De Arend Nellos Blond

bottle. Nice golden colour with stable white head. Smell: fruity. Taste: yeasty, fruity, a bit sweet and hoppy. No ’special’ beer but not a bad one.

(Bottled) Almost clear amber with small, floating yeast bits, and a smallish, firm and lasting head. Very pleasantly fruity aroma with honeyish maltiness and grassy hop hints. Flavor is not as fruity, but there’s plenty of pale malt, some hay, and maybe a touch of cardboard. Hides the alcohol well. Medium body with soft-n-foamy carbonation. A positive surprise, although the flavor didn’t quite meet the expectations set by the lovely fruity aroma.

Bottle. Golden- orange colour with a white head. Aroma is sweet, hop, malt, spices. Flavour is sweet, hop, malt, spices, alcohol. Medium body. OK beer.

(33cl bottle; the back label states: brewed by brewery De Arend) Hazy, golden colour with a big and blond foamy head. Sweet and distinctively bready cara-malty aroma with notes of pear, citrus and a light spicy touch. Sweet and slightly bitter flavour, medium bodied with a well-matured and moderately carbonated mouthfeel. A bit yeasty and rich cara-malty taste, again with that bready touch and rather subtle fruity notes, combined with spices; moderately sweet malt-accented and slightly bitter finish. Good one (23.V.09).

33cl, exclusive brewfirm, from Willems Grobbendonk, complex brew, not balanced, cloudy, rocky head, nice brew

Bottle. It’s an almost clear, golden beer with a big, white head. Tea, sugar, some fruits and a herbal touch in the aroma. The flavor is on the sweet side, almost sugary, with some alcohol, pale malts, a little spiced note, some hints of tea, and a herbal bitterness. Medium body, slightly warming. Bitter finish with sugars and some warmth. A quite decent one, nothing more. A bit boring maybe. (090501)

bottle, pours hazy orange with a tall white head, good lacing. Aroma is carmel, fruity yeast, and orange. Flavors are light and creamy, with yeast, orange and a light malt ending with a mild bitterness that is more spice than hops. Rather sweet.

Bottle 33cl. @ home.
Clear medium yellow orange color with a average to large, frothy, good lacing, mostly lasting, white head. Aroma is moderate malty, toasted, light to moderate hoppy, moderate yeasty, spicy, coriander notes, toffee notes, anis sead. Flavor is moderate to light heavy sweet and bitter with a average to long duration. Spicy and good balanced. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft. [20081022]