5.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
500ml bottle from Waitrose, Morningside. Pours clear golden amber, thin white head. Aromas of marmalade, earthy hops. Taste has a chalky bite, sweet caramel, light orange. Thin body, thin finish. Dull.
Tried
from Bottle
on 26 Apr 2015
at 11:25
6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 5
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Bottle thanks to allmyvinyl. Appearance - murky brown with a decent head. Nose - tangy pineapple, lemon sherbet. Taste - much more enjoyable than the nose, a touch of toffee and then banana and pineapple. Palate - medium bodied with a creamy texture and a fairly balanced finish, though a bit short. Overall - not enough going on for this style.
Tried
from Bottle
on 07 Apr 2015
at 09:14
5.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
500ml bottle from Waitrose, Morningside. Pours murky brown, thin white head. Sweet banoffi aromas, foam bananas again. Taste is sweet, clove hints. Light body, thin sweet finish.
Tried
from Bottle
on 07 Apr 2015
at 09:09
6.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
330ml bottle from Waitrose, Morningside. Pours clear gold, thick white head. Aromas of orange, yeast, toast, dried herbs, light yoghurt going on. Taste is very herbal, dry. Decent enough.
Tried
from Bottle
on 07 Apr 2015
at 08:44
7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Bottle thanks to allmyvinyl. Appearance - golden with a nice fluffy head. Nose - oranges and dry herbs. Light yoghurt. Taste - more tangy orange, dried herbs and light spice. Palate - medium bodied at least with a creamy yet tangy texture and a long tangy dry finish. Overall - substantial structure considering it’s only 6.3%.
Tried
from Bottle
on 07 Apr 2015
at 08:43
7.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Live rate on 23rd Feb 2015: not a big fan of Du Bocq brews usually, but always fair in my scoring. 33cl dumpy bottle: BBD 22rd Apr 2016, poured into a Duvel glass and shared with no one. Huge (Duvel like) white head on top of a slightly hazed golden body, carbonation bubbles rising through the beer. The nose is on the spicy side with a mild orange trace and a yeasty feel. The taste is similar with a good bitter bite to the whole thing: a lot better than I was expecting to be honest. Credit where credit is due, this is a fine Belgian Blonde and would hold it’s own against many of the ’upper echelon’ brews within that sub-style. I would have no problem offering this to guests during a Belgian tasting evening.
Tried
from Bottle
on 23 Feb 2015
at 13:27
5.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 3
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
Green 500ml bottle: BBD 31 Jul 15. Part of a blind ’supermarket Pilsner’ tasting at home on 18 Jan 15. Just me playing, the wife pouring! This won out of the three beers on the day. Looked good, golden, clear, clean and bright: usual fading white crown on top. Slight hop odour but no real aroma to talk of. Pleasant, uncomplicated bend of light malts and floral hops. Decent without really setting the world alight. A bog standard German Pilsner in all aspects, which means it’s fine.
Tried
from Bottle
on 19 Jan 2015
at 15:03
5.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 3.5
13th January 2015
Hazy deep gold beer, small pale cream colour head. Palate is light and dry with mild fine carbonation. Light dry malts, little unsweet caramel. Bitter floralness. Mild bubblegum ester underneath. Mild dry citrus before a dry finish. Not a very good bitter and a terrible IPA!
Hazy deep gold beer, small pale cream colour head. Palate is light and dry with mild fine carbonation. Light dry malts, little unsweet caramel. Bitter floralness. Mild bubblegum ester underneath. Mild dry citrus before a dry finish. Not a very good bitter and a terrible IPA!
Tried
on 16 Jan 2015
at 11:05
4.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 5
Flavor 4
Texture 6
Overall 3
11th January 2015
Hazy deep gold beer, small pale cream colour head. Palate is dry and mildly crispy. Creamy dry pale malts. Little dry floralness. A bare whisper of tired citrus. Mild bitterness in a dry grainy finish. Pretty lame effort! Dry and insipid and not very palatable.
Hazy deep gold beer, small pale cream colour head. Palate is dry and mildly crispy. Creamy dry pale malts. Little dry floralness. A bare whisper of tired citrus. Mild bitterness in a dry grainy finish. Pretty lame effort! Dry and insipid and not very palatable.
Tried
on 16 Jan 2015
at 08:23
6.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Part of my 2013 backlog. Colour is gold amber with a tick white head. Aroma has spice, citrus. The taste is orange marmalade with a decent bitter finish.
Tried
on 01 Jan 2015
at 09:05