Christoffel Bier / Blond

Brewed by Sint Christoffel Bier
Style: Pilsener
Roermond, Netherlands

Sweet bready malt nose covered by floral and herbal hops - the kind of Pils aroma favored by this hophead. Clear golden body topped by a huge creamy head, well retained and solid in its lacing. The flavor is honey coated fresh bread with great big gobs of hops, floral, herbal, and grassy. Nice lingering bitter finish. This should be sold in sixers in the area.

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Slightly hazy, straw coloured body with a medium size white head that lasted the full distance. At first I didn’t like this but then it quickly grew on me. Pleasant hops on the nose, hops in the taste as well, oily, a touch of lemon and some residual yeast. This beer will turn some people on and maybe turn some off, and as I said it did grow on me.

Swing-top bottle: Slightly hazy, golden coloured, stable, fluffy white head; distictive big floral hoppiness in the nose, grains and dust, too; distinctive dry, bitter flavour, medium bodied; long lasting, dry, aromatic hoppy finish. Very hoppy=very good !

Delicous stuff. Found the head varied from bottle to bottle. Some very tall and creamy, others short and thin. Regardless, a beautiful beer. Very complex for a pil. Watermelon and honey. Nice combo of bittersweet. Highly recommend.

I have waited so long to try this beer, but when the moment finally came, it was an older sample--the label notched 2/05 (sampled in 12/05). Nevertheless, the beer was wonderful. Lots of honey notes in the malt. The hops were spicy and grassy by turns, becoming surprisingly bitter at the very end and after I swallowed. There was no mistaking this beer’s European origins. Reminded me a little of Mahr’s Ungespundert, of all things. Great stuff.

Golden-straw body with abundant fine yeast suspension and a snowy white head. Nutty and buttery malt aroma with honey notes and some hay like hop character. Flavor is clean with prominent pils malt, an interesting lime citrus note, medium dryness, and fairly firm bitterness. Good, but seems a touch too sweet. I could see this being quite exceptional when very fresh and need to seek out such a sample.

Poured a fuzzy gold with sediment and solid white head. Great bready-yeast aroma and some malt. Great euro-hop flavour and very drinkable.

On tap at Firkin’s, Libertyville, IL. Hazy golden yellow hued pilsner having a large diminishing white rocky head with fair lacing. Light sweet malt aroma with hint of honey. Soft carbonation. Light-to-medium bodied that starts with slight sweet nutty malt flavor and finishes dry with hint of hop bitterness. A good drinkable beer.