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

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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.

Clear yellow ale. Very weak nose and flavor. Thin and watery with whispers of butterscotch, straw and cream. Very light-bodied with fizzy carbonation. Crisp, clean finish.

Crystal clear golden coloured body with a super-thin white head. Aroma of just about nothing, a small metallic twang-but thats it! Super-light-bodied; Very light maltiness and a small citrus nuance. Aftertaste super clean and super light. Overall, a good beer if you want not to taste anything! I sampled this on Draught at Old Dominion Brewery in Ashburn, Virginia on 30-December-2003.

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.

Light yellow color. Small head. I've seen and had better blondes then this. Light bodies. Some malt. Pretty watered down and smooth. Other than that, nothing much to speak of. On tap at the Brew Pub in Ashburn, VA.

Being a completist I got this with my flight of samples. Clear straw colored. Faint malt aroma. Thin watery body with typical "light" beer flavors. Hey I tried it, but I did not like it.

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.

Light piss yellow. Nose empty, bit sweet. Harsh, nasty flavor, foul, bready, and bitter in a bad way.

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