Grimbergen Goud * Dorée

Aroma: 6 | Appearance: 7 | Mouthfeel: 6 | Flavor: 6 | Overall: 6

Bottled. Yellowish golden colour with mediumsized white head that leaves nice head. Aroma is fruityness along with grass and some alcoholic notes. Flavour is smooth malts, and wheat along with hops. Mild bananaish notes as it gets warm. When warm, also alcohol starts showing up more.

Aroma: 6 | Appearance: 3 | Mouthfeel: 4 | Flavor: 5 | Overall: 5

A fairly new beer, released early 2008. The brewer's website advices not to add the yeast residue that remaines in the bottle. This is by the way the first Grimbergen beer that referments in the bottle. I tried the first beer without adding the yeast residue. Grimbergen Goud * Dorée (which both means Gold in flemish and french) is a clear golden beer with a large white foam collar on top. It has a slight malty aroma. At first it feels accidic, followed by a wave of tastes of aromatic hop, which quickly fades into a strong occidant feeling. The aftertaste is slight malty and hoppy. The beer turns 'flat' quite fast and gets a more watery texture to it comparable to flemish white beers. You get no sense of the alcohol at all, which makes it an easy drinkable strong beer, just as the brewer describes it. In my opinion this beer is custom made for the recent popular market of drinking more and stronger beers. This does not at all add to the quality of the beer, since there's practically no taste to it at all except for a touch of malt and hop, which as I mentioned tend to fade quite fast. Adding the yeast residue adds a bit more body to the beer. Wouldn't advice it though if you're a beerlover.