Belgian and French Ales: Belgian Strong Blonde Ale
Notes: These beers are often brewed with light-colored Belgian candy sugar. Herbs and spices are sometimes used to delicately flavor these strong ales. These beers can be malty in overall impression or dry and highly attenuated. They can have a deceptively high alcohol character and a relatively light body for beers of high alcoholic strength. Some versions may be equally high in alcohol with a more medium in body.
- Color: Straw to light amber
- Clarity: Chill haze is acceptable at low temperatures
- Malt Profile: Malt character is low to medium. A complex fruitiness is often present.
- Hop Profile: Medium-low to medium-high
- Bitterness: Medium-low to medium-high
- Fermentation: Low to medium fruity esters are present. Yeast-derived phenolic spicy flavors and aromas should be present at low to medium-low levels. Diacetyl is usually absent in these beers but may be present at very low levels.
- Body: Very low to medium
- ABV: 7.1%-11.2%
- ABW: 5.6%-8.8%
- IBU: 20-50
- Color (SRM): 2-7
- Color (EBC): 4-14
- Original Gravity: 1.064-1.096
- Original Gravity °P: 15.7-22.9
- Final Gravity: 1.008-1.024
- Final Gravity °P: 2-6.1
Style info provided entirely or in part by the Brewers Association 2021 beer style guidelines.
11 Belgian Strong Blonde Ale Reviewed
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