8 Days A Week
Southern Tier Brewing Company in Lakewood, New York, United States 🇺🇸
Golden / Blonde Ale Regular|
Score
6.14
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Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
Pours bright clear gold into a shaker. White head with little retention recedes to bubble rim. Corn aromas. Sweet with caramel and corn front to back. Dry finish. No off flavors... just tasteless and crushable.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6
Pours clear golden color with white head. Aromas of cereal malt, grass, and fruit. Cereal, grass, and apple/pear flavors. Light to medium body with average carbonation.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Draft pour at Taeji Sushi in Springfield VA. Poured a orange color with a medium sized white head. Aroma was light grassy notes, lemon, touch of malt. Flavor was clean, easy to drink malt, some very light citrus. Pleasant.
Drake (22940) reviewed 8 Days A Week from Southern Tier Brewing Company 6 years ago
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
12 ounce can from Woodman's Kenosha, 6/16/19. Hazy orange, thin head that fades quickly. Aroma of bready malt, dandelion, lemon. Taste is bready malt, orange, lemon. Medium bodied, well balanced. Decent.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 7
Can. Pours a pale straw yellow color with a giant fizzy white head and very good retention. Virtually no lacing. Streaming carbonation. Citrus and yeast aroma. Light citrus and grainy light yeast flavor. Crisp mouthfeel. Overall very generic and nondescript. Nothing bad, but I don't think this beer knows what it wants to be.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5
Fair, but in the end suffers from its fate as a blonde ale. Judged as a blonde ale, it pretty much hits the mark of the standard blonde ales, especially those that were all too ubiquitous at brewpubs from the late 90s to early 00s. So this one: slightly dark gold color, mild hop nose, clean light somewhat grainy malts, with too much bittering hop at the finish. Less bittering hop and more aroma hop and it would be almost a good kolsch, but it isn't that. It's drinkable enough, but nothing much makes me want to go back to it.
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Part of their Overpack'd 15-pack from Publix in Kissimmee, Florida. Pours a light golden-yellow colour with a foamy white cap, average stay and very light lace. Yeasty nose at first, but then the cereal grains come lightly out. The cereal grains show a slight more in the taste with a nice mildly dry finish from the hints of hops. A little crisp in the mouthfeel. Pretty decent for a blonde ale, without being exceptional.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
12 ounce can into pint glass, canned on 3/27/2018. Pours slightly hazy pale golden yellow color with a 2 finger fairly dense and fluffy white head with great retention, that reduces to a small cap that lingers. Nice spotty foamy lacing clings on the glass, with a fair amount of streaming carbonation. Aromas of lemon, orange, grapefruit, peach, pear, melon, red apple, citrus peel/zest, light pepper/pine, wheat, cracker, white bread dough, herbal, floral, grass, and yeast earthiness. A bit too fruity/yeasty aromas. Nice and pleasant aromas with good balance and complexity of pale/wheat malts; light-moderate citrus/earthy hops, and fruity yeast notes; with solid strength. Taste of lemon, orange, grapefruit, peach, pear, melon, red apple, citrus peel/zest, light pepper/pine, wheat, cracker, white bread dough, herbal, floral, grass, and yeast earthiness. Mild pine, zesty, herbal, floral, grassy, spicy bitterness on the finish. Lingering notes of lemon, orange, grapefruit, peach, pear, melon, red apple, citrus peel/zest, light pepper/pine, wheat, cracker, white bread dough, herbal, floral, grass, and yeast earthiness on the finish for a good bit. Very nice complexity, robustness, and balance of pale/wheat malts; light-moderate citrus/earthy hops, and fruity yeast flavors; with a solid malt/bitterness balance; and no cloying/astringent flavors after the finish. Fairly crisp/clean finishing. Lightly increasing dryness from lingering bitterness. Medium carbonation and light-medium body; with a very smooth, moderately bready/grainy, and lightly sticky mouthfeel that is great. Zero warming alcohol as expected of 4.8%. Overall this is a very nice American blonde ale. All around nice complexity, robustness, and balance of pale/wheat malts; light-moderate citrus/earthy hops, and fruity yeast flavors; very smooth, refreshing, and fairly crisp/clean to drink; with the mildly bitter/drying finish. Very flavorful and not watery for the ABV. Very clean pale/wheat malt showcase; with restrained fruity yeast, and solid Centennial hop presence/balance. A very enjoyable offering, and well made style example.
obguthr (12524) reviewed 8 Days A Week from Southern Tier Brewing Company 7 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Hay nose. Clear golden, medium head. Hay, lightly sweet malt. Light body, easy carbonation.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Bottle pour into taster cup at Craft Brew Race, Portland. Appearance is lightly hazy pale yellow with no discernible sparkle, ephemeral ring of white head. Aroma is floral/fruity (mild grape?). Taste is floral, malty, cardboard. Palate is light-to-medium bodied with thin, frothy texture, soft-to-flat carbonation with finish as taste. Overall, not much to it--pretty forgettable.