B44 Blonde Ale
Brouwbar in Gent, East Flanders, Belgium 🇧🇪
Belgian Style - Blonde / Pale / Amber Regular|
Score
6.81
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Tom (2179) ticked B44 Blonde Ale from Brouwbar 3 years ago
nathanvc (5932) reviewed B44 Blonde Ale from Brouwbar 3 years ago
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
Takeaway bottle. Pours hazy yellow with a quickly dissipating, white head. Aroma of fresh melon, yellow apple, banana, lemongrass, white pepper, breadcrust, kitchen herbs, lychee. Taste has sweet melon, banana, apricot, quite estery indeed but spicy pepper tingling in the back as well as a sourish lemony effect; bit yeast, soft bready & a sweeter honey-like malty base. Dryish, peppery hoppy finish, softly spicy still, but fresh yet sweet yellow fruit remains apparent as well as a subtle fruity jenever alcohol glow. Medium body, slick texture, fizzy carbonation. Straightforward & utterly Belgian 'Blonde' but well-made (as expected of course) and tastier than any industrial blonde ale. 11 June 2020. Banana & apricot, estery profile, a bit medicinal in the end.
tderoeck (20788) reviewed B44 Blonde Ale from Brouwbar 3 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
4/VI/20 - 33cl bottle from the brewery, shared @ home, BB: 7/VII/20 (2020-464)
Little cloudy (cause of the yeast, my bad) blond to gold beer, small dense creamy off-white head, stable, bit adhesive, leaving some lacing in the glass. Aroma: pretty yeasty, ripe banana, some banana peel, bit oxidized, some almonds,. MF: ok carbon, medium body. Taste: soft acidity, sweet malts, some orange peel, ripe banana, yeasty, marzipan. Aftertaste: fruity, some peaches, apricots, soft acidity, little sweet, banana, pears, gentle bitterness, some bready malts.
Paired with a veggie pizza, paired very well!
Alengrin (10989) reviewed B44 Blonde Ale from Brouwbar 3 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
One of several Brouwbar beers released by the brewpub during the corona pandemic, when the pub was necessarily closed but sold packages of their beers (bottled) to consumers every week; thanks to Steve for fetching this bottle for me! Medium thick, snow white, regularly shaped, uneven-bubbled head quickly showing gaps, initially clear pure yellow-golden robe with pale orangey hue, shifting to a more apricot-tinged 'mistiness' with the sediment added. Aroma of banana bread, sweet red apple peel, honey, white bread dough, melting granulated sugar, Honeydew melon, pear compote, biscuit crust, Conference pear, freshly cut grass. Sweet banana and pineapple esters dominate the onset, while a more refreshing green apple sourishness keeps the sweetness from becoming too heavy; medium carbonated, smooth and very supple body, a slender pale malt sweetishness with cereally core but also a layer of ongoing, eventually honeyish sweetness on top, towards a light-bodied finish where a grassy and floral hop aspect adds only very mild bitterness - so that the banana and honey effects are allowed to linger on, yet never in an annoying manner, remaining slender and streamlined. A light bready yeast note appears in the end, but only after addition of the yeast sediment. Friendly, sleek and rounded, exhibiting Brouwbar's streamlined and accessible house style, clearly kept sweet and accessible for the tourists and other casual drinkers frequenting the place - but at the same time, not showing the slightest technical flaw and managing to remain pleasant and easygoing without becoming boring; in that respect, this is a top level Belgian sweet and easy outdoors café blonde for sure, even if this type of beers are a bit lost on me.