Stone Cat Blonde

Brewed by Mercury Brewing and Distribution
Style: Golden Ale/Blond Ale
Ipswich, Massachusetts USA

Straw gold pour with creamy white head and lace. Very light malt and medium papery aroma. Medium semi sweet malt with a decent light/medium bitter. Not bad but not special.

12oz bottle-pours a dissipating white head and hazy yellow/gold color. Aroma is light malt, hint of hops. Taste is light malt-some sweet, some hops bite. Easy.

Big, fluffy head; recedes with a center dome. Cloudy, but solid gold color. Nice soft floral hop aroma. Attractive in a mild way. Slightly sour which is distracting. Otherwise, this is a pleasant, if soft, beer with a light malt flavor. Good hop balance. A touch of fruitiness. Rich body for the style.

Another beer with a different look, a different name, and yet tastes the same as the rest of the bad pee hops used in the other beers. All metallic.

December 2008 Beer of the Month Club

Overall Impression: This was a nice smooth Blonde Ale, not too unique, but it drinks well

Beer of the month club, Jan. Just all kinds of things going on with this beer, and not in a good way. Plenty of bizarre flavors, metallic, etc. This beer, and pretty much the whole style, is skippable.

Opaque straw with light white head. Sweet straw and citrussy orange and grapefruit aroma. LIght, crisp citrussy bite at the tip of the tongue. Very lightly roasted malt with a little sweetness and a light hop bite. The taste lasts with a bit of the sweetnes and a hop bitterness along the middle of the tongue. A nice session beer. The tasts is nothing special, but the flavor is nice enough to have a few and not get bored with it.

A cloudy, dark gold pourwith a large, tight bubbled, pure white head. The flavor was much lighter than the dark color would imply. The hops also had a light touch. It goes down quickly, a good session beer. The head held up well. Not much of an aftertaste.