Shenandoah Blonde Ale

Formerly brewed at Shenandoah Brewing Company
Style: Golden Ale/Blond Ale
Alexandria, Virginia USA

Serve in English pint, Shaker

Bottle: Deep golden orange, fairly clear, with a medium white head. I glance in the bottle to see that once again, it’s another bottled conditioned beer from Shenandoah! I hope they keep doing this with their beers. Aroma is light, but very nice - light orange, sweet pale and medium malts, a hint of biscuit, yeast, banana, clove, and mild flowery hops. The body is excellent - light-medium bodied, moderate yet spritzy carbonation, and a kind of watery-creamy mouthfeel. Taste is spicy hops, sweet malts, apple, banana, light lemon, slight yeast, and a hint of fruity alcohol hidden well. Finishes a bit watery with spicy/floral hop notes on the tongue as well as a slight cardboard/medicine taste (not terrible, but not good).

Deeep golden in color with a small head. Smells like a combo of bread and wet newspaper. Taste, oh God the taste: funky! Has a nail-polish-remover-like flavor, with a slight sweetness (maybe it’s the nailpolish the remover took off). Yuck.