Lily Blond
Volders Bieren in Kontich, Antwerp, Belgium 🇧🇪
Brewed at/by: BeerSelectBelgian Style - Strong Ale Regular
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Score
6.73
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Tom (2179) ticked Lily Blond from Volders Bieren 2 years ago
Sloefmans (14294) reviewed Lily Blond from Volders Bieren 3 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6.5 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7
Medium white-yellowish head over fully hazy greyish yellow beer, well carbonated, leaving rings of lace. End of bottle solid yeast. Spicy, herbal nose, pale malts, vegetables (carrots?), yeast, mineral. Bit burning MF, again vegetable and herbal touches (and yes, carrots). Bit peppery, malty, but not sweet, tad toasted. Warming up, bubble gum, citrus and some faint acidity. Good carbonation, slick, medium bodied at least. Not bad!
Bart23 (997) ticked Lily Blond from Volders Bieren 3 years ago
Rubin77 (9045) reviewed Lily Blond from Volders Bieren 5 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
F: big, egg-white, long lasting. C: blonde, hazy with yeasty veils. A: malty, apples, orange peels, spicy, grassy, banana, herbal. T: malty, herbal, bit banana, grassy, spicy, bit juniper alcohol, yeasty, medium body and carbonation medium to high, not bad, enjoyed, 33cl bottle from ZBF 2018.
Alengrin (10989) reviewed Lily Blond from Volders Bieren 6 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5
After Joske, the second beer developed by pipe smoking hobby brewer Patrick Volders, executed at Varenbroek. Bottle from Kevin's Beer Shop in Kontich. Very tightly 'membranous'-lacing, eggshell-white, dense and creamy, medium thick, very stable and persistently closed head over a pure straw-tinged golden blonde beer with lively fizz and small translucent flakes of yeast throughout. Aroma of freshly cut Granny Smith apple, banana-flavored bubblegum, sourdough, white bread, decorative sugar, withering leeks, spoiled cucumber soup, meringue, lots of soapy coriander (even with a 'hand soap' effect), steamed parsnip, potato mash, withering nettles, gin, hints of dried camomile, unripe pear, chalk, fresh manure somewhere faraway in the background. Crisp, sweetish onset with souring edges highly accentuated by a sharp, stinging carbonation effect; truckloads of the old banana ester (isoamylacetate) mingled with a dash of green apple acetaldehyde and light pineapple and unripe peach impressions; strong minerally, even chalky notes at the sides of all this. 'White' bready malt body, rounded and softish but made needlessly harsh by overcarbonation; sharper grainy notes, quite harsh green apple accents somehow lingering about, soon overshadowed by a soapy coriander seed effect, although remaining relatively at bay in this case. Drier finish with ongoing white bread dough maltiness, dry coriander spiciness, some spicy phenols, sweet banana ester and minerally carbonation effects, but turning more bitter by a floral, grassy hoppiness, a tad resinous at the root of the tongue but in a very soft way, incapable of making any relevant statement against the initial sweetishness. As expected and as usual within this style, this whole story is rounded off by a glow of warming, somewhat wry and in that sense insufficiently hidden, young 'jenever'-like alcohol. Your average sweeter-side, coriandered, 'jeneverish', spicy Belgian tripel, very clearly the most overexposed beer style in this country - in this case adorned with dry-hopping, which only adds spoiled vegetable soup-like aromas instead of doing what it is normally capable of. I can drink this, but if (at least the original) Joske was a perfectly fine and technically completely correct tripel, this one has some flaws here and there so I guess I should recommend Joske over Lily, for what it's worth. Strange that this guy seems to have no further inspiration apart from tripels, too - aren't there any other interesting styles to try from his perspective, even if you limit yourself to a strictly Belgian context?
Kraddel (15451) reviewed Lily Blond from Volders Bieren 6 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
Sampled at Zythos 2017. Thnx for sharing, Ruben and Tim ! Pours unclear blonde, small white head. Smell is weak, mild bitter notes. Taste is bit sweet. very yeasty. Mild bitter, some fruityness. OK
tderoeck (20818) reviewed Lily Blond from Volders Bieren 6 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Imported from my RateBeer account as Varenbroek Lily Blond (by Brouwerij Varenbroek):
Aroma: 7/10, Appearance: 3/5, Taste: 6/10, Palate: 3/5, Overall: 13/20, MyTotalScore: 3.2/5
23/IV/17 - sample @ Zythos Bier Festival 2017 (Leuven) - BB: n/a (2017-534) Thanks to kraddel for sharing today's beers!
Clear blond beer, creamy white head, little stable, bit adhesive. Aroma: fruity, yeast, banana, alcohol, some marzipan. MF: soft carbon, medium body. Taste: bitter start, hoppy, some marzipan, yeast. Aftertaste: sweet, bit hoppy, yeast. Meh. At least better than the previous one.