Affligem Patersvat Blond

Brewed by Brouwerij Affligem / De Smedt (Heineken)
Style: Belgian Ale
Opwijk, Belgium

A hazy orange beer with a huge orange head. The aroma is sweet spicy with notes of coriander. The flavor is very sweet with notes of peaches and coriander on a dry background.

(Bottle 33 cl) Pours a clear amber with a tall, frothy and handsome, off-white head. Aroma of yeast and fruit. Medium body with sweetish malty accents. Some yeast and diacetyl to be detected and some alcohol in the finish. 130906

33 cL bottle. Pours golden yellow with a white head. Aroma is spiced and herbal coriander. Flavour is orange peel and coriander. Quite mellow and softly blend. Soft malt flavour, slight sweet. The beer goes into a slight dry and decent bitter finish.

Bottled. Golden coloured and slightly hazy with dense, creamy haed. Aroma of fruit and honey. Sweet and malty with nice warming malt character. The finish is sweetish with rather low bitterness. Pleasant, but not overly interesting.

Bottle. Alc. 6.5%. Light light unclear medium orange color with a average to large, frothy, good lacing, fully lasting, off-white head. Aroma is moderate hoppy, lime, orange, light yeast, yeast, light malty, sweet. Flavor is moderate sweet and bitter with a average to long duration. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft. (091007)

Bottled@Kerstbierfestival, Essen. Yellow colour, not much head. Aroma is grass, fruits, some maltyness along with some flowery hops. Flavour is acidic fruits, some bitter hoppyness as well as mild spicyness.

Bottle. Hazy golden coloured with a white ehad. Aroma of fruits, berries, yeast and bubble gum. Fruity flavour of berries, yeast, bubble gum and hops. Hoppy finish.

1995, 9 years old, bottle at Kulminator - Antwerpen
Bright dark copper color; creamy head. Malty aroma, sweet, mature, quite fruity (red grapes). Very smooth, balanced, but slips a bit thin in the end. Anyway, a nice bitterness.