Great was my surprise to see this “Kwak Blonde” during my holidays in Belgium.
I obviously know the original Kwak which got its name from the sound of the last sip going from the ball part underneath in the glass through the small pipe in the glass towards the mouth, a feeling and an experience one only could have drinking it from its original glass (I’ll make a post about this great beer as well at some point.
I’ve chosen a Chouffe glass to drink the beer from. It’s a Duvel-glass-shaped glass (just a bit smaller because I thought to drink it quicker than I would drink a Duvel) which I thought it could match because this kind of glass better keeps the foam, and enables me to appreciate the secondary aromas in a beer better. It was a wrong guess because these secondary aromas seemed to be inexistent in this beer.
Since my father hasn’t got the original glasses (I’ve got mine at home in Mallorca), probably not using the right glass made the Kwak experience to fail, like it would fail as well to drink an original Kwak in a different glass. (It does, I’ve tried it) Apart from this I was quite tired, and being tired it’s never the right moment to taste a beer, AND I drunk it at a way to high temperature because I forgot to put it in the fridge a bit in beforehand.
Because of the 7,4% alcohol I considered that it wouldn’t be a too big problem to drink it at a higher temperature, but I mistook. I should have known better since the original Kwak has 8,4% and 1% alcohol volume is quite something already.
I need to find “Kwak Blonde” in Mallorca, to drink it at least in the original glasses in order to to be able to evaluate it better, or have someone bringing it from Belgium…
