beerhunter111 (50581) reviewed Ostdonk Blond from Ostdonk Bieren 3 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
33cl bottle. A clear yellow golden beer with a white head. Aroma of pale malt, some grains, yeast, herbs. Taste of herbal pale malt, grains, some yeast. Moderate bitterness.
Koelschtrinker (42542) reviewed Ostdonk Blond from Ostdonk Bieren 3 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5.5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5
Dumpf süßer, leicht kräutriger Beginn. Geringe Herbe, zunehmend süßlich, weich. Gut trinkbar. 10/8/9/8/6/9
mike_77 (15875) reviewed Ostdonk Blond from Ostdonk Bieren 3 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Zythos 2022. Clear pale blond colour. Well balanced. Slightly malty. Yeasty element that is slightly peppery. Pleasant.
nathanvc (6963) reviewed Ostdonk Blond from Ostdonk Bieren 4 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Thanks to Elke for gifting the bottle & to Anke for sharing your Christmas present! Hazy orange, thin, foamy, off-white head. Aroma of apple slices, pear, biscuit, honey, apricot jam, breadcrust, kitchen herbs, vague coriander. Taste has sweet apple & pear, some banana, all in all quite estery in a bready & honey-like malty profile with softly spicy bitter edges. Floral & peppery hoppy finish, lingering ripe yellow fruit, biscuit & honey, low alcohol glow adding to a spicy effect again. Medium body, oily texture, average carbonation. Decent yet somewhat 'ordinary' blonde, the Tripel was more enjoyable.
jefverstraete (7489) reviewed Ostdonk Tripel from Ostdonk Bieren 5 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6.5
Light hazy blond colour, white foam. Rather fruity tripel, medium sweet, some notes of banana, peach and some spices.
nathanvc (6963) reviewed Ostdonk Tripel from Ostdonk Bieren 5 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Thanks to Elke for gifting the bottle & to Anke for sharing your Christmas present! Hazy yellow, huge, frothy, white head. Aroma of canned pineapple, ripe peach, mandarin peel, banana, white bread, honey, kitchen spices, jenever. Taste has sweet pineapple, banana & apricot, thick estery profile, supported by a bready-honey malty base, mild 'rice' aspect; soapy wheat along with a lemony freshness in the middle, tad spicy too. Floral & peppery hoppy finish, wheat again but mostly ripe yellow fruit & warming jenever alcohol. Medium body, oily texture, fizzy carbonation. Decent Tripel, balanced as is often not the case with this genre, pairs well with some food.
Bierridder (4318) reviewed Ostdonk Blond from Ostdonk Bieren 6 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 6
11/04/2019 @home - 33cl bottle from a trade with tderoeck. Clear dark yellow, nice white head; Nose is malts, ripe fruits, bit spice. Taste is sweet malts, ripe fruits, bit caramel; Too sweet.
tderoeck (22711) reviewed Ostdonk Blond from Ostdonk Bieren 7 years ago
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Imported from my RateBeer account as Ostdonk Blond (by Ostdonk Bieren):
Aroma: 6/10, Appearance: 2/5, Taste: 6/10, Palate: 3/5, Overall: 12/20, MyTotalScore: 2.9/5
13/I/19 - 33cl bottle, shared with the boys @ Akke's place, BB: 6/XI/21 - (2019-74) Thanks to Akke for sharing the bottle!
Clear to slightly cloudy orange beer, small irregular off-white head, unstable, dissipates quickly. Aroma: sweetish, lots of banana, overripe banana, malty. MF: ok carbon, medium body. Taste: pretty sweet start, malty, caramel, hay, soft bitterness. Aftertaste: caramel and banana, malty, some grains, sugary finish.
Alengrin (11609) reviewed Ostdonk Blond from Ostdonk Bieren 7 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 6
The second commercial Ostdonk ('Haasdonk') beer, since end of last year; replaces their Pils, which in its original form has not been commercialized so far. Steinie bottle from Dranken De Moor, in the same style as the tripel but with ochre-yellow label instead of blue. Rather large-bubbled and bit irregular, pale greyish white, mousy head, quickly settling as a steady ring and some flat 'islands' in the middle, initially as good as clear, deep 'metallic orange' blonde robe with amberish hue, misty and almost 'real' amber with sediment. Aroma of strong banana ester, candyfloss, sweetbread, freshly cut sweet red apple, bubblegum, coriander seed, canned peaches, rainwater, diluted caramel sauce, subtler hints of ripe pear, something vaguely iron-like and braised carrots. Sweet onset, a strong amount of isoamylacetate (banana ester) combining with residual white sugariness into a notable bubblegummy effect, candy apple, peach and ripe pineapple accents, with a vague sourishness underneath enhanced by lively, minerally but not harshly numbing carbonation; slick, lean, somewhat glueish or resinous mouthfeel, actually feeling a tad thinner than the 6.6% ABV given on the label, straightforwardly cereally and caramelly malt sweetness with a clear metallic edge and sticky honeyish sugariness to it, clinging to the teeth but again in a thinnish kind of way. Archetypical coriander seed spiciness colours the finish, working well with a slightly floral, mildly peppery hop bitterness, but the coriander effect proves a bit stronger and lingers in a soapy-spicy, somewhat astringent way on the root of the tongue, though the caramelly malt effect, banana ester and unfermented sugars survive this softly spicy intermezzo and dominate the end phase. The metallic effect never ceases to 'zing' around all this and the residual sugars rather annoyingly stick to the teeth. Ostdonk beers, like so many classically conceived Belgian ales, remain a very local affair, but I heard that the average beer drinker at which they are aimed, is generally less enthusiastic about this one than about the tripel; I tend to concur, this is an 'okay' sweet Belgian blonde, but the tripel - in my memory and my ratings at least - was better in its respective style than this one is. Then again: didn't these guys tell me they were working on a quadrupel? If this idea is still on the table, then take your time to perfect it, fellow 'Groot-Beverenaars': if you pull that one off, this one will be soon overshadowed.
Alengrin (11609) reviewed Ostdonk Tripel from Ostdonk Bieren 8 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6.5
Hobby brew since less than two years or so, recently commercialized locally in its own village, Haasdonk near Beveren in Eastern Flanders. A wheat tripel with additional rice flakes but strangely, barley malt is not even mentioned on the label... Bottle from Dranken De Moor, in Haasdonk itself. Cobweb-lacing, eggshell-white, frothy, thick and very stable, indeed clearly wheat-enhanced head over a misty orangey peach blonde beer. Aroma of overripe peach, pineapple slices, dandelion leaves, white pepper, butterscotch, mandarin juice, orange peel, powder sugar, honey, banana mush, white bread dough. Sweet fruity onset, banana, ripe grapes, pineapple, brightened by an orange juice-like aspect, medium carbonation, supple and full, tad oily mouthfeel. Caramelly and bready middle, soapy wheat effect but not overly so, sweetish rice flakes superficially noticeable, orange peel notes, softly hoppy finish, bit earthy, peppery, floral, with honeyish residual sugar sweetness lingering alongside this orange juice-like aspect; ends with the expected, but non-astringent afterglow of warming, gin-like alcohol. Your classic Belgian sweet tripel, clearly, nothing innovative or exciting and none expected, but admittedly technically well made and tasteful, especially for what is basically a hobby brew very limitedly gone commercial.