Tag Archives: blonde ale

CAROLINA BLONDE

Simplistic pilsner-styled blonde ale with pearly head, thinly clouded body, scant sourdough yeast frontage, and slim citrus/ green apple souring lacks prevalent flavor. Second sip reveals wet grass, barnyard, horsehide, and raw wheat infiltration overhauling benign phenol tenacity. In slim black canned version, cloying cheap whiskey malting lowers white breaded appeal. Still, lemony hop-spiced fizz, maize-dried core, and light watery finish bests Coors, Miller, and other macrobrew duds.

RADER BLONDE ALE

Delicately sumptuous light-bodied aperitif with liquor-distilled 5% alcohol flow, billowy pearl head, and hazed yellow body brings ‘natural gin’ flavoring to mouth-cleansing mint-y ginger freshness. Zesty black-peppered juniper berry manifesto elevates inceptive floral-coriander zip, lithe lemony grapefruit sashay, and botanical herb smidgen.

ISLE OF ARRAN BLONDE

Cloudy golden ale integrates resinous piney bitterness with tangy lemon-peeled peach-pineapple-papaya tropicalia and surging grapefruit rind bitterness, gaining dry floral hop tangent by mild malt whiskey finish. Herbaceous eucalyptus-spearmint undertones and serene white-peppered clove seasoning hastily dissolve as raw wheat astringency rises.