Grisette Blonde - Brasserie St. Feuillien

lacqueredmouse

Australia

2.7/5  rDev -23.1%
look: 2 | smell: 2.5 | taste: 3 | feel: 2.5 | overall: 2.5

Cute 25cl bottle purchased from Plonk in Canberra.

Pours an unremarkable yellow-gold colour, with a touch of haze, and a fizzling, insubstantial head of bubble white. Very light body without a lot of visible carbonation. Some mild sudsy lace. Overall, it looks relatively similar to a bland mass-produced lager. I'm unimpressed.

Nose is sweet and round, cut with peppery, almost astringent ester characters, which give a whiff of wintergreen and mouthwash. Slight wet grain funk, bottom of the barnyard, hay left in the rain, fermenting grass clippings. It gives it almost a fishy or seaweed character. Hrmm...

Taste is blander, but the better for it: the funk and bordering rot/fish character disappears, leaving just the tomatoey roundness, the wet grain sack and a light sugary sweetness on the back. I mean, it's not great, but it beats putting some fragrant marine-life in your mouth. Palate is pretty flat.

At best, this is a run-of-the-mill, weak Belgian pale ale. At worst, it doesn't bear repeating. This is pretty insipid stuff, showing that even the Belgians can be completely uninspired, and can do bland and pedestrian with the best of them.

Serving type: bottle

08-03-2012 06:42:24 | More by lacqueredmouse

thierrynantes

France

3.83/5  rDev +9.1%
look: 3.5 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5

eer bottle (33cl.), tasted in 2003.

Appearance : yellow color, with white foamy head.
Smell : grain, with a little spicy yeast aromas.
Taste and mouthfeel : sweet, malty, we feel fruity flavors and a discreet bitterness.
Drinkability : a good beer in the style Belgian Pale ale.

Serving type: bottle

11-29-2008 17:07:19 | More by thierrynantes

BlackHaddock

United Kingdom (England)

3.78/5  rDev +7.7%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4

Brown 25cl bottle, best before April 2008, drank July 2007.

Poured into one of my Corsendonk tulip glasses.

It is a slightly hazy golden colour with a good white foaming head.

The aroma is yeasty with a sweetness, not unlike a freshly cut wheat or barley smell.

The taste is a lot sharper than I was expecting and a whole lot more sour than most Belgian blondes I've had over the years.

The tangy feel in the taste stays in the mouth and lingers well for a beer of 4.5%. There is no great depth to the flavours, but it is a well crafted drink.

I found this beer to be very interesting and will seek it out again when next in Belgium, well worth getting a bigger bottle, if I see one.

Serving type: bottle

07-13-2007 17:07:10 | More by BlackHaddock