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Clearwater Brewery in Bideford, Devon, England 🏴
Golden / Blonde Ale Regular|
Score
6.20
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Golden, crisp and hoppy, a lovely nose of fresh cut apples and melon. Faint velvety bubble and a light biscuit taste with the most delicate of tannins.
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6.3/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 6.5
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Isle Of Wight Holiday Beer#53. Had this once before but it was skunky then. Good experience this time, golden, watery but ok, hoppy-sweet, easy. Gravity dispensed.
Tried
from Cask
at
The Ale House
on 09 Sep 2025
at 18:11
22/02/2011. COEUR DE LION, 17 Northumberland Place, BATH, Bath & North East Somerset, England (PUNCH)
Tried
on 19 Nov 2022
at 08:34
6.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 4
Overall 5.5
16/6/2022. Cask at the 30th East Anglian Beer & Cider Festival, Bury St Edmunds. Pours clear golden amber with minimal off-white bubbly head. Aroma of caramel, vanilla, malt, stewed fruit, slight butter notes. Medium sweetness, light to moderate bitterness and body. Oily and watery, prickly carbonation. Fair.
Tried
from Cask
on 19 Jul 2022
at 17:13
6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Cask thanks to Grumbo: Poured a hazy yellow bright, white head. Aroma is buttery, malty, fruity. Taste is malty grain, buttery, caramel, drying finish.
Tried
from Cask
on 17 Jun 2022
at 12:32
6.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
50cl bottle picked up at a local garden centre. Pale amber with a cream head and quite heavy carbonation; aroma of crisp green apples; soft biscuity taste, but quite gassy; lightly bitter, with a crisp refreshing finish. Not bad.
Tried
from Bottle
on 04 Dec 2015
at 06:08
6/10
Tried
on 08 Mar 2015
at 14:32
4.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 4
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 4.5
500ml bottle: BBE Jul 15. Poured into an ’Old Speckled Hen’ vase shaped pint glass at home during a ’random tasting afternoon’ with myself on 10th Jan 15. Dull, but clear golden body with a flat, thin white scummy head. Not a lot of an aroma, mild hop traces but nothing worthy of note. The taste was also light in nature with mini hop flavours, again not a lot going on. Refreshing enough with a tropical fruitness as it warmed a little in the glass. Fairly dry finish but overall a beer lacking in depth and flavour.
Tried
from Bottle
on 10 Jan 2015
at 09:07
5.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 5
Bottle @ Joes. Clear golden colour with a small off-white head. Smells sweet, caramel, toffee, butter, boterbabbelaar, butterscotch. Tastes sweet, caramel, butterscotch, butter. Thin body, soft carbo.
Tried
from Bottle
on 17 Sep 2014
at 12:32
6.3/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 7
Bottle @ home. Clear golden color, medium sized white head. Smell and taste malts, lightly hops, lightly bitter, lightly grains and a bit hay. Average body and carbonation.
Tried
from Bottle
on 03 Aug 2014
at 07:54
7.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7
bottle from Tuckers Maltings. Golden colour, white head. Tropical fruit in nose and flavour, shy hoppy finish. Delicious.
Tried
from Bottle
on 28 Dec 2013
at 14:39