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Westvleteren Blond 3.87 646

Westvleteren Blond

Percentile
98
overall
Brewed by Westvleteren Abdij St. Sixtus
Style: Belgian Ale

Westvleteren, Belgium

bottled
common

on tap
unknown

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RatingsAverageScoreABVStyle PctlServe in
6463.88/5.03.87/5.05.8%99.9Trappist glass, Tulip, Tumbler
Commercial Description:
Westvleteren Blond is the basic beer for the monks’ own consumption, since 1999, when the former 6° dark ale (red cap) was finally discarded, after the 4° had already gone that path.
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 Ungstrup (15380), Frederiksberg, Denmark
3.6 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/104/56/103/515/20
Nov 17, 2002  
A slightly unclear golden beer with at very good head. It has a very powerful aroma of fruit and ale yeast. The flavor is fresh at first and then woody and finishing with some sharpness on the back of the tongue - a for me unrecoqnizable spice. A very complex flavor.


 Papsoe (15103), Frederiksberg, Denmark
3.3 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/103/57/104/513/20
Jul 27, 2005  
(Bottle 33 cl) It’s rare but it does happen: a new Trappist beer. Pale golden with a huge head. Quite lightbodied with a very, very pronounced bitterness throughout. Fruity and fresh but also a bit sharp. Rather unusual trappist - perhaps Orval is the closest relative. But this lacks that beers refined spicyness. 220501


 yespr (12404), Copenhagen O, Denmark
3.6 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/103/57/104/515/20
Jan 5, 2007  
33 cL bottle. Pours almost white/clear but becomes slightly yellow. Clear fruity aroma with yeast elements. Carbonation as well. Almost no sweetness, has fruit notes, slightly nutty as well. Yeast and citric notes are dominating. Reminded me of Orval without being too similar. Aftertaste is suprisingly bitter, yet not overly dominating.


 omhper (12247), Stockholm, Sweden
4 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/104/58/105/515/20
Jun 4, 2002  
Very pale yellow, only slightly hazy. Grassy dry hop aroma. Medium bodied, dry with just a hint of toffee, clean firm malt profile. Like an elegant north German pilsener!


 fonefan (11866), VestJylland, Denmark
3.9 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/104/57/104/516/20
Sep 2, 2006  
Bottle. Pours yellow / golden, hazy with a small white head. Smells yeast, malt and grapefruit. Aroma is promising, with yeasts, malt, spice and hop, nice and very complex.


 MiP (9157), Sønderborg, Denmark
3.4 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/103/57/103/515/20
Dec 17, 2004  
Bottle. Slightly cloudy, yellow colour. Citrus aroma. Quite good bitterness from start to finish. Aromatic hoppy aftertaste. Reminds me more of an English than a Belgian ale.


 oh6gdx (9047), Vasa, Finland
4.1 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/104/58/105/516/20
Nov 18, 2005  
Bottled. Hazy pale apricotty orange/yellow colour with huge, longlasting foamish bubbly head, lacing. Spices, herbs, yeast and wheat in aroma. Also some hints of fruits and flowers. Flavour of herbs, fruit with flowery hoppish hints. Some wheat, caramel and grassyness in flavour too. A bit "soapish" at some point too. Sweetish bitter aftertaste at first, which then turns into smooth hops, and lasts long. Very well done brew! Rich carbonation, but not disturbing, makes palate quite pleasant.


 joergen (8627), Frederiksberg, Denmark
3.9 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
9/104/57/103/516/20
Nov 29, 2005  
Bottled. Cloudy yellow coloured with a medium sized lacing white head. Sweet candylike fruity aroma with notes of grapefruit, pine needles, hops and spices. Fruity flavour of grapefruit and pine needles with notes of hops and spices.



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