Redhook Slim Chance

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

Serve in English pint, Shaker

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Pours a pale golden color with a white head. Aroma is honey, grain, some toast, and fruity spicy hops. Flavor is honey, grain, toast, some fruit and a bitter spicy finish.

12 oz bottle, drunk straight from bottle. Aroma is mild malts, grains. Flavor is grains, slight sweetness, touch of hops. A pretty refreshing beer.

Tasted at the San Diego International Beer Festival. Clear yellow with a fizzy head. Faint malty aroma. Dry cereal grain taste.

2/26/09 From the bottle. Aroma is very light, bready, with no real sweetness or sourness. Appearance is clear yellow with almost no head. Flavor is clear bready with light sourness, a little bit of sweetness and citrus bittering. Mouthfeel is medium-low bodied with a low, slightly acidic tang. Overall, not as rich as the Redhook blonde, but quite similar to other blondes on the market.

Clear light gold, short lived wispy white head. Pale malt forward aroma, slight fruitiness. Reminds me of a cleaner Redhook Blonde. Dry wheat character, light body, finishes very clean. Hope this beer catches on, there’s a gaping void in the light category.

2009 Bottle - First rating of this enigma brew...pours golden yellow with no head...aroma is clean, yeasty grain, light malt...flavour is pretty decent considering this is diet beer...heavy wheat grain, heavy carbonation, not much bitterness, but a residual cereal quality...not my favorite beer by any means, but as far as these diet beers go, this is the least offensive one yet...

Flavor consists very much of cereal (corn pops), malty sweetness, corn. Alright for a light beer although a little overly sweet in finish

12 oz bottle into English pint. Aroma is a little spicy, a little sweet; floral. Pours pale golden with small head, decent lacing. After tasting, my first thought is: weird. I really don’t know quite what to make of it. It’s bland, that’s for sure, but there are no off-notes. A vast improvement over your average macro light lager, but, and here I want to use the word dull because it doesn’t do much of anything interesting to the taste buds...okay, where did my thought processes go? It’s a little salty, too. Carbonation is medium. I think it would make a great lawnmower beer--something you don’t have to think too much about, but will quench the thirst in the sweltering heat. It’s February, however. My lawnmower has a cape on right now and is hiding from the sun, so....I’m sure the score would be higher in the summer time is what I’m getting at. I think. The only other craft light beer I’ve ever had is Sam Adams Light, and I would much rather drink this, not for quality reasons, mind you, but because Sam Adams Light is too malty for my liking. My overall assessment is that this is interesting, yet dull. It’s a contradiction, I know, but I don’t know how else I can explain this strange beer.

Hazy pale amber, foamy white head and some lacing. Notes of citrus and sweetness, like cookie dough. Taste is a bit muted with a bitter finish. Crisp on the pallet and sessionable. Decent for a light beer.

Poured a golden color, aromas of malt, grain, hay, and grass, little citrus to it. Flavors are the same, ok beer overall, not my first choice from RedHook though.