4.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 4
Flavor 4
Texture 4
Overall 3.5
Draught at LAX, 12/11/22. Eagerly anticipating this after reading Ernest's 1.6 review! Deep golden-maize, clear. Small, poorly retained, white head. Some sharp esters or other fermentation character. Crackery grains though I'm not getting DMS. Maybe a bit of glue, maybe some vanilla.... Grainy, cereal malt character, somewhat sharp, rather sour and quite macro-like. Odd they seem to be making good quality IPAs, but then put out this crap. Just needs more lagering and a bit better malt extraction; don't think there's anything too crazy wrong here otherwise.
Tried
on 11 Dec 2022
at 19:18
6.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 4
Overall 5
LAX draught, 12/11/22. Light haze, lemony-gild with spotty, white head. Very fruity American hopped nose. Not much malt depth, mostly just cracker. Some lemon and white bread. No booze, clean enough. Fruity, hoppy, moderately bitter with spice, pine and citrus. Malt depth very lacking with cracker and almost paper. Dry, but undermalted with an almost scratchy texture exacerbated by all this hop. But it's still passable as a hoppy pale ale, if you look at it that way.
Tried
from Can
on 11 Dec 2022
at 19:02
7.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
LAX draught, 12/8/22. Mostly clear golden-copper. No head. Rich cereal malt with cacao and light vanilla. Low lactose. Clean enough, though without much balancing the sweetness. Soft, malty, clean, cacao-forward with low vanilla and lactose. Some fruitiness. It's like the blonde stouts, just no real bitter element available to balance, though this is far from cloying or problematic. The cacao goes a long way. But yes, it's still pretty weird.
Tried
on 08 Dec 2022
at 22:54
7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
LAX draught, 12/8/22. Low haze, brass-copper. Small, white head. Kiwi, lychee, white wine...lovely. Really fresh and tropical with no resin, twang or any nonsense. No alcohol. Biscuit and cracker, sparse, but all the hop aromatics are bright and need no malt balance. White grape, gentle but appropriate bitterness and white bread like malts. Good balance, soft malt and good depth and attenuation. Green papaya, white wine and soft biscuit.
Tried
on 08 Dec 2022
at 22:45
7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Draught at LAX, 12/8/22. Heavily hazy, muted bronze. Small, off-white head, no retention. Juicy, tropical, quite estery with soft, bread and have bey-like malt. Not sharp or boozey. Soft, juicy, malty, clean. Wow. Impressed with random airport hazy dipa...tons of Citra, no resin or alcohol. Big maltiness and super soft texture is the highlight but it's still amply hopped and balanced. Hops are juicy and citrusy, not overly complex but no twang, onion, resin.
Tried
on 08 Dec 2022
at 22:32
5.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 4
Overall 5
Can. Clear light yellow beer with medium head. Citrusy, bit stale, bit too old too.
Tried
from Can
on 28 May 2022
at 12:15
5.4/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 5
Overall 5.5
Drat at Candle Cafe in Santa Monica. Pours a hazy straw gold with a finger of white foam that lingers. Light Belgian esters, some banana and wheat notes. Kinda watery on the palate. Refreshing, but muted. Meh.
Tried
from Draft
on 03 Apr 2022
at 01:48
6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6
12oz can at lunchtime on 14th February 2022 at my daughters place in Laguna Hills. Went well with my chicken salad roll. As the name suggests, this is a blonde coloured beer, the head a wispy white affair after an initial full covering. Weak nose, floral/grassy/citrussy/grainy, all very subtle. The taste is slightly sweet with a grainy base, not much hop action going on.
Tried
from Can
on 14 Feb 2022
at 20:36
6.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
US Pint can at my daughters in Laguna Hills on 29th January 2022. Hazy golden orange body, off-white head (in the clouds). Tropical fruits in the nose and taste, slightly sweeter than bitter or sour. Body depth a little thin for an 8.5% brew.
Tried
from Can
on 30 Jan 2022
at 16:53
6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Überraschend fruchtiges Blondes, in der Nase Fruchtpunsch, im Trunk ebenso, etwas Getreide, geht schon. Vielleicht etwas zu fruchtig.
Tried
on 05 Dec 2021
at 16:12