Blonde (GFB)
Green Flash Brewing Company in San Diego, California, United States 🇺🇸
Golden / Blonde Ale Regular|
Score
6.31
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Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Reviewed from notes.
Can to becher glass.
Appearance: clear golden color with a finger's worth of white foamy head which dissipated nicely to leave some light lace
Aroma: orange peel, honey and grassy hops with with a light caramel/toffee malt backbone
Flavor: blends the prior noted aromas to lead with the malts and honey as the orange peel and hops try to play with the balance but seems to fall a bit short; finishes grassy hoppy and honey
Texture: light to medium bodied, somewhat sessionable, light smoothness, some hop aggression
Overall: nothing that really impresses me, but something needs to be done to make this a bit more cohesive.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5
By approachable I guess they mean kind of watered down. Not bad, some grassy grain and I guess ok for the "post lawnmower serve cold" label bit pretty nondescript overall.
Sledutah (12396) reviewed Blonde (GFB) from Green Flash Brewing Company 7 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Can picked up at the state store. Pours clear light golden with a small off-white head, light lacing. Grainy, grass, pale malts and citrus zest. Ok
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Review notes from July, 2017. The pour comes out a deep gold, more visibly rich than the average lightly malted beer. The head is about a finger thick, somewhat dense and white. The nose brings up some of the base beer smell of a pilsener, a bit of hard water emphasizing some German noble hop character. That pils quality comes through in the taste, with more hoppiness, true, and also less sweetness than I sometimes get in a blonde ale. There's also just a trace of the estery note from a warm-fermenting ale. Overall, it has plenty of malt, balanced but more hops than you'd expect in a blonde ale. Worth matching to lighter roasted meats like chicken or pork, to semisoft cheeses and for before desert.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Kroger bottle. Clear gold, small white head. Aroma is green grasses, light floral notes, minor honey. Flavor is green grasses, honey, orange peel, wet paper. Smooth, a good amount of flavor for the style. Decent.
Ibrew2or3 (10834) reviewed Blonde (GFB) from Green Flash Brewing Company 8 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Tall boy can pours with a crystal clear pure gold body that supports a white head. The aroma offers up floral and spicy hops as well as a dash of lime and bready maltiness. The taste delivers plenty of floral hop nuanced creamed corn flowing into a pleasing spicy and floral hop bitterness. Into the finish a mild cracker maltiness is noticed. Pretty solid brew with snappy hoppiness that prevents the annoying sweetness that typically plagues this style. I can drink plenty more of this.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
18th Jan 2018, happy hour pint in Bar 1502, Ocean Beach, San Diego. The wife's choice, I had about a third of it as she liked it. Golden pour, off-white affair on top. The nose had hints of citrus fruits and fresh doughy bread. Taste had a semi-sweet maltiness and a citrus hop flavour which counteracted the malts sweetness.
superspak (10160) reviewed Blonde (GFB) from Green Flash Brewing Company 8 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
12 ounce bottle into pint glass, best before 10/25/2017. Pours slightly hazy medium golden yellow color with a 1-2 finger fairly dense and fluffy white head with good retention, that reduces to a small cap that lingers. Nice spotty soapy lacing clings on the glass, with a fair amount of streaming carbonation. Aromas of lemon, orange peel, cracker, white bread dough, lightly toasted biscuit, pepper, light pear/apple, and herbal/grassy earthiness. Nice and pleasant aromas with good balance of pale malt and light-moderate earthy hop notes; with solid strength. Taste of lemon, orange peel, cracker, white bread dough, lightly toasted biscuit, pepper, light pear/apple, and herbal/grassy earthiness. Light-moderate peppery, citrus peel, herbal, grassy bitterness on the finish. Lingering notes of lemon, orange peel, cracker, white bread dough, lightly toasted biscuit, pepper, light pear/apple, and herbal/grassy earthiness on the finish for a good bit. Very nice robustness and balance of pale malt and light-moderate earthy hop flavors; with a great malt/bitterness balance, and zero cloying/astringent flavors after the finish. Moderately crisp/clean finishing. Light-moderate increasing dryness from bitterness. Medium carbonation and body; with a very smooth and moderately bready/grainy/sticky balanced mouthfeel that is great. Zero warming alcohol as expected of 4.8%. Overall this is a very good American blonde ale. All around nice robustness and balance of pale malt and light-moderate earthy hop flavors; very smooth, crisp, clean, and refreshing to drink. Clean bready malts, nice earthy hop balance, and restrained fruity yeast character. A very enjoyable offering, and spot on style example.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Bottle from Crafty Bottle, Lincoln. Deep golden colour with an off white head. Aroma was fruit and light malts. taste light bitter to a dry finish. Medium body.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
On tap. Clear bright golden. Thin off white head Light pale malts rather sharp and a clean hop bite. A sassy Blonde, this.