Bottle at Nüetnigenough. Pours amber with whiteish beige head. Aroma is fruity and boozy. Flavor is very sweet, some fruits, belgian yeast, and booze. Overall: drinkable. --- Beer merged from original tick of Zingende Blondine Bourgogne Barrel Aged on 24 Aug 2018 at 19:34 - Score: 5. Original review text: Fruity, boozy, sugary.bpohmakas on homne garanteeritud.

Another barrel experiment in this series, again many thanks to tderoeck for sharing. Aged on 'Slyrs' barrels - apparently a Bavarian (!) single malt whisky brand... Very fierce gusher, streaming out of the bottle neck - but why am I not surprised… Cobweb-lacing, thick, very coarse and egg-white, irregular and ragged 'gusher head' over a misty orange blonde beer with warm peachy-rosy hue. Aroma of canned peaches, honey liqueur, powder sugar, banana mush, sweet cherry tomatoes, vanilla-like oak, whisky, 'jenever', wet hay, cooked carrots, coriander seed, soggy sandwiches. Sweet onset with a sourish edge, banana, peach and pineapple, lots of residual honeyish sugariness over a rounded, fluffy, fizzily carbonated bready malt sweet body; very boozy finish, whisky-like and heating but astringent as well, lots of lingering sugary sweetness and bready yeastiness but a bit too restrained in woody tannins. Everybody wants to do barrel aging these days and that automatically leads to less inspired or less well executed examples - and that is the case here too: if Zingende Blondine is a suitable beer for this treatment to begin with, something I am not even convinced of, then it should have benefited from a much more thorough aging process. Somewhat clumsy and to me less successful than the wine barrel aged version, with too much wry booziness in the finish.

The wine barrel aged edition in this serious of Singing Blonde variations, thanks tderoeck for sharing. Obviously a gusher - this is, after all, Gaverhopke we're talking about… Irregularly lacing, medium thick, papery, off-white head, hazy warm orange robe with rosy-peachy hue. Aroma of sweet grapes and dessert wine, vanilla-ish oak, canned peaches, 'jenever', banana mush, white port, stewed carrots, tomato peel, tulips, glue, orange flesh. Sweet onset, very fruity, banana and sweet grapes galore, peaches, pear, sourish accent, medium carbonation; smooth, full, bit resinous mouthfeel, bready, honeyish and lightly caramelly malt sweet middle with lots of lingering esters. More wine character in the finish, sweet like white port or dessert wine, with a strong, almost brandy-like alcohol effect and lots of lingering sweetness; spicy and softly herbal hop bitterish note and some woody tannins add some complexity but the booziness dominates. Too sweet and boozy for me personally, lacks subtlety and finesse yet still better than expected in view of where it comes from.

Imported from my RateBeer account as Gaverhopke Zingende Blondine Slyrs B.A. (by 't Gaverhopke):
Aroma: 6/10, Appearance: 1/5, Taste: 6/10, Palate: 3/5, Overall: 10/20, MyTotalScore: 2.6/5

19/VII/18 - 33cl bottle from Bierhalle Deconinck (Vichte), shared with Alengrin @ Belgian Ticks Tasting (home) - BBE: 2020 (2018-861)

HUGE GUSHER ALERT!!!
Clear orange beer, huge fizzy aery foamy off-white head, little stable, falls down quickly. Aroma: very sweet and sugary impression, overripe banana, alcohol esters, pretty messy. MF: soft carbon, medium to full body. Taste: lots of alcohol, banana, lots of esters, sugary, more alcohol, bit oxidized. Aftertaste: bit yeasty, sugary, more alcohol, more banana.

Imported from my RateBeer account as Gaverhopke Zingende Blondine Bourgogne B.A. (by 't Gaverhopke):
Aroma: 7/10, Appearance: 1/5, Taste: 7/10, Palate: 2/5, Overall: 13/20, MyTotalScore: 3/5

19/VII/18 - 33cl bottle from Bierhalle Deconinck (Vichte), shared with Alengrin @ Belgian Ticks Tasting (home) - BBE: 2020 (2018-860)

GUSHER ALERT!!!
Clear orange beer, big aery irregular off-white head, little stable, falls down quickly. Aroma: very sweet, oxidized, marzipan, some alcohol, ripe banana, yeast. MF: ok carbon, medium to full body, alcohol burn in the throat, right from the start. Taste: sweet start, lots of alcohol, fruity, banana, rum esters, some dried fruits. Aftertaste: soft bitterness, some wood tannins, more alcohol, bit sugary, caramel touch. So much alcohol...

At some random bar during Gentse Feesten. Medium thick, egg-white, stable, lightly lacing head leaving thick islands over a misty, warm peach blonde beer. Aroma of banana bread, potato juice, quite outspoken DMS (hate it!), white bread dough, coriander seed, cold camomile tea, pineapple, young 'jenever', cooked turnip. Sweetish onset with sourish touch, residual white candi sugar, some banana ester, peach, pear, fizzy carbonation; full, smooth, bready middle with honeyish sweet edges. Floral finish in the hoppy sense of the word, chrysanthemum hardly noticeable, spicy coriander note, starchy yeasty accent, minimal 'Belgian tripel' hoppiness and some warming alcohol in the end. I am bored to death with this but at least it didn't gush so technically an improvement for Gaverhopke, to be honest.