Duyck Jenlain No. Six (Blonde 6%)

Brewed by Duyck
Style: Pale Lager
Jenlain, France

Pour us a hazy yellow with a large white head. Aroma is skunk at first then there is some corny sweetness. Flavor is again lots of sweetness and cornyness. When i bought this i thought it would be a BDG like all the other Jenlain beers but sadly this was a piece of crap pale lager.

Canned 50cl. It pours a golden beer with a tall head. The aroma is of malt, honey, marmelade, candied fruits and metal. Sweet malty taste with notes of honey, marshmallows and candy. Low bitterness. Medium bodied. Easy drinkable. Good lacework. Malty finish with fennel and melissa sneaking in. Rather nice. Thanks bov!

500 ml can in Paris, 2006. 2-3 Medium golden color, cloudy, decent head. Slight orange tint. Aroma of malt and yeast, quite sweet, reminiscent of an Austrian bock. Cookies, caramel, Malty, sweet flavor, with cookies. Not a lot of hops. Fruity, grapes or raisins, maybe melon, apples and alcohol, very good malt. Tastes like a lager bock. Sweet, slightly fruity finish with almost no hops and a slight trace of alcohol. A nice malty beer, but not good balance. A touch too sweet. It claims to be highly hopped, but it is not very bitter. I certainly taste some, but I wouldn’t say the hop taste is strong. I suppose the can is also hurting the taste… Not bad, but not as good as many critics have said it was.

essa Pale Lager francesa foi uma grata surpresa. Seu teor alcoólico, de 6%, já avisava previamente que essa não seria uma representante comum do estilo. Sua espuma alva apresentou portentosa aparência inicial, bem como cremosidade. Há excelente formação de colarinho e grande longevidade em seu borbulhante corpo dourado-escuro. O agradável e excêntrico aroma (para o estilo) é composto de presença moderada de lúpulo, abacaxi e notas cítricas. O sabor inicial é levemente doce e ácido, tornando-se moderadamente amargo no final, este de curta duração. Apresenta gosto frutado, semelhante ao de um bom vinho branco (sendo essa, no entanto, a única semelhança com esta bebida). No paladar, sorve-se um corpo médio, de textura seca, carbonatação suave (para o estilo) e final chalky (lembrando giz). Seu início alcoólico foge do padrão do estilo.

gold blond coloured sparkling body with a white head a spicy fruity hoppy aroma a spicy sweet hoppy fruity taste with a bitter finish

Clear goldblond coloured beer with small white head and few carbonation. Hoppy spicy, herby aroma. Full creamy palate. Finish is herby sweet and littly dry. Ok.

23-Mar-07 (500-ml bottle: Obtained in trade with Otter, thanks Jeremy!) Prominent oxidation, sweet bread, and sugary corn flavor, yikes, this is pretty bad stuff. The sweetness is completely unchallenged and it’s pretty sickening right from the first sip. No hops and no quality malt flavor, it just tastes like the brewer dumped in sugar by the truckload. Aromas of sweet corn and oxidized grainy malts in the background. Light bodied with most of the "heavy" mouthfeel coming from the sugary sweetness. Medium carbonation. Pale-golden in color with a slight haze. Tall, bubbly white head slowly recedes in rocky fashion, leaving a sponge-painted pattern of lace on the glass. Awful. Time to go brush my teeth.

33cl bottle. Pours golden with a fine head & lacings.Very grassy/grainy & herbal. A bit sweet with a vague metallic note. Dry end with a decent bitterness! A good pale lager!