Blonde
Alaskan Brewing Company in Juneau, Alaska, United States 🇺🇸
Golden / Blonde Ale Regular|
Score
6.63
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Alaskan Blonde Ale is a classic American blonde: easy-drinking and approachable, with low-to-moderate hops and malt and a delicately sweet, biscuity character.
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Rennat42 (5616) reviewed Blonde from Alaskan Brewing Company 6 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5
Bottle/Fest. A- Grains. A- Golden color, clear liquid, white head. T- Grains. P- Light body, average texture, average carbonation, bland finish. O- A light bodied no flavor blonde. Expected a touch more. Some citrus notes would be nice.
BoiseBrewBlog (9108) reviewed Blonde from Alaskan Brewing Company 6 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6.5
In tap at “HandleBar” Boise clear light golden with a thin fine white head. Light pale slightly sweet malt flavors and very modest hop character.
Drake (22934) reviewed Blonde from Alaskan Brewing Company 6 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
12 ounce bottle from Cellars, Neenah, 6/24/19. Slightly hazy amber, thin foamy white head, good retention. Aroma of bready malt, honey, hints of citrus. Taste is honey, toast, orange, lemon. Medium bodied. Nice.
nuplastikk (10473) reviewed Blonde from Alaskan Brewing Company 6 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
12oz bottle. Filtered orange-tan body. Foamy white head, fast rising, big carbonation bubbles. Pleasant sweet honey malt aroma. Medium bodied, leans into the malt tones nicely. Has a pleasant hop balance as well. Straightforward but well brewed. Good.
superspak (10160) reviewed Blonde from Alaskan Brewing Company 6 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5
12 ounce bottle into pint glass, best before 8/23/2019. Pours fairly crystal clear medium golden yellow color with a 1-2 finger fairly dense and fluffy white head with fantastic retention, that reduces to a nice cap that lasts. Thick foamy lacing clings on the glass, with a fair amount of streaming carbonation. Fantastic appearance. Aromas of big lemon, orange, honey, cracker, white bread dough, and toasted biscuit; with lighter notes of peach, pear, melon, red apple, herbal, floral, wood, grass, pepper, and yeast earthiness. Damn nice aromas with great balance of pale malts, honey, and light-moderate fruity yeast/earthy hop notes; with great strength. Taste of big lemon, orange, honey, cracker, white bread dough, and toasted biscuit; with lighter notes of peach, pear, melon, red apple, herbal, floral, wood, grass, pepper, and yeast earthiness. Light herbal, floral, woody, grassy, peppery bitterness on the finish. Lingering notes of lemon, orange, honey, cracker, white bread dough, toasted biscuit, peach, pear, melon, red apple, herbal, floral, wood, grass, pepper, and yeast earthiness on the finish for a good bit. Awesome robustness and balance of pale malts, honey, and light-moderate fruity yeast/earthy hop flavors; with a great malt/bitterness balance, and no cloying/astringent flavors after the finish. Fairly crisp/clean finishing. Light-moderate increasing dryness from lingering bitterness. Medium carbonation and light-medium body; with a very smooth, moderately creamy/bready/grainy, and fairly sticky mouthfeel that is fantastic. Zero warming alcohol as expected of 5%. Overall this is an outstanding blonde ale! All around awesome robustness and balance of pale malts, honey, and light-moderate fruity yeast/earthy hop flavors; very smooth, crisp, clean, and refreshing to drink with the mellowly bitter/drying finish; great soft feel. Very flavorful and not watery for the ABV. Awesome balance between clean/nicely rich pale malts and citrus/floral honey complexity; with solid earthy Nugget hop presence/balance, and restrained fruity yeast. Mild residual sweetness with crisp dryness. A highly enjoyable offering, and top tier quality style example. One of the best standard American Blondes I've had in a long time.
berkshirejohn (10223) reviewed Blonde from Alaskan Brewing Company 6 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5
[12oz bottle from Total Wines, Brea, CA.] Hard to believe I'm only the second person to rate this, I'm sure I've drunk it before in my pre-RB days. It's a straw coloured pour with a ring of white head; some yeast and grassy hops on the aroma; off-sweet taste with a grainy body, and a definite touch of honey; then a dry rather acrid finish. Certainly not the best honeyed blonde, but drinkable.
cheap (9533) reviewed Blonde from Alaskan Brewing Company 6 years ago
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
$1.50 bottle from vintage estates. Pour is clear pale with a thin head.Smell is somewhat like slag. Pretty good for an ale, well behaved and easy to get along with. A little of the slag aroma carries over to the taste. A short processed feel in the end. Over all, not bad. Hard t find the honey tho.