Oddbins No.8 The Oak Smoked Blonde

No.8 The Oak Smoked Blonde

 

Oddbins in Walsall, West Midlands, England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

Brewed at/by: Anspach & Hobday
  Belgian Style - Blonde / Pale / Amber Regular Out of Production
Score
6.55
ABV: 4.2% IBU: - Ticks: 8
Oddbins No. 8 is a limited edition Blonde beer made in collaboration between Anspach & Hobday and Oddbins that mixes traditional brewing techniques with modern ideas. A delicate yet complex beer made using the traditional Orval yeast strain, Bastogne, and brewed with a portion of Oak Smoked Wheat to add a whiff of smokiness to the rich bread and herbaceous notes.
 

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6.8
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 7

Bottle from Oddbins, West Hampstead. Very active out of the bottle, took a lot of time to settle, and always with a thick frothy-bubbly head. It's smoking is light but pleasantly so, evident in both aroma and taste, but certainly more stated in the former. Hazy blonde with a heavy carbonation, too much so in my opinion. The wheat beer styling is decent enough.

Tried from Bottle on 17 Apr 2018 at 19:58


6.4
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

Bottle from Oddbins Aberdeen centre. It pours hazy blonde with a thick foamy white head. The aroma is bread, wood, rich meaty smoke, oak, apple, pear and melon. The taste is crisp, dry, apple, pear, melon, lemonade, green banana, bread, wood and light smoke with a drying finish. Medium body and high, foamy carbonation. Interesting stuff.

Tried from Bottle on 02 May 2017 at 13:57


4.8
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 4

4.2 bottle at home... Smoke herbal fruit.. Light acetone nose... Light herbal smoke

Tried from Bottle on 20 Apr 2017 at 05:32


6.9
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

Bottle shared with Ashton McCobb. Pours clear pale golden with a light haze and a thin white head. Aromas of light smoke, light spice. Taste is light bready, more smoke. Thin finish.

Tried from Bottle on 20 Mar 2017 at 07:39


6.4
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

Bottle from Oddbins. Appearance - golden with a light haze. Nose - orange and light smoke. Taste - loads of smoke and orange. Palate - light bodied with a smoky middle section that hangs on to the finish. Overall - ok.

Tried from Bottle on 20 Mar 2017 at 07:39


6.9
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5

Bottle at home in London - picked up at A&H. Rises from the bottle, slowly. Pours clear yellow, effervescent, with a billowing, frothy white head. Pleasant dry smoky notes in the nose, some biscuits, crisp wheat, lemon peel, dried ham. Light sweet flavour with some sugary pale bread, a little straw, smoked wood, some melon, meringue, dough. Light bodied with lively, massaging carbonation. Nicely balanced finish, with relaxed smoke, faint ash, more doughy wheat bread, some white sugar, ripening citrus, hints of banana, low bitterness. Nice one overall.

Tried from Bottle on 16 Jan 2017 at 15:13


7.2
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7

Keg at the brewery. A translucent golden yellow straw coloured pour with a lasting fine white head. Aroma is earthy oak, sweaty socks, birch. Apple. Flavour is composed of light cereal grains, tangy apple, mellow oak smoke, rauch malts. Straw. Palate. Is semi crisp, highish carbonation, drying finish. Nice. Mellow.

Tried on 04 Dec 2016 at 10:38


6.6
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6.5

Murky orange amber with a decent off white cap. Nose is beechwood, smoked malts, frazzles, light spice, lapsang Souchong, straw. Taste comprises smoked malts, fruit esters, biscuit malt, spice, lapsang souchong, oak. Medium bodied, fine carbonation, semi drying close with a smoky linger. Decent smoked affair, fairly full on but drinkable.

Tried on 23 Nov 2016 at 12:59