Brewbakers Surf City Blonde Ale

Brewed by Brewbakers Brewing Company
Style: Golden Ale/Blond Ale
Huntington Beach, California USA

Serve in English pint, Shaker

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(12 oz bottle) Brewbakers is quickly becoming my most despised brewery; Aside from crappy beers, a bomber of their Tex Mex exploded in my beer cellar recently and created a huge fucking mess; This is a cheap tasting beer resembles a mass produced American lager, but quite possibly, it's even worse; Mildly sweet maltiness is totally overrun by an unpleasant sourness that persists in a long finish; The nose is sour; This is a first: the palate has a sour sensation just by inhaling the beer before sipping it; Hazy pale yellow in color; Head retention is not applicable since there was no head to speak of on the pour, and you're left with a totally headless beer within a few seconds; Honestly, I was assuming the beer was skunked and soured, but based on the previous reviews here, apparently this is the way this beer is supposed to taste; I'm pissed off that a highly respected store like Hi Times would even carry this crap; This is a really bad beer all around, just plain horrible, and my first drain pour in quite awhile; What a way to cap off a golden/blonde beer tasting, goddammit!

Not a strong flavor – mild, very very mild – much like typical American ale. It is crisp but not simpal supar or anything of the sort. Nice foaminess and well carbonated bubbly beer but still does not make me want to break out the Louis Prima and enjoy the sensual butt cheek that should accompany all beer of special nature. I am sorry but this is just a very average beer and for me…is much like beer to drink for lack of other fine beer availability.

On tap at the Visalia location. Pours clear light golden with a thin white head and a banana aroma. There is a thin malt flavor with no hop bitterness. Pretty bland.

12oz bottle-A golden body with a small head and an aroma of sourness and nothing. Taste of the same with more nastiness. Just bad.

Bottle. A golden color although slightly darker than I would have expected. An ice floral aroma with some candy. Smoth and light with an oily palate. Rating from 2005 notes.

This is the 2nd beer that I had carried back from California. I had this after a ABT/Quadrupel with 10% alcohol, so my taste buds were still in shock. This beer was very inoffensive and it went down easy. I like a little lemon in my Blondes and a small amount of hops in the body made it enjoyable.

This one we had after sipping some heavier beers so that might not have been the right way to go. Lemony aroma, very pale yellow with minimal head. Mild hoppy palate. Inoffensive. PS thanks Ron for sharing this with me!

What the hell, am I drinking coors light in a masked bottle? kept the head longer, but had a small afterbite... can you say stick your tongue out?

Pale yellowy, slightly hazed hue, decent head formation. Malt and grain aroma with a touch of sourness. Palate is initially sweet but quickly turns bitter with a slight bite in the second half. Lingering sourness in the aftertaste. Seems OK at first but then the more you drink it the worse it gets.

Hmmm. Should be categorized as "Blande Blonde", perhaps. Well-bittered and some citrus notes. Fairly crisp. Decent and brewed by a micro in CA that's relatively untested by RateBeerians thus far. This Surf City Blonde Ale suffers the unfortunate that I'm rating it on the heels of a Weltenburg Kloster Urtyp Hell, which was delicious!