Grimbergen Blonde Ale

Grimbergen Blonde Ale
Brouwerij Alken-Maes
Belgium


If you can forgive me the Aztec motif on the showcased glassware then I can set aside the fact that you are a beer schwantz. Otherwise, I'll have to start making excuses (which are all true) that my tulips and chalices are all packed away in boxes or Cerberus swept in on a wave of mutilation (forgive me Sir Chucky Thompson) and splintered them all to shards with his soul-eating snout. Let us stop clasping each other's bung here and get on with it: I don't like you and you don't like me and we are all together in not preferring this brew. While no table beer or a macro staple this is clearly not a top-line Belgian. The sweetness is minimal in that it is more a yeasty, bready sour in a champagne kind of way. In essence: there but not there. The body is svelte, thin as wax paper and sans breasteses. Not to be shone through but hardly to be reflected off of and beyond. The beer cap, however, is of the finest quality and the bottle trails closely behind. Both are the reasons that I bought this one. That I have the cap in my collection is reason enough not to step forth again with this sucker into the free market of exchange.


- Wörtwurst