Voluptuous full-bodied billowy-headed champagne-like blonde in pudgy short-neck 11-ounce bottle leaves spider web-sized Brussels lace along glass sides. As original and inspiring as any hand-crafted bottle conditioned brew could aspire to be, its payoff is its distinctive contrast of orange peel tang and dark grain bitterness against cinnamon-nutmeg-doused malted wheat sweetness. Heavy carbonation never constricts floral essence. Filling, yet delicate on the tongue.
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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.
HARVIESTOUN BITTER & TWISTED
PETE’S WICKED RALLY CAP ALE
WALKERVILLE PREMIUM BLONDE
CASTELAIN KORMA BLONDE ALE
HOPPY LIQUID SUNSHINE BLONDE ALE
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.
(CHELSEA) CHECKER CAB BLONDE ALE
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.