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Idle Hands Craft Ales in Malden, Massachusetts, United States 🇺🇸
Belgian Style - Blonde / Pale / Amber Rotating Out of Production|
Score
7.15
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The first beer ever produced by Idle Hands and returning to celebrate our 10th anniversary. The beer itself was used to “grow up” the Idle Hands house Belgian yeast that would be used for many generations in producing other beers and thus, it really was the father of all of our other beers (at the time). It showcases the flavors of fermentation with hints of fruit reminiscent of ripe apples and white grape skin, backed by a spicy, earthy character.
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7.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
4 oz. sample at the brewery. Pours unclear golden yellow with a small white head. Aroma is mild yeasty, lightly fruity. Mellow subtle yeast. Mild crisp texture with mild estery tones. Crisp mellow fruity finish. Subtle sweet. Actually, very drinkable on a warm spring day.
Tried
on 07 May 2018
at 11:44
7.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 8
Bottle shared at Sander Stag. Pours clear gold with a foamy, white head. Some light honey, biscuits, dough, lemon peel. Medium sweet flavour with more biscuit, honey, mellow citrus, dough, yeast. Light to medium bodied with massaging carbonation. Nicely balanced finish, more yeast, faint funk, pale bread, a little musty hay. Solid stuff.
Tried
from Bottle
on 02 Jul 2016
at 20:22
7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Draught at Glenville Stops, 8/7/15.
Good clarity, light blonde and has a moderately well-retained white head atop.
Soft esters, honey and other pale malt notes all are quite gentle/graceful on the nose. Light hops are grassy, lightly herbal and feel very at home here. Again, so nice to not have a "we made a belgian golden with a twist!" beer (twist being out-of-place American hops). Flowers, a touch of perfume from the yeast and more dough and bread-like maltiness on the finish, with no alcohol or flaws noted.
Soft, supple malt texture with light honey, graham cracker and other pale grain notes joined by soft, floral and lightly spicy hop notes towards the finish. Very reserved yeast notes provide yellow fruit notes (light apricot, light orange, no peach and very little banana) and little/no acidity. Just a touch of white pepper-like phenols and no alcohol or flaws. Very well-done beer. It’s malty but still well-attenuated with no messy/sloppy Americanized phenols/esters and no astringent or sourdough-like malt character. Like River North Quandary, perhaps not the most complex beer in the world, but that’s fine with me if it means a cleaner, more reserved, less messy beer.
Good clarity, light blonde and has a moderately well-retained white head atop.
Soft esters, honey and other pale malt notes all are quite gentle/graceful on the nose. Light hops are grassy, lightly herbal and feel very at home here. Again, so nice to not have a "we made a belgian golden with a twist!" beer (twist being out-of-place American hops). Flowers, a touch of perfume from the yeast and more dough and bread-like maltiness on the finish, with no alcohol or flaws noted.
Soft, supple malt texture with light honey, graham cracker and other pale grain notes joined by soft, floral and lightly spicy hop notes towards the finish. Very reserved yeast notes provide yellow fruit notes (light apricot, light orange, no peach and very little banana) and little/no acidity. Just a touch of white pepper-like phenols and no alcohol or flaws. Very well-done beer. It’s malty but still well-attenuated with no messy/sloppy Americanized phenols/esters and no astringent or sourdough-like malt character. Like River North Quandary, perhaps not the most complex beer in the world, but that’s fine with me if it means a cleaner, more reserved, less messy beer.
Tried
from Can
on 17 Aug 2015
at 13:14
7.3/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7
Bottle from brewery. Pours orange gold with white head. Nose/taste of lemon, bubblegum, spicy Belgian yeast, pear, lemon, doughy toasted bread and grass. Lighter medium body. Tasty and sessionable.
Tried
from Bottle
on 31 May 2014
at 17:06
7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Pours hazy gold into a tulip. Marshmallow aromas. Dry with sweet biscuit and yeast front to back.
Tried
on 16 Jan 2014
at 16:25
7/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7
Hazy yellow color, white edge head. Aroma of slightly sour straw. Taste is rising white bread dough and lemon peel. Not bad.
Tried
on 09 Sep 2012
at 07:37