Christoffel Bier / Blond

Brewed by Sint Christoffel Bier
Style: Pilsener
Roermond, Netherlands

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Bottled.Cloudy yellow/orange color, nice fluffy white head with a dense lace. Hops aroma with notes of roasted sugar and citrus. Flavor has a spicy hop notes, some sweetness. Finish is hopy, good one!

330 ml swing top bottle from Beers of Europe. Good flavour - good dose of hops. A hearty and very drinkable strong lager with a lovely lingering hop bitterness. Good fruit, good carbonation. All lagers should be like this. Excellent.

04-Feb-08 (330-ml swing-top bottle: Purchased 18-Nov-07 for $3.79 at Holiday Wine Cellar in Escondido, CA) The beer pours golden-amber in color and very cloudy from visible chunks of suspended particles. Not what I would expect from a "blond" lager. The off-white head, however, is tall and creamy, very gradually settling to a thin layer and wide ring with large patches of dense lace left on the glass. Smelling the beer, the hops aroma dominates and is redolent of dry hay and musty magazines stored up in the attic, but the nose also offers a bit of sweet honey-like maltiness in the background. The flavor is more traditional lager: clean, grainy malts with minimal sweetness, but this is balanced wonderfully by bright, grassy, moderately bitter hops. A slight toastiness emerges in the finish as the beer warms a bit. Dry, dusty and slightly chalky mouthfeel, clean bitterness and moderate carbonation complement the medium body of the malty base for a beer that is refreshing, easy and fun to drink.

Bottle, from BSF at the GBBF. Pale honey pour with a lot of clean white ultra-fine head. Herb garden on a cold dewy morning, tangerine, a little bile note. Ultra-soft grainy malt sweetness blended seemlessly with minty herbal hops. Hopping is brisk, but the balance still leans slightly toward malt. Lingering husk and mint. Well-crafted and interesting.

Brown bottle, 33 cl, best before 04 2009, purchased at the la LCBO, savoured on August 7 2008; eye: golden with a orange hue, hazy, light effervescence, voluminous white head that falls and turns into a blanket to protect the beer, a bit of lacing; nose: refreshing hops, grapefruit, resinous hops, light grainy malt, pine; mouth: assaulting, resinous hops, pine, grainy malt, lots of carbonation, yeast, fizzy, clove, banana, dry hops, alcohol, finale in hops with a lightly sweet malt and a bit of clove and banana, rather bitter, quite carbonated, medium-full body, slightly grainy texture; overall: quite likable FRANÇAIS Bouteille brune, 33 cl, meilleure avant 04 2009, achetée à la LCBO, savourée le 7 août 2008; œil : dorée avec une teinte orangée, voilée, légère effervescence, mousse blanche abondante qui tombe et devient une petite couverture pour protéger la bière, un peu de dentelle; nez : houblon rafraîchissant, pamplemousse, houblon résineux, léger malt granuleux, pin; bouche : agressante, houblon résineux, pin, malt granuleux, beaucoup de carbonatation, levure, pétillante, clou de girofle, léger banane, houblon sec, alcool, finale en houblon avec malt légèrement sucrée et une touche de clou de girofle et de banane, plutôt amère, pas mal carbonatée, corps moyen-corsé, texture légèrement granuleuse; en résumé : bien aimé

Bottled -> Poured a light brown colour with a bit of visible sediment. Had a very strong off white head for a good minute, but eventually settled. Had a nice smooth mouthfeel, and a nice hoppy taste, the only downfall was that I could really taste the alcohol in this one.. Still good though..

On tap @ Café Gollem. Hazy golden appearance, white head. Nose of malts, citrus and hops, flowery. Taste is soft, malty, and a good deal of bitterness. Really smooth and quaffable, excellent beer to start off the evening.