Blonde
Innis & Gunn Brewing Co. in Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland 🏴
Brewed at/by: BelhavenGolden / Blonde Ale Regular Out of Production
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Score
5.89
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6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Smells oaky with some nice peachiness to it. Lots of caramel, a little honey and vanilla. Pours golden clear. Smells pretty good actually - probably a little underrated due to macro status. A little bitter. Decent. Bottle
Tried
from Bottle
on 19 Oct 2012
at 12:09
5.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 4
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 5
Bottled (From Beers Of Europe). Golden colour, small white head. Aroma is grains, rubbery, mild vanilla and mild malts. Flavour is rubber, some earth and mild cellary notes. Also has some slight whisky cask and vanilla in the flavour, but way too mild.
Tried
from Bottle
on 06 Sep 2012
at 10:01
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Tried
on 05 Aug 2012
at 14:15
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
330ml bottle. Clear deep golden colour with small macropore white head. Malty aroma with explicit oak flavour. Taste is caramel malty, oak / vanilla is a bit more decent than in other Innis & Gunn brews, but still typically present, adding a woody dry note, therefore narrowing the taste in a way. Nevertheless there’s room for a slightly hoppy finish.
Tried
from Bottle
on 18 May 2012
at 10:47
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7
Clear bottle, 330ml. Best before 04 Dec 2008, drank on 23 Aug 2008. Poured well chilled, into a Westmalle Trappist Chalice glass. Pale, very pale in colour. The head fell away to a wisp covering far too quickly for me. The aroma was weaker than I expected, there is an Oak feel to it and a caramel/toffee sweetness which arrives as the beer warmed. A tangy bitter sweet flavour which I found interesting and pleasant. Not your normal English Pale Ale that’s for sure, well it is brewed in Scotland so why should it be? The 6% is well hidden and the beer could almost be discribed as watery, but not quite. The flavours do stay, with the sweetness hanging around longer than the bitterness. Not bad, but nothing special either.
Tried
from Bottle
on 14 May 2012
at 05:17
5.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 4
Overall 5.5
Prune juice brown with a thin tan head. Roasty/smokey notes with some caramel and not too overpoweringly sweet.
Tried
on 12 May 2012
at 01:25
5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 4
Flavor 4
Texture 6
Overall 6
Bottle from ASDA in Hamilton cons 2012-04-17 Uddingston AR: citrus/lime fruit juice, dust, pilzner AP: golden copper, wee frothy head F. vanilla, thin watery, hops, fizzy
Tried
from Bottle
on 17 Apr 2012
at 16:49
5.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
Disappointing compared to some of their aged oak efforts, but is sweet and looks nice.
Tried
on 10 Apr 2012
at 16:06
3.4/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 4
Flavor 3
Texture 4
Overall 2.5
Crappy head, heavily carbonated gold body. Soft skunkweed aroma with some hops. Flavour is a sour mix of oak esters and hops, like sucking on a sugar-coated plant. Wow - this is totally wrong. The blonde beer does not sit well at all with the oak aging. If I was a grazing animal I’d like this, but even as an herbal beer it just doesn’t seem right.
Tried
on 31 Jan 2012
at 14:40
5.4/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 4
Overall 5.5
Bottle at home. Golden dark hay-coloured with a small off-white head. Fruity aromas with vanilla. Richer than expected with sweet flavours of vanilla and some grass. Light to medium bitterness that last. Watery and silky mouthfeel. Overall an okay taste, but a bit boring.
Tried
from Bottle
on 10 Jan 2012
at 13:47