RateBeer
   Home Sign Up or Login Advanced Search
   People Ratings Events Places Forums Shop Magazine
      Top By Category  RateBeer Best  Latest Ratings  Top 50    

Home > Brewers > California > Kern River Brewing >

Kern River Isabella Blonde


 Percentile 
26
overall
A Golden Ale/Blond Ale brewed by
Kern River Brewing

Kernville, California USA

bottled
available

on tap
unknown

distribution
unknown

Add Distribution Data
Send Corrections

 Ratings  Average  Score  ABV  Style Pctl  Serve in  Advanced 
192.74/5.02.74/5.04.5%31.1 English pint, Shaker P  Stats

Commercial Description:
“Not Just any Blonde” The Kern River flows into Lake Isabella less then one mile south of Kernville, Ca. This Blonde Ale has an easy malt body and a mild hop aroma produced by traditional English hops. The light straw color and crisp finish make this an easy drinking beer that’s great for those hot summer days. If you are looking for great taste and good times, don’t settle for just any blonde, choose Isabella Blonde!

Most RecentTop RatersHighest Ratings Who's Rated This?
 beerguy101 (3433), Newark, California, USA
2.5 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
5/103/55/102/510/20

May 2, 2008  
Tasted at the February Northern California Beer Tasting. This blonde ale pours a medium yellow gold color from a 22oz bottle. Small to medium sized white foamy head. The aroma is grassy and a touch floral. A light to medium bodied blonde ale. It really is a lawn mover beer, not a lot of flavor and unfortunately not a lot of carbonation. It is your prototypical brewpub blonde, slightly sweet and a touch grassy without a lot of hoppiness. Mouthfeel is a touch thin. Finish is crisp and clean. Aftertaste is slightly bitter.

 pint_size (1004), Austin, Texas, USA
2.2 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
5/103/55/101/58/20
Jul 12, 2008  
6-25-08 bottle
This must be infected - because it all around just isn’t "right". Foggy orange yellow with a nice head. Smell is chalky sweet dust with a weird tartness in there. Flavor is overpowered by the insanely carbonated palate. Not good.


 lb4lb (1310), Austin, Texas, USA
1.9 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
5/102/54/101/57/20
Jun 30, 2008  
Bonus bottle courtesy of Odeed. Thanks!
Pours all head and almost zero beer and there is something clearly wrong. Smell is tart and honey like malt. Taste is, well, I can’t taste anything because what little isn’t already head, turns into foam the second it hits my mouth. Incredibly overcarbonated, but seems like it would have been a nice blonde otherwise.


 mcbackus (587), Merritt Island, Florida, USA
2.6 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
5/103/54/102/512/20
Jun 28, 2008  
bottle from irishboy: pours with a slight haze that is a golden colour with lots of tiney bubbles. the head is a big white and foamy. aroama is very lite not much to it at all, slight sweet malt and some cereal grains. flavour is a grainy with very littel hops and malt.


 hopdog (4482), Lansdale, Pennsylvania, USA
2.6 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
5/103/54/103/511/20
May 26, 2008  
22oz bottle acquired in trade with odeed (thanks!). Poured a medium golden color with a small sized whit head. Aromas of grains and wet hay. Almoast wheaty. Tastes of grains with a trade of citrus. Thinner body.




WOULD YOU LIKE TO READ MORE RATINGS?
Then join us! RateBeer is made by beer enthusiasts for the craft beer community. Your basic membership is free and allows you to read all beer ratings.

Desired User Name
*
Valid Email (Needed to verify your account)
*
Relax. RateBeer is 100%, guaranteed spam-free. That's our promise to you.

I agree to the terms of the RateBeer User Agreement

RATE THIS BEER

Aroma

rating assistance

Appearance

rating assistance

Flavor

rating assistance

Palate

rating assistance

Overall impression

rating assistance

TOTAL SCORE

Comments

More Golden Ale/Blond Ales

Crouch Vale Brewers Gold Extra (3.98)

Crouch Vale Amarillo (3.77)

Clay Pipe Blue Tractor Ale (3.74)

Crouch Vale Brewers Gold (3.68)

Oakham Haka (3.65)

Hopfenstark Ostalgia Blonde (3.64)

Pictish Amarillo (3.63)

Le-Brewery Norman Gold (3.61)

Dock Street Gold Stock Ale (3.61)

McNeills Blonde Bombshell (3.6)

More California Brewers

Bonnema Brewing Co.
  Atascadero
Fitzpatrick Winery
  Fair Play
Indian Wells Brewing
  Inyokern
Downtown Brewing (formerly SLO Brewing Co)
  San Luis Obispo
Omaha Jacks Steakhouse & Brewery
  Rancho Cucamonga
Redwood Coast Brewing Company
  Mountain View
Jupiter
  Berkeley
Anderson Valley Brewing Company
  Boonville
Pacific Beach Ale House
  San Diego
Drakes Brewing Company
  San Leandro
Tuscan Brewing Company
  Red Bluff
Happy Valley Brewing Co
  Somerset
Mount Tallac Brewing Company
  South Lake Tahoe
Mendocino Brewing Company
  Hopland
Island Brewing
  Carpinteria

About RateBeer | Add A Beer | Add A Brewer | Edit Personal Info | 100 Beer Club | FAQ | Log out | Feedback? | Copyright 2000-2008, RateBeer LLC