dandelion-ish bitterness of medium duration. Toasty- and nutty-malty accents seek connection with 'spéciale belge' here, which in itself is not a bad thing of course, but there are some phenolic and autolysis-induced off-flavours which should not have been there and traces of unfermented sugar stick to the teeth a bit. Rather clunky, unsophisticated, 'rough' Belgian blonde (or amber), but I guess one should not expect much better than this from Hofbrouwerijke, if I overlook all my previous experiences with this brewery... At least it did not gush and could be poured clearly (if properly done), these are basic technical aspects of bottle-conditioned Belgian ales Hofbrouwerijke does not even achieve in many of its other beers. Maybe I should not have waited for half a year with this one if I wanted to avoid the oxidation aspect which is clearly already present - or maybe it benefited from the cellaring and was even less sophisticated when young? I will never know, as I do not intend to get a new bottle for a 'fresh' rating, there are gazillions of more interesting beers to spend my money on...

6.4

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

Bottled. Amber colour with a small slightly off-white head. Aroma is fruity, floral, some spices and mild herbal tones. Flavour is peachy, some yeast, mild bananas with mild herbal and lemongrassy tones.