Samuel Adams Blonde Ale

Brewed by Boston Beer Company
Style: Belgian Strong Ale
Boston, Massachusetts USA

Serve in Trappist glass, Tulip, Tumbler

A disappointing beer. Similar to the Sam Adams IPA (which tastes more like a pale ale)

Secret sampling after begging for 2 hours. Thanks Bill. Hazy yellow pour with a big candy sugar aroma. Sweet malt taste with notes of pepper, spices and bread. A good beer. Bill said this was going to a special BF, but he didn’t say which one.

Sweet smelling. Gold color (obviously). Sweet golden with a light spiciness.

Draught at BCTC. Pours golden with a small white head. Nose of candied sugars, alcohol, orange rind. Flavor is sweet, fruity and alcoholic. Dumparoo!

Bottle. This was just too much. Body pours a light golden with a tall tight white head. Aroma of sugar and lots of it. Flavors of cotton candy, skittles and cinnamon raisin bread, toasted. Really nearly undrinkable. Pallate is hot and thin and the burn gets worse and worse as the beer warms.

(Draught) Pours a clear golden body with a small white head. Aroma of candi sugar, florals, grass, and light herbs. Flavor of candi sugar, hops (grassy, herbal, earthy), and light spices with a dry finish.

UPDATED: FEB 4, 2010 BBF 08. Nice light golden with some haziness and a nice fluffy lasting white head. Aroma is spicy phenolic light lemony and vanilly phenols, some citrus, earth and a slight sweet alcholic burn. Flavor is also sugary burn from the high alcohol but the malts try to keep up light doughy breadiness from the pils malt, more spicy earthy phenolics good clean hoppiness and a surpisingly dry finish.

Sample @ BBF ’08, Boston. Pours a hazy yellowish-orange with a white head. Aroma is candy sugar, herbs and slight spice. Taste was very sweet, with fruit notes also detectable. Not a bad try at the style from Sam Adams.