{"id":13332,"date":"2025-08-06T20:33:39","date_gmt":"2025-08-06T18:33:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/expatkaliningrad.com\/?p=13332"},"modified":"2025-08-06T20:33:49","modified_gmt":"2025-08-06T18:33:49","slug":"tapkoc-belgian-blond-ale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/expatkaliningrad.com\/ru\/tapkoc-belgian-blond-ale\/","title":{"rendered":"Tapkoc Belgian Blond Ale"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Craft, Imported and Specialty Beers:&nbsp;Tapkoc Belgium Blond Ale<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Mick Hart\u2019s difficult job of reviewing craft, imported and specialty beers in Kaliningrad<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>6 August 2025 &#8211; Tapkoc Belgian Blond Ale<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">With the name Tapkoc on the collar label, and beneath it, on the label proper, the picture of a piddling cherub (<em>Manneken Pis<\/em>) with \u2018censored\u2019 slapped over his naughty bits, who could resist the play on words? We could, fellow drinkers, because, dear beloved, we are gathered here today to conduct the serious business of reviewing Belgian Blond Ale.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Trusting that the brewers would never be so brave as to brew a beer with \u2018told you so!\u2019 in mind, I left <a href=\"https:\/\/expatkaliningrad.com\/cultura-kaliningrad-a-world-wide-beer-bonanza\/\" title=\"\">Cultura Bottle Shop<\/a> with Tapkoc nestling in my nice brown paper bag, confident that what was in a name and upon a label had nothing to do whatsoever with what was in the beer or what it would taste like.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>Beer review links:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>[<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/expatkaliningrad.com\/ru\/butauty-beer-in-kaliningrad-how-good-is-it\/\"><strong>Butauty<\/strong><\/a><strong>] [<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/expatkaliningrad.com\/ru\/kanapinis-cannabis-beer-in-kaliningrad-is-it-good\/\"><strong>Kanapinis (light)<\/strong><\/a><strong>] [<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/expatkaliningrad.com\/kanapinis-dark-beer-in-kaliningrad-how-good-is-it\/\"><strong>Kanapinis (dark)<\/strong><\/a><strong>]<br><\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/expatkaliningrad.com\/keptinis-farmhouse-beer-in-kaliningrad-is-it-good\/\"><strong>[Keptinis Farmhouse<\/strong><\/a><strong>][<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/expatkaliningrad.com\/bistrampolio-beer-in-kaliningrad-is-it-any-good\/\"><strong>Bistrampolio<\/strong><\/a><strong>]&nbsp;<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/expatkaliningrad.com\/387-osobaya-varka-beer-in-kaliningrad-good-or-not\/\"><strong>[387 Osobaya Varka]<\/strong><\/a><strong> [<a href=\"https:\/\/expatkaliningrad.com\/double-mother-t-double-chocolate-stout-rewort\/\" title=\"\">Double Mother T.<\/a>]<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Let\u2019s come to this from another direction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Heaven forbid that I would be so lax as to invite accusations of vulgarity, but I sincerely believe that no student of the English language can claim to have mastered that language until they have complete understanding and appreciation of the many idiomatic expressions and the daily uses to which they are put. Take \u2018piss\u2019, for example \u2014 no crudity intended \u2014 not to be confused with \u2018taking the piss\u2019, which is something I\u2019d never do.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">The impolite word \u2018piss\u2019, together with its derivatives and associations, has extremely versatile usage in the English language, a fact no better illustrated than when it is used in conjunction with the gentlemanly art of beer drinking. Take note (make some, if you like): the expression \u2018going on the piss\u2019 is a common phrase in the United Kingdom. Precisely translated, it means \u2018to go on the beer\u2019, of which an elaboration would be to indulge in a beer-drinking session. Not that in England beer is considered urine; on the contrary, since the dissolution of Watney\u2019s piss water, beer is held in high esteem by many, even exalted by some. For example, when we say in England that we have been on a \u2018piss-up\u2019 or \u2018pissing it up\u2019, it\u2019s not something we are ashamed to admit to; quite the reverse, in fact. &#8216;Piss artists&#8217; are rather proud of having been \u2018on the piss\u2019. We regard it not in terms of disapprobation but as something of an achievement.\u00a0In other words, when the English say they\u2019ve been &#8216;pissing it up&#8217;, the connotation of shame is rarely present.