Monday, April 20, 2015

pFriem Belgian Strong Blonde

Time to see what the hype is all about. pFriem, local Oregon favorites, finally started bottling, so I now have no excuse not to try any.

This has a really nice color. It's a kind of peach-tone gradient with little bubbles and a creamy white head. It also has a great mouthfeel, rich and creamy. Smell is punchy, and I think there's a little too much coriander here for my taste. But other than coriander, it tastes kinda like banana (but less sweet), and maybe peach (though really it more looks like a peach than tastes like one). Other than that, not tons going on here, though assuming this is bottle conditioned (judging by the sediment), I could see this improving with age.

The label, incidentally, said it would taste like pear and clove. I don't really taste either.

In conclusion, this beer is good, and I look forward to trying more from pFriem. Corked and caged 375mL bottle makes for a nice presentation and is an appropriate size to share or consume by yourself. Was it worth $6? Not to me, but in the immortal parlance of LeVar Burton, you don't have to take my word for it.

No comments:

Post a Comment