Bank Top Blonde

Brewed by Bank Top
Style: Golden Ale/Blond Ale
Bolton, England

Serve in English pint, Shaker

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Cask. Golden colour, not much head. Aroma is very sour fruits, wood and crap. Flavour is grass, hops and some mild notes of hay.

Tasted this in the Three Judges, Glasgow in January 2012. Cask, handpump dispense. Crystal clear pale amber in colour with a thin white head. Short wheaty note in the short cereal aroma. Thin resiny mouthfeel and decent lacing. Pale malt gives a dry digestive biscuit base. Dry dusty hop resins give a long bitter aftertaste with a strong astringency. Finish is very dry and bitter with hop resins present in the palate. An ok session bitter if you like them very dry. Not my cup of tea though.

On cask at Cloisters. Pours a golden colour with a thin white head. Aroma of orange, barley and caramel. Similar flavours with some pine. Nicely bitter with an oily mouth-feel. Mild carbonation and a nice orange linger.

Pale yellowy amber, medium white head fades to nothing. grassy light lemon nose. caramel honey juicy fruit front, quite sweet but then suddenly dry bitter linger. I like this.

Cask gravity, Cov 2011. Orange gold with a fast-dispersing bubbled top. Bilious, lightly resinous aroma with a glaze of beeswax.. Soapy bittering hop, orange peel hints- it’s more the seawater and rich tea biscuit character that shines through than the NZ stuff. Cream and biscuit linger. Very disappointing.

Cask Handpump at the GBBF Earl’s Court, London 09/08/2008 Hoppy aroma. Clear golden coloured and hoppy with a little roast malt flavour in a crisp dry and bitter finish.

Yellow with a small white head. Weak malty aroma with grassy hops. Dry and malty flavour some grassy hop flavour and a bitter finish

Cask gravity at 1st K&ES Railway BF 2009. Clear amber, very lasting off white head. Great condition. Pretty drinkable. Some nuttiness on finish. Not flashy but very good for what it is.

Cask in the new wheat sheaf. Alround rating: Honey sweetness, nutty almond character, sweet and unbalanced blonde, im not gettign any hops.

Cask at bow bar ... light yellow ... sweet fruity nose ... soft frutiy hop ... juicy ... light dry linger ... little caramel malt ..cant place it but i like it..

Cask @ Freshfield Hotel Formby. I appear to be drinking a completely different beer to the other posters . This is a straw coloured ale with quite a substantial head. Sweet on the palate followed by a bitter kick on the swallow. A very palatable & drinkable beder drinking below it’s abv.