Radermacher Rader Blonde

Brewed by Brasserie de l’Abbaye du Val-Dieu
Style: Spice/Herb/Vegetable
Aubel, Belgium

Bottled (BBE 10/2007)
Hazy pale yellow, big foany head. Aroma has not much juniper but artifical lemon - Two Dogs type. Light, citrus crisp mouthfeel. Soda pop lemon in the flavor too, very faint flavor of juniper. Dissapointing lame brew from normal high-standard Val-Dieu.

A golden coloured beer with a decent white head. A juniper like taste with some lemons and some alcohol in the aftertaste. A beer to drink in small quantity’s but not bad. (Bottle 33cl)

Golden, thin head. Pine aroma, citrus and juniperberry. Flavor from pine and juniperberry, fruity, some grape and with a bitter finish. Different but ok.

Pale golden, white head. Aroma from juniperberry, pine, resin, citrus and grapefruit. Flavor brings juniperberry, pine and resinas well. Hoppy and rather dry. Different but quite ok.

Draught. Poured by a brewery official not knowing the first letter of the beer alphabet: 5cl of water remaining in the glass, spout fully in the head, had nearly to pour in three times - all the possible faults from the book. Disgrace! <P> Hell-gold beer; very dense fine head, stable as glue. Superb juniper-branch nose, laurel, piney and resiny. Again superb juniper - this time rather the berries - and resiny taste - truly great and innovative (although, the original "Dikkenek" from Martens...). Slick, medium bodied, some burning MF, not due to the malts, rather the distillate. This is a great new beertaste. This ought to get 17/20 maybe, but having this poured in such way by a brewery official, needs a form of punishment.

(bottle) Hazy orange colour with creamy white head. Very strong citric (lemon peel) and juniper (Wacholder) aroma, almost perfumed. A very special brew but far away from being boring. The juniper & coriander “spice” is dominating this beer. My (Schnapps)-tip for those who are interested: try Eversbusch Doppelwacholder from Hagen-Haspe !

Bottled. Lightly coloured beer with a stable white head. The aroma is slightly citric and the flavour is wheatish, citric and floral. Overall a good refreshing beer.

Bottled. yeasty, citrus-fruity, juniper aroma. Sweet, citric taste with a strong juniper flavour. I poured it down the drain, which was sad, as I think the Belgian blonde would have been quite drinkable without the juniper.