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">People who have been &#8216;on the piss&#8217; may feel a little embarrassed when they are forced to admit in consequence that they ended up \u2018totally pissed\u2019 and in the process disgraced themselves, but by and large they are not &#8216;pissed off&#8217; to have &#8216;pissed it (their money) up the wall&#8217; and ended up quite rat-arsed. Please note, however, that whilst many who go &#8216;on the piss&#8217; invariably end up rat-arsed, they are rarely ever, if ever, referred to by themselves, their relatives, friends or colleagues as \u2018rat-arsers\u2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">The English are nothing if not reserved, preferring, if at all possible, to avoid the more debasing title of \u2018pisshead\u2019 in relation to their drinking habits but have no difficulty whatsoever in accepting the synonym \u2018piss artist\u2019 \u2014 a name which many practitioners wear as though it were a badge of honour.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Excuse me, once again, if only for excusing myself, which some may infer as a sly attempt to circumvent self-censorship for the sake of being crude and wanting, like a naughty boy, to see the word \u2018piss\u2019 in print (well, it makes a change from writing sh\u2026hhhhh!) It\u2019s just that \u2018piss\u2019 and the past tense \u2018pissed\u2019 have such astonishing versatility within the English language, almost as much, but not quite, as another adaptive English word, which is \u2018fart\u2019, but we won\u2019t fart about with that at the moment. We will leave that for a later lesson and get down now to the serious business of tasting this Belgian blond, coz if we carry on like this, getting pissed will be out of the question.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote has-light-gray-background-color has-background is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p><strong>Tapkoc Belgium Blond Ale won a Bronze medal in the \u2018Light Ale\u2019 category of the competition for brewing products ROSGLAVPIVO-2023 and a Gold medal in the international competition Beer 2024 in Sochi.<\/strong><br>[source: <a href=\"https:\/\/tarkos.ru\/catalog\/blond-el\/\">https:\/\/tarkos.ru\/catalog\/blond-el\/<\/a>]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading has-medium-font-size\">Tapkoc Belgian Blond Ale<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">So, the beer with the piddling Belgian boy claims to be a Belgian blond ale. What exactly did I make of it?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"625\" height=\"883\" data-attachment-id=\"13336\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/expatkaliningrad.com\/ru\/tapkoc-belgian-blond-ale\/belgian-blond-ale-label-rz-min\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/expatkaliningrad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Belgian-Blond-Ale-Label-rz-min.jpg?fit=900%2C1272&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"900,1272\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Belgian Blond Ale Label\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/expatkaliningrad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Belgian-Blond-Ale-Label-rz-min.jpg?fit=212%2C300&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/expatkaliningrad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Belgian-Blond-Ale-Label-rz-min.jpg?fit=625%2C883&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/expatkaliningrad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Belgian-Blond-Ale-Label-rz-min.jpg?resize=625%2C883&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Tapkoc Belgian Blond Ale\" class=\"wp-image-13336\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/expatkaliningrad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Belgian-Blond-Ale-Label-rz-min.jpg?resize=725%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 725w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/expatkaliningrad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Belgian-Blond-Ale-Label-rz-min.jpg?resize=212%2C300&amp;ssl=1 212w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/expatkaliningrad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Belgian-Blond-Ale-Label-rz-min.jpg?resize=768%2C1085&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/expatkaliningrad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Belgian-Blond-Ale-Label-rz-min.jpg?resize=8%2C12&amp;ssl=1 8w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/expatkaliningrad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Belgian-Blond-Ale-Label-rz-min.jpg?resize=624%2C882&amp;ssl=1 624w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/expatkaliningrad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Belgian-Blond-Ale-Label-rz-min.jpg?resize=17%2C24&amp;ssl=1 