Oak Pond Dooryard Ale

Brewed by Oak Pond Brewery
Style: Golden Ale/Blond Ale
Skowhegan, Maine USA

Serve in English pint, Shaker

Bottle at ChrisOs ’Blue Ridge Mountains Of Virginia’ tasting. Gold, slight haze. Thin white head. Bitof odd plastic. Not a good beer to be honest, pretty awful

22nd May 2010. ChrisOs ’Blue Ridge Mountains Of Virginia’ tasting! Hazy gold beer, short lived white head. Sweet malt - diacetyl nose. Tastes exactly the same. Sweet lagerish dogs breakfast. Tiny bit of fruit in the finish.

Bottle 22fl.oz. @ chrisos Back In The UK Tasting.

Clear medium yellow - orange color with a average, frothy, good lacing, mostly lasting, off-white to white head. Aroma is moderate malty, toasted - caramel, toffee, butter, butterscotch, diacityl. Flavor is moderate sweet and moderate to heavy acrid bitter with a average to long duration. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft. [20100522]

bottle at Chris-O ... light amber .... thin white head ... sweet butter lemon hop nose ...lemon musty buttter scotch

Bouteille de 22 oz achetée chez Canaan Superette (Canaan, ME). Arôme: Odeur de popcorn au beurre qui cache tout le reste. Apparence: La couleur est blonde légèrement voilée. Présence d’un mince col mousseux et d’une fine dentelle sur le verre. Saveur: Goût de céréales avec une pointe de beurre. Durée moyenne de l’arrière goût. Palette: Le corps est moyen avec une texture huileuse. Faible effervescence en bouche. Légère présence de céréales en arrière goût. (Rating #2747)

My Bottom Line:
This crisp Golden Ale’s citrusy fruitiness and pleasant wooden hop bitterness are bothered by overeager diacetyl, making me shy away from what would have been a very drinkable example of the style.

Further Personal Perceptions:
-A veil of foam covers the misty yellow. This is a successful presentation.
-The buttered popcorn component is present throughout. A real shame.
-The body is lean and the bubbling quite tight, making an engaging mouthfeel for sessioning.
-Malts are somewhat pleasant, but their flavors are mostly covered in that vile diacetyl.

Bottle.

Keg. Pours a burnt orange color with small white head. Nose is grainy with light honey essences. Palate is thin to medium. Flavor is lightly sweet honey with some graininess and a bit of biscuit.

this beer is a standard light ale but what draws me to it is the fact that it is brewed in the town of my birth Skowhegan, Maine. please support your local brewery and when in maine support my local brewery!!!