La Porte de Hainaut Blonde

Brewed by Brasserie La Choulette
Style: Bière de Garde
Hordain, France

Bottle, at Delirium Café, Göteborg. Cloudy golden colour. Notes of coriander and orange peel in aroma and flavour.

Golden orange colour and quite lively on pouring.Unusual mouthfeel, a bit fruity and slightly bitter. I usually like this style but have my doubts about this one.

Bottle shared with HogTownHarry at Smokeless Joe. Wow, a lot of the other raters are hard on this beer in my opinion. Pours a cloudy dark yellow with a small white head. Nice aroma of honey, fruit, yeast and malt. Mild sweet flavour of fruit and malt. Body’s a little thin. Nothing fancy but it’s pleasant, easy to drink and quite enjoyable.

330ml Bottle, Picked up from the ’Dodgy Deli’ on the Cowley Rd, Oxford. I agree with Blankboy, some of the others are being a bit hard on this beer, I really liked it poured cloudy and yellow really honey aroma which stretched through into the flavour, bit weak on the hop front and malts not massively present but it was nice and easy drinking.

0.25 l bottle. Deep golden color with frothy head. Aromas of toffee, malt and vanilla with distant fruitiness and herbal hops. The same elements continue in the flavor along with nutty and bisquity malt.

Bottle, Rainhall Drinks co, Barnoldswick. Golden, with a medium white head. Apple n’ pear, yeasty aroma which is quite appealing. Sweetish flavour, doesn’t quite hit the spot, more fruit there and maybe some hop struggling to get out. Quite dry and a slight bitterness lurking. Ok, but all a bit average.

Bottle (330ml). At Smokeless Joe shared with blankboy. Quite a few light coloured floaties. Poured hazy gold with a small disappearing white head. Aroma was incredibly rich, rich oily/resiny yeast, a faint dry chocolate malt character too. Taste was very mild, resiny wheat grain, faint dried out hops and flowers. Mouthfeel was very, very dry. I loved the aroma, but overall - mostly like a decent non-macro lager

Bottled. Strong head, glazed blonde body. The flavour is slightly dry but mainly mellow vinous and the aroma is quite alcoholic and fruity. Overall a poor beer for the style.