Sanda Blonde
Fyne Ales in Cairndow, Argyll and Bute, Scotland 🏴
IPA Regular|
Score
6.50
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Sanda Blonde is a light golden IPA with aromas of grapefruit and passion fruit. Flavors of gooseberry and citrus fruits are prevalent with a good citrus and hop bitterness to making it a deliciously easy drinking IPA.
Trivia: Sanda gets its name from the Sanda lighthouse, located off the southern tip of the Mull of Kintyre in southwestern Scotland.
Trivia: Sanda gets its name from the Sanda lighthouse, located off the southern tip of the Mull of Kintyre in southwestern Scotland.
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330ml bottle May 2013. A cheeky tick as can't remember much about it.
Tried
from Bottle
from
Hippo Beers
on 20 Oct 2025
at 14:12
5.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Aroma of pale malt, some citrus, grain, soft hoppy notes. Flavour is light sweet with a moderate bitter finish. Didn’t get much Nelson, more of a noble hop profile, like you’re drinking an extra hoppy Lager. An okay beer, but not what the bottle label promises.
Tried
from Bottle
on 13 Feb 2025
at 05:04
6.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 7
Overall 7
Old rating - 330ml bottle, pours pale golden with a white head. Aromas & tastes of flora, grass, toffee, pine, citrus, hops & malt. Medium body. Light bitter finish
Tried
from Bottle
on 31 Jan 2025
at 04:21
7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Cask. Almost clear golden. Aroma is fruity juicy peach with some old mossy woody and some farm spicy touch. Very complex. Taste is sweet with alcoholic fruity peach and fine bubbled very light malty base. Not watery. Wood and juicy moss. Some floral notes. Complex. Edgy. Not obviously good but interesting enough.
Tried
from Cask
on 25 Aug 2021
at 20:27
6.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Draft. A pale golden beer with a lazing beige head. The aroma has notes of straw, hops, and malt. The flavor is sweet with notes of malt, hops, flowers, and straw, leading to a bitter finish
Tried
from Draft
on 25 Mar 2020
at 15:26
3.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 4
Flavor 2
Texture 4
Overall 1
Aus der Flasche im 2014-04 getrunken. Dieses Ale ist mir zu einseitig nur auf Hopfenbitterkeit betont. Das brauche ich nicht.
Tried
on 12 Jul 2019
at 17:30
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Bottle in Iveraray. Good aroma, dark yellow color. Thin white head. Taste is okay, a nice bitterness, but aftertaste a bit flat. Not a very good IPA as they call it on the bottle.
Tried
from Bottle
on 15 Aug 2017
at 12:16
6/10
Tried
on 18 Mar 2017
at 04:40
6.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 7
Bottle shared with Caesar @ Van Moll Brewpub. A bit hazy yellow orange color, average sized white to off-white head. Smell and taste malts, lightly hops, lightly bitter and lightly butter. Decent body, medium carbonation. Ok beer.
Tried
from Bottle
on 17 Mar 2017
at 13:24
7/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 8
Golden color with a creamy white head with good duration. Aroma has notes of citrus, resin hops and tangerine. Flavor has a good bitterness with fruity notes, mainly citrus, grapefruit and tangerine. Good bitterness in the final with a medium dry mouthfeel.
Tried
on 06 Jul 2015
at 14:11