La Trappe Blond

Brewed by De Koningshoeven (Bavaria - Netherlands)
Style: Belgian Ale
Tilburg, Netherlands

33cl bottle at home, iRate: Lightly hazy dark gold with an amber center brew with a fading and somewhat creamy white head. Pale malt aroma with some oxidized caramel qualities. Golden raisins and some tea leaves... The tea goes with the oxidation. A touch of biscuit and a faint far off vanilla. Nice pale malt in the mouth... But definitely oxidized. Wet newspaper flows into more pale malt with brown sugar and a drizzle of caramel. Touches of toast, caramel, and soft cassonade sugar finish it out with just the right ammount of residual sugars.

Slight hazy honey gold hue, with a white head, but falls quickly, leaving a ring of foam, yeasty, fruity, honeyed pale malt, bready dough, spicy nose with some pear, ripe apple, light lemon citrusy, zesty esters, with a hint of nutmeg spiciness and a mild candi sugar aroma follows through on a medium-bodied palate with a yeasty, spicy, honeyish pale malt character, with some bready dough, candi sugar accents, some fruity pear, Granny Smith apple, lemon, zesty citrusy notes,with a faint flowery hop grassiness, leading towards a spicy, honey, lingering hop bitterness finish.

when i see this one i buy it and open without waiting and i am very dissapoineted...

Pours a deep golden blond colour with thick soapy head. Flavour has a candy sweetness. Also has some sharp, refeshing fruit and a little spiciness.

This is the first time I try a trappist beer from Holland, and quite frankly even if its geographicly close to Belgium, its beer is far from its neighboors. I pours a clear gold color with an almost non exsistant white foam. It has a malty taste but nothing special to my liking. I have had many regular lager that are much better, and for a Trappist I was very dissapointed.

The View Nice blond beer fine bubbled foam. The smell Flowers and fruity smell apple, banana and peer Taste Smooth and litter sourer not hoppy and CO2 sparking

330ml bottle into a Trappist glass. A hazy golden ale with one finger of loose off white head. Spicy yeast aromas predominate with hints of oranges and caramel malts. The taste is fruity (mainly orangey) and quite sweet but it finishes with a gentle warming bitterness. It is not as sweet as a Leffe Blonde. Medium bodied and drinkable. Not bad at all.

[33cl bottle from Morrisons.] Hazy amber with a dense white head; yeasty aroma with a touch of apple; fresh, clean, bitter flavours with some apple fruit; heavily carbonated; dry and gently bitter finish.