17w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/expatkaliningrad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Belgian-Blond-Ale-Label-rz-min.jpg?resize=25%2C36&amp;ssl=1 25w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/expatkaliningrad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Belgian-Blond-Ale-Label-rz-min.jpg?resize=34%2C48&amp;ssl=1 34w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/expatkaliningrad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Belgian-Blond-Ale-Label-rz-min.jpg?w=900&amp;ssl=1 900w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 625px) 100vw, 625px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">At first sniff, the blond Belgian releases a lovely bouquet of tangy, hoppy notes, accompanied by a deeper, rounded sound. No, this is not the follow-up English lesson that I mentioned earlier. The aroma of this beer is a nose-fondling melody. It\u2019s not quite a symphony of scents, but it pulls out the organ stops similar to the way in which Gobbo Fletton, our village church organist, did during the 1960s, that is, forcefully but in no particular order.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">I was relieved, as much as the boy on the bottle, by this reassuring revelation. And yet, as the beer didn\u2019t smell like p\u2026, what exactly did it smell of? Potato juice or pastry? As pale and pallid as it certainly is, someone had come along and put body in this beer (which is different from somebody\u2019s body), and the part that was the most pleasing was that it packed a bit of an oomph. (No, this is not the follow-up lesson to which I alluded earlier.) <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">In the glass, Belgian Blond has a hazy fantayzee look, which, for a blond beer, is often interpreted as a sign of honest-to-goodness, natural quality, particularly if the fruit-basket scent is oranges and lemons, say the belles with large melons. The chorus line of different notes is as revealing and provocative as the 19<sup>th<\/sup>-century music hall Can-Can. Can they? Yes, they can. Have they? By Jove, they have. The fruity exterior cleverly masks a deceptively deep, dense flavour, which may or may not be innocent or, failing that, have been put there on purpose.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Storm in a teacup or pee in a pod? I have no intention of pissing about or pissing off the brewers; Tapkoc is no clone. For a start, and at the finish, Belgian Blond is a six-percenter, and I seriously doubt you will find anything anywhere which subtly brings together such a pleasing piquant taste and underlying strength. If the motive for drinking it is still unclear, perhaps we had better call Poirot. He was Belgian, was he not?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Ah, now you are taking the \u2014 guess the penultimate word competition \u2014 p\u2026&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">And my last word on the subject? Writing this review was easy. In fact, it was a piece of \u2014 guess the last word competition \u2014 p \u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong>BOX TICKER\u2019S CORNER<\/strong><br><strong>Name of Beer:<\/strong>\u00a0Tapkoc Belgian Blond Ale<br><strong>Brewer:<\/strong>\u00a0Tarkos Brewery<br><strong>Where it is brewed:<\/strong>\u00a0Voronezh, Russia<br><strong>Bottle capacity:<\/strong>\u00a00.5 litre<br><strong>Strength:<\/strong>\u00a06%<br><strong>Price:<\/strong>\u00a0130 roubles (\u00a31.20)<br><strong>Appearance:<\/strong>\u00a0Blond<br><strong>Aroma:<\/strong>\u00a0So much to choose from<br><strong>Taste:<\/strong>\u00a0An interesting and not unflavourable test of the taste buds<br><strong>Fizz amplitude:<\/strong>\u00a05%<br><strong>Label\/Marketing:<\/strong>\u00a0Statue of a small boy urinating<br><strong>Would you buy it again?\u00a0<\/strong>It\u2019s already happened<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Beer rating<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"625\" height=\"59\" data-attachment-id=\"9632\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/expatkaliningrad.com\/ru\/kanapinis-cannabis-beer-in-kaliningrad-is-it-good\/screenshot-2023-11-20-151415\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/expatkaliningrad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Screenshot-2023-11-20-151415.png?fit=810%2C77&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"810,77\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Mick Hart Beer Reviews Kaliningrad\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/expatkaliningrad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Screenshot-2023-11-20-151415.png?fit=300%2C29&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/expatkaliningrad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Screenshot-2023-11-20-151415.png?fit=625%2C59&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/expatkaliningrad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Screenshot-2023-11-20-151415.png?resize=625%2C59&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Mick