O’Hanlon’s Yellowhammer

Brewed by O’Hanlon’s
Style: Golden Ale/Blond Ale
Exeter, England

Serve in English pint, Shaker

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Cask at White Cross inn beer festival. Yellow gold with a decent white top. Nose is in ripe banana with a little peach. Incredibly light in the mouth with more banana flavours. Really pleasant and suppable. Finish mild and fruity.

Cask at the Prince Of Wales, Twickenham - 30/09/12. Clear pale yellow with a thin white cap. Pale malt on the nose, light caramel and floral tones. Taste follows, sweetish, and a little citrus. Medium bodied and carbonation. File under ’W’ for whelmed !

Great golden summer beer from Devon not at all bitter or fizzy and slips down a treat will get you a little drunk as well!

Bottle shared by drabmuh. Thanks Matt! Served in my new Cantillon tulip. Thanks again Matt! A: Hazy yellow hue with a thick, fluffy white head of just over an inch. The head fades to half an inch and leaves considerable lacing throughout the glass. S: The aroma consists of spices, floral scents, hops, yeast. It smells very nice. T: The taste is bready and floral, with the hop character being more subtle than the aroma indicated. This beer tastes quite fresh. It’s refreshing and light, with a healthy amount of complexity about it. M: Thin bodied, with a bitter hop presence in the finish. D: My first beer of this style, I rather enjoyed this. Serving type: bottle Reviewed on: 01-22-2011

Cask at The Cleveland Arms, London. Pours clear yellow with a fine, creamy white head. Tangy citrus nose with moderate, doughy malts. Light to medium sweet flavor with plenty of pleasantly tangy citrus, some lemon, tangerine and peach. Light bodied with fine carbonation. Medium sweet finish with faint, yeasty dough, lemon, white bread. Nice, easy drinker.

Cask @ The Pakenham Arms. Light golden yellow body with no head. The nose is honey, some raspberry and summery fruits. Sugary Custard, some sweet grain. The taste is sweet raspberry tart. Brioche maltiness, with a slightly oily maple syrup finish. The body’s light and easy. Quite decent and refreshing.

4.2% ABV in a brown 500ml bottle, best before 9th July 2010, drank 4th June 2010. Poured into my vase shaped pint (Old Speckled Hen badged) glass. This is a beer that is conditioned in the bottle and it was poured slowly to ensure it looked its best, without anything effecting its appearance. Dull golden colour, firm snowy white head on top, didn’t see any sediment leaving the bottle, there was a small covering in the base of the bottle. Lager type smell (meaning not much going on), a late addition of Cascade hops are supposed to give off an aroma, these failed at first. As the beer warmed in the glass the hops began to assert themselves in the smell. Crisp and refreshing taste, almost lagerish in its carbonisation feel and flavours. It is however an ale and a bitterness is never too far from the surface (First Gold along with the aforementioned Cascade). A summer beer and a good one to boot.

Cask, gravity flow @ The Double Locks Inn, Canal Banks, Exeter, Devon.
Produces a still, hazy, sunny amber with no head. The aroma is bold, poignant and bursting with ripe and tart fruit. Sweet guava, pineapple and lychee, a little honeydew nectar and bitter grapefruit, sour lemon and vine clippings, burdy nums. So clean, so fresh, sumptuous and all the same is the palate. Quite creamy in the mouth, well rounded and defined for taste. Sweet, sour, tangy, fresh, fruity, keeps the palate-a-flutter. Touch of rose water in back towards a peak of bitter, vinous and herbal hops. From there its all fruit esters again. Such a light finish, its presence is big yet it is just a delicate and unbelievably refreshing ale. And from gravity this was in fine form, and stagger out the Double Locks I did. Bloody good stuff!

Bottle - 500ml. Pale gold body with a thin white foamy head. Fresh hoppy aroma with flowery, honeyish, and piney hints. Well balanced malty/hoppy taste with a short bittersweet finish.

500ml bottle listed at 4.7%ABV poured a bright golden color with a modest white head which leaves some nice lacing behind. Aromas of grain and some floral hops. Taste is light malty sweetness and light hoppy bitter finish. Light to medium body with generous carbonation leaving a nice tingle on the tongue. A really nice blonde ale.