Blonde (Cask)
(Batch of Blonde)
Isle of Arran Brewery in Isle of Arran, North Ayrshire, Scotland 🏴
Golden / Blonde Ale Regular|
Score
6.24
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Delicate floral hop aroma. A subtle, well balanced finish with good character. A pale golden beer, clear tasting, in a continental style.
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6.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Cask at GBBF 25. Clear gold. Frothy foamy white head. Aroma combines malts and grains and low key fruit. Flavourwise it has light fruit including citrus and a malty bready body. Light-medium bodied. Slick. Soft-fizzy carbonation. Long dry slightly astringent finish. Interesting enough gold.
Tried
on 08 Aug 2025
at 10:07
5.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
Hazed deep golden color with a fine white head. Malty, mild fruity and floral ale. Medium body and a soft to average carbonation. Ok balance between sweetness and bitterness. Decent ok blonde ale.
[Cask at Ormidale Hotel in Brodick - Isle of Arran, Scotland]
[Cask at Ormidale Hotel in Brodick - Isle of Arran, Scotland]
Tried
from Cask
on 04 Oct 2015
at 14:45
6.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Cask at the standing order. Pours clear golden amber, nose is floral, sweet toffee, taste is sweet, dry toffee, floral, chewy.
Tried
from Cask
on 20 Mar 2015
at 14:13
6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 5
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Cask at the White Lady jdw. Pours clear pale gold, thick white head. Not much on the nose, light fruit. Taste is light malt-sweet, bit thin. Ok.
Tried
from Cask
on 07 Aug 2014
at 00:03
5.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 8
Overall 5
Cask @ White LIon, Heptonstall. Clear gold with a smooth texture and a small creamy head. Has a floral aroma and taste.
Tried
from Cask
on 03 Jul 2014
at 11:10
6.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Cask (Centurion, Newcastle) - Golden in colour. Biscuity malt, lemon and a hint of tea in the aroma. Lemon, grapefruit and a faint hint of peach can be detected in the taste.
Tried
from Cask
on 26 Apr 2014
at 15:08
6.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Cask @ JDW Elgin [260213]
Golden amber, clear, fairly dense white head, some lacing
Aroma of mellow citrus hops, hint of lemon, touch of floral hops
Taste of soft citrus hops, soft pale fruits, dab of lemon, light pale caramel malts, quite decent
Palate - thin to medium body. Finish of light bitter citrus hop,, soft light sweet caramel malt, little dry cereal
Overall - Best of the Arran beers I’ve tried - quite OK
Golden amber, clear, fairly dense white head, some lacing
Aroma of mellow citrus hops, hint of lemon, touch of floral hops
Taste of soft citrus hops, soft pale fruits, dab of lemon, light pale caramel malts, quite decent
Palate - thin to medium body. Finish of light bitter citrus hop,, soft light sweet caramel malt, little dry cereal
Overall - Best of the Arran beers I’ve tried - quite OK
Tried
from Cask
on 04 Mar 2013
at 13:52
6.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Cask@GBBF2012. Yellowish golden colour, small white head. Aroma is malty, floral, wooden, herbal and mildly grassy. Flavour is caramel, toffee, some sweet floral and grassy notes. Balanced.
Tried
from Cask
on 19 Aug 2012
at 21:47
5.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
On tap @ Ghillie Dhu, Edinburgh. Pours golden with a decent head. The nose has pale malt, some honey and just a hint of fruit, perhaps apples. The taste has more of the same but the malt is definitely more prominent. The palate has a medium body and texture with a not quite clean finish. Overall, decent but not worth getting another.
Tried
from Draft
on 10 Jun 2012
at 13:58
6.3/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 7
Cask (handpump) @ Halfway House, 24 Fleshmarket Close, Edinburgh, Scotland EH1 1BX.Clear medium yellow orange color with a average, frothy to creamy, good lacing, mostly lasting, off-white to white head. Aroma is moderate malty, toasted, moderate hoppy, citrus. Flavor is moderate sweet and bitter with a average to long duration, citrus peel bitter, citrus sour - acidic notes. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft to flat. [20100205]
Tried
from Cask
on 08 Oct 2010
at 11:19