Blue Paddle
New Belgium Brewing Company in Fort Collins, Colorado, United States 🇺🇸
Lager - Czech Pilsner / Světlý Rotating Out of Production|
Score
6.16
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Climb on in and grab a paddle. Our first foray into lagered beers, Blue Paddle Pilsener-Lager, is a Czech style pilsener with a refreshing crispness from noble hops and a rich, malty finish. Blue Paddle refers to the implement our warehouse manager's Grandma once used to lovingly paddle his a** when she caught him stealing sips of her beer. With more body than a traditional Belgian pils, Blue Paddle is reflective of Europe’s finest pilseners.
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5.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 7
Bottle pour. Pours golden with a grassy aroma. Not really a stand out pilsener here. Pretty bland, but tastes alright overall. Sweet malt flavor and finish, with some grassy flavor too. This one was alright. Decent summer time beer.
Tried
from Bottle
on 07 Jul 2014
at 22:03
4.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 4
Flavor 4
Texture 6
Overall 4
Sampled on draft this beer poured a dark golden color with a huge foamy yellow-white head that lingered and left great lacing. The aroma was tangy, sweet and malty with a bit of sour mash, vague fruity hops and almost Pez. The flavor was tangy with mild bitterness, crisp fruity and floral hops and a bit of perfume and grass. Medium length finish.Medium body. Disappointing.
Tried
from Draft
on 25 Jun 2014
at 18:17
6.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
Pours golden with ok head and lacing. Very light banana here. Watery texture with fizz. Light bitterness in finish, crisp barley. On tap at DC Summerfest.
Tried
from Draft
on 27 May 2014
at 12:02
6.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Smooth, clean and crisp pils. Decent foamy head, mostly grain aroma and taste, lightly hopped
Tried
on 11 May 2014
at 13:36
7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
12oz bottle pours with a crystal clear bright gold body that supports an off white head. The mild aroma offers up some lightly sweet pilsner like malts as well as faint floral hops. Not nearly as pungent as I was expecting. The taste is much fuller than the nose led onto with a nice pilsner malt sweetened hop bite that’s floral and a touch lime before it gets into a pleasing degree of hop bitterness. It leaves that classic pilsner malty sort of hoppy after taste. Solid pils that could use a bit more aromatics.
Tried
from Bottle
on 22 Mar 2014
at 19:48
4.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 4
Texture 6
Overall 3.5
Bottle. A- Straw, grains, hay. A- Golden color, clear liquid, white head. T- Grains, corn, bitter. P- Medium body, average texture, average carbonation, crisp finish. O- A fair pilsener, crisp and dry and quite bitter.
Tried
from Bottle
on 31 Dec 2013
at 07:10
10/10
Tried
on 19 May 2013
at 22:25
6/10
Tried
on 29 Apr 2013
at 07:57
6.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Total Wine, Fairfax 12oz: Pours golden with white head. Aroma is a bit of grass and grain and a tad bit of that sugar. Taste is lightly sweet, with sustained hop bitterness. Nice mild lager aftertaste. Easy drinking and nice and sessionable.
Tried
on 18 Mar 2013
at 19:40
6/10
Tried
on 20 Oct 2012
at 17:26