Blonde Belgian-style Ale
Red Collar Brewing Co.
- From:
- Red Collar Brewing Co.
- British Columbia, Canada
- Style:
- Belgian Blonde Ale
- ABV:
- 5%
- Score:
- +8 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.78 | pDev: 1.32%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 2
- Status:
- Inactive
- Rated:
- Feb 01, 2018
- Added:
- Nov 20, 2017
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
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Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by polloenfuego from Canada (NB)
3.73/5 rDev -1.3%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.75
3.73/5 rDev -1.3%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.75
Pours a clear deep gold in color with about a finger and a half of white frothy head. Retention is decent, a lovely cap and collar left behind on break and some lacing.
Smell is Belgian yeast, a touch of banana, some biscuit/bread malts and some hops that seem a little stronger than usual for the style.
Taste is Belgian yeast and candi, followed by a bitterness from the hops, which are slightly muddled but curb the sweet well enough. The malts mentioned before are also present.
Feel is medium and the carbonation is active. I got a touch of a mineral aftertaste along with the dry finish.
I don't think this is the greatest example of the style,but there are some high points in its favor. The yeast and phenols are quite good,I just wish the finish was better.
Feb 01, 2018Smell is Belgian yeast, a touch of banana, some biscuit/bread malts and some hops that seem a little stronger than usual for the style.
Taste is Belgian yeast and candi, followed by a bitterness from the hops, which are slightly muddled but curb the sweet well enough. The malts mentioned before are also present.
Feel is medium and the carbonation is active. I got a touch of a mineral aftertaste along with the dry finish.
I don't think this is the greatest example of the style,but there are some high points in its favor. The yeast and phenols are quite good,I just wish the finish was better.
Reviewed by biboergosum from Canada (AB)
3.83/5 rDev +1.3%
look: 4.25 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 4
3.83/5 rDev +1.3%
look: 4.25 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 4
650ml bottle - a bit of unusual stuff going on here (French 'aromatic' malts and fermenting at lager temperatures, for starters).
This beer pours a clear, and rather bright medium copper amber colour, with three fingers of puffy, loosely foamy, and bubbly eggshell white head, which leaves some decent layered tacky snow rime lace around the glass as it slowly subsides.
It smells of estery Belgian yeast, some muddled light stone fruitiness, clover honey, gritty and grainy cereal malt, a hint of white and black pepper mill dust, and some very subtle earthy, leafy, and floral noble hop bitters. The taste is grainy and crackery pale malt, an ephemeral caramel sweetness, some indistinct pome and domestic citrus fruity notes, a gently phenolic Belgian yeastiness, dried and crusty honey, mixed peppercorn spice, and more well understated leafy, weedy, and dead floral hoppiness.
The carbonation is fairly active in its twirling and swirling frothiness, the body a decent middleweight, and mostly smooth, with just a touch of yeasty intransigence messing with the ideal here. It finishes rather dry, the yeast and bled-out malt the lingering order of the day.
Overall - this is a nicely rendered version of the style, with the yeast definitely large and in charge, but hardly overbearing, as such. Worthy of checking out, especially if this sort of thing typically floats yer proverbial boat.
Nov 20, 2017This beer pours a clear, and rather bright medium copper amber colour, with three fingers of puffy, loosely foamy, and bubbly eggshell white head, which leaves some decent layered tacky snow rime lace around the glass as it slowly subsides.
It smells of estery Belgian yeast, some muddled light stone fruitiness, clover honey, gritty and grainy cereal malt, a hint of white and black pepper mill dust, and some very subtle earthy, leafy, and floral noble hop bitters. The taste is grainy and crackery pale malt, an ephemeral caramel sweetness, some indistinct pome and domestic citrus fruity notes, a gently phenolic Belgian yeastiness, dried and crusty honey, mixed peppercorn spice, and more well understated leafy, weedy, and dead floral hoppiness.
The carbonation is fairly active in its twirling and swirling frothiness, the body a decent middleweight, and mostly smooth, with just a touch of yeasty intransigence messing with the ideal here. It finishes rather dry, the yeast and bled-out malt the lingering order of the day.
Overall - this is a nicely rendered version of the style, with the yeast definitely large and in charge, but hardly overbearing, as such. Worthy of checking out, especially if this sort of thing typically floats yer proverbial boat.
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