Hurricane Floating Car Golden Ale

Formerly brewed at Hurricane Brewing Company
Style: Golden Ale/Blond Ale
Mobile, Alabama USA

Serve in English pint, Shaker

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on tap-pours a dissipating off white head and yellow color with effervescence. Aroma is mild grain. Taste is grain-some sweet/caramel, slight hops then some musty/cardboard.

Name: Floating Car
Date: February 14, 2009
Mode: Draft
Source: Brewpub
Appearance: clear copper, off white head
Aroma: light malt aroma
Flavor: light malt flavor, touch of cereal, nice bready character, faint balancing bitterness
Aroma: 4/10; Appearance: 6/10; Flavor: 4/10; Palate: 6/10; Overall: 8/20
Rating: 2.2/5.0
Drinkability: 6/10
Score: *+/4

Nice golden colour. This has a honeyish sweetness and some pear esters. On the palate, it’s freshly cracked grain. It finishes with a late, light crispness.

Clear golden with small tan head and some lacing. Sweet honey-like mild aroma that is also fruity, with apple and pear. Medium carbonation. Light crisp and refreshing but on the sweet side with a sweet finish. A promising introduction to the lineup here.

Pours a clear straw color light bubbly head recedes quickly to nothing – no lacing. Aroma is pretty muted with some light grains and a faint light fruit sweetness. The taste is of toasted grains and light malts. The body is very thin and light carbonation. This is certainly not as offensive as some light lagers I’ve had and is pretty drinkable. Nothing groundbreaking and probably a decent way for most non-beer geeks to get started at a brewpub.

Draught. Pours clear dark yellow with a spare frothy white head, mostly diminishing, spare lacing. Aroma is average malt (grain, cereal), light hops (grass), average yeast (sweat) with notes of vegetable and dust. Light bodied, oily texture, soft carbonation and a bitter finish. Average duration, light sweetness, acidity and bitterness; husky grain malt flavor.