Dominion Blonde (Light)

Formerly brewed at Old Dominion Brewing Company (Coastal Brewing Co.)
Style: Golden Ale/Blond Ale
Dover, Delaware USA

Serve in English pint, Shaker

Light on flavor, light on body, light on aroma, and light on finish. Don’t let your wallet get any lighter when this beer is around.

Draught at Old Dominion Brewhouse, Washington DC
Blond color. Aroma is almost absent. The flavor is light but it presents at least light crispy character. Weak final.

Draft at Greenleafe tavern. Very pale gold pour with aroma and flavors of pale malt, slight hopcitrus, and slight honey. Watery and rather bland.

Draft at the brewpub, RBSG 2006. A light yellow beer with no head. The aroma is of corn - and quite weird and unpleasant - "light" beer aroma. The flavor is corn with plastic notes of hops, and a dry end - a very typical light beer flavor - and with a thin body.

Draught at Old Dominion for breakfast - RBSG DC 06 Pale yellow, no head or lacing. Nose of light malt and light fruit. See thin. It must have adjuncts. The flavor is lame, dry and slightly bitter. Finishes thin, watery. Light on calories and old style? wtf?

Draught only at the brewpub and select outlets. AKA Domion Light. This beer is Dominion Lager, but the grain bill calls for less malt, making it a lighter beer, but still a very tasty one. Dominion Light pours to a bright, golden color with a bright white head, and a good bit of carbonation. The nose on this beer is very nice with crisp pale malt aroma, and hints of grassy hop aroma. The palate is round and smooth, with crisp pale malt flavor on a clean body. Dominon Light finishes crisp and clean up front, then ends with a mild, grassy hop bitterness. An excellent session beer, one I enjoy as a "warm up" beer at the bar. Light beer isn’t my thing, but for a light beer? Good stuff.

Quite fresh and clean but, at the end of the day, it’s a light beer and there’s not really too much going on. Rather thin. If I didn’t know it was an ale, I’d have had it down as a pale lager. As Mike says, it made a good palate cleanser. On tap at the Dominion brewery.

Had this on draft at Dominion on 11/21/04. Yellow body. Nose is straw, grains, faint watery malt. Tastes like a better made BMC product; watery malt and grains. Thin bodied. Finishes the same. A weak effort from Dominion. It did serve one purpose though - we cleansed our palate with it between beers and food.