Hart Beer Rating Scales\" class=\"wp-image-9632\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/expatkaliningrad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Screenshot-2023-11-20-151415.png?w=810&amp;ssl=1 810w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/expatkaliningrad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Screenshot-2023-11-20-151415.png?resize=300%2C29&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/expatkaliningrad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Screenshot-2023-11-20-151415.png?resize=768%2C73&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/expatkaliningrad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Screenshot-2023-11-20-151415.png?resize=18%2C2&amp;ssl=1 18w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/expatkaliningrad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Screenshot-2023-11-20-151415.png?resize=624%2C59&amp;ssl=1 624w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/expatkaliningrad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Screenshot-2023-11-20-151415.png?resize=24%2C2&amp;ssl=1 24w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/expatkaliningrad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Screenshot-2023-11-20-151415.png?resize=36%2C3&amp;ssl=1 36w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/expatkaliningrad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Screenshot-2023-11-20-151415.png?resize=48%2C5&amp;ssl=1 48w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 625px) 100vw, 625px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-background\" style=\"background-color:#f3d7d7\">The brewer\u2019s website&nbsp;has this to say about&nbsp;<strong>Tapkoc Belgian Blond Ale<\/strong>:<br>A rich golden ale with a subtle, ethereal aroma of spices, created by Belgian yeast. The strong beer gives a noticeable warming effect and stimulates the taste buds but does not overload them. It is an ideal accompaniment to exquisite dishes. Website:&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/tarkos.ru\/\">https:\/\/tarkos.ru\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong>Wot other\u2019s say<\/strong>&nbsp;[Comments on Tapkoc Belgian Blond Ale from the internet, unedited]<br>\ud83e\udd14 It\u2019s OK, but it smells like cardboard. [Comment: That\u2019s because he\u2019s got a cardboard box stuck on his head.]<br>\ud83d\ude09 The beer may not be quite in style, but it\u2019s interesting, and I liked it. [Comment: You can\u2019t say fairer than that.]<br>\ud83d\ude11 I don\u2019t get the joke about the name Tapkoc and its relevance to the peeing cherub. [Comment: An unassimilated migrant living in the UK]<br>\ud83d\ude0e Unusual in everything &#8211; from the label to the taste. [Comment: He\u2019s got it!]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Copyright \u00a9 2018-2025 Mick Hart. All rights reserved.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Craft, Imported and Specialty Beers:&nbsp;Tapkoc Belgium Blond Ale Mick Hart\u2019s difficult job of reviewing craft, imported and specialty beers in Kaliningrad 6 August 2025 &#8211; Tapkoc Belgian Blond Ale With the name Tapkoc on the collar label, and beneath it, on the label proper, the picture of a piddling cherub (Manneken Pis) with \u2018censored\u2019 slapped [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13335,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130],"tags":[480,2603,2605,2606,483,2604,2607],"class_list":["post-13332","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-life-in-kaliningrad","tag-beer-drinking-kaliningrad","tag-belgian-blond-ale","tag-belgian-blond-ale-in-kaliningrad","tag-craft-beers-kaliningrad","tag-englishman-beer-kaliningrad","tag-tapkoc-belgian-blond-ale","tag-tarkos-brewery"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/expatkaliningrad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Belgian-Blond-Ale-Tapkoc-rz-min.jpg?fit=900%2C1200&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":13891,"url":"https:\/\/expatkaliningrad.com\/ru\/evening-in-bruges-beer\/","url_meta":{"origin":13332,"position":0},"title":"Evening in Bruges Beer: what&#8217;s it like?","author":"Mick","date":"15 \u0434\u0435\u043a\u0430\u0431\u0440\u044f, 2025","format":false,"excerpt":"Craft, Imported and Specialty Beers:\u00a0Evening in Bruges Mick Hart\u2019s difficult job of reviewing craft, imported and specialty beers in Kaliningrad 15 December 2025 - Evening\u00a0in\u00a0Bruges\u00a0beer\u00a0 Would you trust a man with a clip-on black beard, wearing a dark bowler hat with a cherry stuck on top? 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