Christoffel Bier / Blond

Brewed by Sint Christoffel Bier
Style: Pilsener
Roermond, Netherlands

Nice bottle! Good golden color with a frothy head, and nose of wheat and grass. Taste is full of grain and hops, with a long finish. Too much grain here for me.

(draft @ The Old Toad - Rochester, NY) Cloudy orange color with a thick and puffy tan head. The aroma smells like burnt plastic that’s been cooled off and put in coffee can. Way too dry and bitter. Flavor is exactly the same. Way too dry and extremely bitter. Flavor clings and doesn’t go away. Absolutely disgusting.

12oz (or thereabouts) bottle purchased from LCBO in Toronto. Pours a slightly cloudy blonde with little lacing. Aroma is decent. The initial flavour is a solid lager with the good hops and with a very nice aftertaste that fills the mouth. This one was pretty nice.

330ml Bottle. Love this beer. Pours very golden with a great frothy head and high carbination. Aroma is a nice blanace of citrus and malts with grassy notes. Flavour is initially very hoppy and bitter with a slightly sweet finish. The weight of this beer in the mouth is much fuller than one would expect from the style of beer. Brilliant. The only down side is that the batches can be slightly inconsistent, with the odd bottle tasting over hopped.

Pours a hazy brown-orange with a small white head that doesn’t really lace. The aroma is celery, brown sugar, and a lot of peach. The mouthfeel is slightly creamy, with low-medium carbonation. The taste is quite hoppy with a big bitter bite, some astringent aspirin, burnt cookies, and grapefruit. The slightly higher alcohol content lends some warming to it, but it is not otherwise discernible. All in all, a pretty good beer. I’d purchase this again happily.

The best pilsner Ive tasted so far. Pours a golden yellow with a thick froathy head that has good retention. Floral aroma with big notes of oats and malts. Well balanced flavours of hops and malts, with some grains upfront, honey sweetness in the middle and hoppy piney bitterness in the finish. Medium Bodied, Dry finish, a rather strange pilsner but top notch all around.

swingtop bottle. poured hazy golden with a good sized white head that leaves nice lacings. yeasty aromas with hops also in the nose. flavours are really hoppy with a very bitter finish. very nice beer all around. i could drink boatloads.

Date: 03/05/1998
Mode: Draft
Source: Taco Mac, Sandy Springs

hazy yellow, thin head, bright hop aroma, light body, crisp hop flavor, citrus tartness, lots of lingering bitterness, deceptivaly light for the hop punch, tonge shaver
-------- /> Date: 06/01/2005

spicy sweet malt aroma, good bitter spicy hop flavor, good lingering bitter finish,

Aroma: 5/10; Appearance: 5/10; Flavor: 7/10; Palate: 5/10; Overall: 16/20
Rating: 3.4/5.0
Score: **4
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