Santorini Blonde
First Lomax - Volkan Beer in Santorini, South Aegean, Greece 🇬🇷
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5.53
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Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Old rating from 16-03-15 - 330ml bottle brought back from Santorini, poured at home, it's golden with a small white head. Aromas & tastes of citrus, lemon, honey, grain & sweet malt. Light to medium body. Light bitter finish. Enjoyable
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Clear yellow pour, tiny white head. Aroma of pale grains, some subtle floral hops abd grass. Sweet mouthfeel, soft spice. Low bitterness. Meh.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Bottle at Fava, Edinburgh. Pours clear yellow gold with a thin white head. Aromas of light lemon and honey. Taste is more of the same. Clean finish. Inoffensive.
Szeppp (7592) ticked Santorini Blonde from First Lomax - Volkan Beer 2 years ago
--- Beer merged from original tick of Santorini Blonde on 17 Jun 2023 at 20:26 - Score: 4
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5
330ml green bottle. Pours a clear pale gold with a medium, foamy, long lasting, off-white head that leaves soapy curtains of lace. Semi-sweet aroma of bready pale malt, honey and skunky hops. Sweet flavour of toasted grainy pale malt, honey, grass, faint lemon and spicy hops in a dry, mild bitter finish. Light body with a watery texture and average carbonation. Crushable. Pretty standard.
Kermis (23416) reviewed Santorini Blonde from First Lomax - Volkan Beer 4 years ago
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 4.5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 4.5
Pretty much clear golden with a white head. Aroma is really quite malty with some citrus behind. Flavour is above light sweet and bitter. Light bodied with moderate carbonation.
Alengrin (11609) reviewed Santorini Blonde from First Lomax - Volkan Beer 5 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5
Standard pale lager with adjunct flavouring of honey and citron (which is not lemon); another of these Volkan beers from Santorini, I had a 'black' version before but never this original blonde one. At a Greek restaurant in Hulst in the southern Netherlands. Egg-white, mousy, dense and thick but slowly collapsing head on a clear, deep 'old gold' coloured beer with olive-greenish tinge. Aroma a bit lightstruck at first (cat pee), but this fades quickly to make room for impressions of breakfast cereals, chewing gum, drying grass, cold cooked pasta, wet flour, popcorn, dried flowers (the honey I suppose) and a vague, distorted background note of old dried lemon peel (the citron?). Rounded, very slick, cereally body, no real fruitiness, sweetish with prickly carbonation (very minerally and even unpleasantly stinging), thinnish and corn-ish but not blandly grain-sweet, with that grassy, floral and dried-spicy citron and honey touches subtly altering the flavour a bit in the end. Remains a badly disguised bland pale lager in all respects, though, with only the faintest grassy hop bitterish touch in the finish. Granted, the honey and the citron do add very slight accents, but in a very dull, 'dead' kind of way - and all too subtle to really make a difference with the masses of pale lagers flooding the planet. That said, I had much worse pale lagers than this one, too.
Benzai (24515) reviewed Santorini Blonde from First Lomax - Volkan Beer 6 years ago
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 5.5 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Bottle [thnx Amal!] at home. Clear golden color, medium sized white head that diminishes fairly quickly. Aroma is quite faint. Don't get much other than a grainy maltiness. Flavor is malts, bitter malts, bitter. Decent body and average to medium carbonation. Quite ok.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 4
This lager poured a hazy, medium yellow colour with a creamy, bright white head. Nice lacing. Scents include honey, dough and a little corn. First swig was quite thin but flavourful. Tastes of corn syrup and club soda. Finish is lightly sweet with cornish flavours lingering.