The Lost Abbey Inferno (8.5%)
This is nothing to be scared of. After all, it’s only beer. But when you’ve read about something and waited for it to enter your life, things can get a little bit weird. I’ve wanted to try Lost Abbey...
View ArticleWild Card Brewery King Of Hearts (4.5%)
I’ve never before had a beer that smells of sea water and petroleum before. It reminds me a little of the outflow pipes at Swanpool, just a short walk up the coast from Gyllyngvase Beach that I’d pass...
View ArticleMoor Beer Co. Radiance (5.2%)
What a stunningly good beer this is. Calling itself both a Golden Ale and a Blonde, I’d err on the Blonde side as Radiance has all the crisp lightness of touch of a really good Blonde beer and none of...
View ArticleWindswept Brewing Co. Blonde (4%)
Windswept’s Blonde is a decent if slightly weird beer. Pouring a pale gold, the aroma is an odd blend of peaches and fag ash. Not in a particularly unpleasant way, it’s all rather fresh smelling, but...
View ArticleThe London Beer Factory Chelsea Blonde (4.3%)
Pouring a shiny gold, the aroma of this Blonde Beer is orchard fruits and lemon zest, which is quite a nice thing to smell of. There’s a hay bale, honey, waffle and caramel malt and some lemon and...
View ArticleBrehon Brewhouse Blonde (4.3%)
This isn’t half yeasty. I mean, really yeasty. Though that said, I don’t really mind the yeastiness of it, it gives it a slightly Belgian Golden Ale feel. Pouring a pale gold with a foamy white head,...
View ArticleBrasserie De La Senne Session 4 (4%)
Brewed in collaboration with Brew By Numbers, this is a decent little Blonde Beer. It pours a pale yellow with a foamy head and smells of strawberries, hay bales and lemon juice. The malting is super...
View ArticleAnarchy Brew Co. Up In Smoke (3%)
A smoked blonde table beer is a very nice idea, the smoke adding extra depth to the beer’s body and in so doing filling in the spaces that are apparent in so many low alcohol beers. Up In Smoke pours …...
View ArticleThe Lost Abbey Devotion (6.25%)
What a beautiful beer this is, especially sitting outside in the early evening sun, bees buzzing and birds singing. Devotion is a Belgian Pale Ale, hop heavy, you find a seriously dry and bitter lemon...
View ArticleIntrepid Brewing Co. Blonde (4%)
It’s four in the afternoon, not the time I usually drink beer, but I’ve just been humping furniture around and needed some refreshment. I chose the right beer as well, as Intrepid’s Blonde is crisp and...
View ArticleLeft Bank Brewery Django (6.5%)
Django is a Blonde with a big ABV and I like it a lot. There’s a permeating booziness that rides along through the beer warming and rounding out everything else going on. It’s a big muscly hug that...
View ArticleThree Beers From St. Mars Of The Desert
Biere De Mars (5.1%) From the moment you pour and are met by this beer’s honeysuckle and white pepper aroma, you know you’re in for a treat. The beer sits a bright gold with a soft fluffy head that...
View ArticleSolvay Society In Silico (6.6%)
Brewed in collaboration with the ever wonderful Elusive Brewing this Bitter Blonde is really rather good. There’s an almost farmyard-y apricot fruitiness to the aroma, it’s a smell that could lead you...
View ArticleSolvay Society In Silico (6.6%)
Brewed in collaboration with the wonderful Elusive Brewing, In Silico is a Bitter Blonde, which caused me to think when I read it for the first time that, “I’ve met a couple of them in the past.”...
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