Strawberry Blonde
Spoetzl Brewery (Shiner) in Shiner, Texas, United States 🇺🇸
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Score
6.06
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Our newest Brewer’s Pride craft brew is now in season. Made with fresh, homegrown strawberries from Poteet, Texas, Strawberry Blonde combines pale and wheat malts for a refreshing taste and smooth finish. Summer just got sweeter.
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5.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 4.5
From tap. Pours clear and golden yellow, small white head. Aroma is sweet strawberry fruity. Medium dry, solid fruity to perfumed. Strawberry and flat finish.
Tried
from Draft
on 06 Apr 2017
at 11:46
5.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 4
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
Bottle: Clear, deep gold with a small white head. Very strong candy strawberry aroma. Taste is watery strawberry, grain malt. The scent is much better than the flavour. Grows a little bitter.....straw/grassy finish.
Tried
from Bottle
on 20 Nov 2016
at 15:35
6.3/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Bottle. Fresh strawberry, biscuit malt, and straw aroma. Golden yellow with small head. Mildly sweet strawberry, biscuit malt, and mildly bitter straw flavor. Decent body. Surprisingly not bad.
Tried
from Bottle
on 11 Nov 2016
at 22:56
5.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 5
Texture 4
Overall 6
Bottle: Poured a golden with white head. Aroma is fruit strawberry. Taste was nice grain and light strawberry.
Tried
from Bottle
on 08 Nov 2016
at 14:24
5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 4
Overall 5
12 ounce bottle, 6/4/16. Clear golden with a large foamy white head. Poor retention. Aroma of candy strawberry and a bit of wheat. The taste is sweet and slightly artificial strawberry, wheaty pale malt. Thin. They say this is the brewer’s PRIDE? Brewer needs to get some new priorities.
Tried
from Bottle
on 04 Nov 2016
at 12:53
6/10
Tried
on 16 Oct 2016
at 14:39
5.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 5
Texture 4
Overall 5.5
Slightly hazy ruby tinted straw coloured body with a honey glow and a light ruby tint, all with a small, single centimetre tall off-white head. Aroma of strawberries (what else), some light grain, a touch of malt, a lot of sweetness from unfinished caster sugar and a bit of grass. Light to Medium-bodied; Strong strawberry and fruit flavours with a lot of grass and dryness with some very light hop flavours and a decent amount of sweetness on the end. Aftertaste shows the dry malt, a touch of cereal and funkyness along with a bit of sweetness from the strawberries and other fruit. Overall, a decent beer at best with a lot of strawberry flavours, some light malt and a hint of funk near the end. I sampled this twelve ounce bottle pulled from a twelve pack sampler after a hockey game in Arlington (Ballston), Virginia on 07-October-2015.
Tried
from Bottle
on 26 Sep 2016
at 09:19
6.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
The bottle offers a nice whiff of strawberry juice right under the cap. It pours a slightly rosy body under a very fizzy head that settles down like a soda pop. The taste, though, points up a problem I have had with any "Strawberry Blonde" beer, going back to the one from Pete’s Wicked Ale. That is, that strawberry flavors seem to need to stand on their own, and don’t always play well with beer malts. This beer works around the issue by, it seems, keeping the hop load low, and perhaps using a lighter malt bill so that it finishes drier, to avoid too much sweetness. It’s still kind of hard to work the two tastes together on the palate until after the first couple of sips, but then it can work well in combination.
Tried
from Bottle
on 18 Jun 2016
at 23:40
7/10
Very light and refreshing with lots of strawberry notes.
Tried
on 03 Jun 2016
at 12:04
5.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 6
Sampled on draft at the Rivertowne Pub this beer poured a hazy yellow-gold color with a medium sized foamy white head that faded quickly and left no lacing. The aroma was sweet artificial sugar and artificial strawberries. The flavor was yeasty, and tangy with a strawberry note and artificial sugar. Medium length finish. Medium body.
Tried
from Draft
on 17 Sep 2015
at 22:04