6.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
Bottle from a Deen supermarket. Medium thick, egg-white, moussy head consisting of tiny bubbles and slowly dissolving in the middle, over a hazy peach blonde beer with ochre hue. Rustic aroma of unripe gooseberry, wet paper, grapefruit peel, green banana, apple peel, freshly cut nettles, peach, strawberry, honey, dry earth, white grape peel, dust, old straw, dried flowers. Fruity onset, peach, redcurrant, pink grapefruit accent, sweetish and sourish, quite refreshing actually with a hint of dried orange peel, medium carbo adding a certain additional sourishness, smooth and lightly oily mouthfeel, pleasant honeyish and bready malt sweetishness with a caramelly edge under spicy phenols, leading to a drying finish of floral, earthy, spicy ’noble’ hop bitterness which is well matched with the persisting bready maltiness; this earthy bitterness is of medium duration and does leave a mild peppery flavour in the back of the mouth. Quite stereotypical Belgian blonde style beer tilted towards ’bitter blonde’; shows good balance of sweet, sour and bitter, too phenolic perhaps. Could have been worse.
Tried
from Bottle
on 29 Dec 2015
at 07:07