Redhook Blonde Ale

Brewed by Redhook Brewery
Style: Golden Ale/Blond Ale
Woodinville, Washington USA

Serve in English pint, Shaker

Pours deep gold with frothy white head and foamy lacing. Notes of wheat and citrus. Well balanced taste with a slight hint of hops in the finish. Crisp and sessionable.

"a little citrus atop a straw colored not doing much beer. pretty much what i’d expect from the style and the brewer, but hey...it was free. watcha gonna do."

Pours hazy yellow with white head, aroma of a touch of esters, grassy hops, straw. Taste is some light fruit, grass, sweet pils malt, slightly dry finish. Not bad, but nothing really good about it.

Pours a lightly hazy golden with a white head. Aroma is very light malt. Flavor is sweet malt , grassy, straw, little bitter in the finish.

Pours a pale straw yellow, nose is herbal and grainy, taste is grainy with a hint of floral hops.

(12 ounce bottle - pint glass) yellow color with half finger size head. For little head there is it retents well, better than decent lacing. Aroma is faint and possibly of wheat and barley malt. Tastes of medium bitterness and light sweetness. Flat carbonation and thin texture.

Hazy golden beer with a small white head. Nice lacing effects, no real aroma here, mainly whiffs of caramel. The taste is bland, some caramel, hints of citrus/wheat. It was refreshing, high carbonation. Goes down smooth, but this was pretty boring.

12 oz bottle into English pint. Two blonde ales back to back--how exciting! That is sarcasm you hear in my words. Nose is pretty bland, but there’s some pineapple and Granny Smith apple aromas present. Hazy gold appearance with a small head full of big bubbles that dissipates very quick. Compared to the Beach Bum I had before this, this one is definitely not as pretty to look at. Not as tasty, either. Beach Bum stood out from the blonde ale crowd; this one fits right in. There is absolutely nothing interesting to distinguish this from the scores of blonde ales out there. Extremely boring. Very drinkable if you’re in a sessionable non-thinking mood, however. Taste is bittersweet (bitterness is slight; sweetness is more apparent). Finish is a bit salty. But it seems almost all Redhook beers are salty. What’s up with that anyway? Carbonation is high; body is light. Kind of watery. So Beach Bum wins in this blonde ale comparison.