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Swamp Head Brewery

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Swamp Head Brewery
 
Florida, United States
Style:
American Blonde Ale
ABV:
Not listed
Score:
Needs more ratings
Avg:
4.13 | pDev: 4.12%
Reviews:
3
Ratings:
8
Status:
Retired
Rated:
May 18, 2013
Added:
Oct 05, 2011
Wants:
  0
Gots:
  0
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Recent ratings and reviews.
 
Rated: 4 by JReites from Florida

May 18, 2013
 
Rated: 4.25 by ninaturner from Florida

Jan 05, 2013
 
Rated: 4 by WynnO from Florida

May 30, 2012
 
Rated: 4.25 by twizzbeatz from Florida

May 22, 2012
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Reviewed by kylehay2004 from Illinois

3.97/5  rDev -3.9%
look: 3.5 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
Thin white head on a pale golden clear body. Aroma is mostly breads and light malts but overall mild. Flavor is wheat grain ad breads with pale malt and a slight almost noble hop bitterness. High carbonation and fuller almost creamy body than expected. A nice blond. Not the best in the genre but it gets points for being fuller bodied and flavorful for a sometimes lackluster genre.
Apr 18, 2012
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Reviewed by Jerone from Florida

4.08/5  rDev -1.2%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4
A - Pale gold color with some haze and a fluffy white head that slowly fades and leaves good lacing. Very pretty beer, made my gf go oooo ahhh.

S - The smell is of bread, wheat, maybe a bit of hops and some yeast. A touch of pale malts I suppose but nothing sweet.

T - Maybe the best blonde ale I've ever had (but I haven't had many). Lots of bread flavor and wheat that is balanced by pale malts and has a finish that is ever so slightly bitter as if from hops, but you can't really taste the over the wheat.

M - Great mouthfeel with medium to high carbonation and a texture that is slightly chewy which I love in this type of beer.

O - A solid beer that I would order again, not my favorite style but they do a great job with it.
Dec 02, 2011
 
Rated: 4 by nickfl from Florida

Nov 16, 2011
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Reviewed by One2Remeber from Florida

4.47/5  rDev +8.2%
look: 4 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.5
Filled my quart growler with Springboard, a migrational release, blonde ale.

A: Thin, bubbly, well-carbonated white head fades after a couple minutes. Body is a golden maze color that is extremely transparent, crystal clear. Carbonation looks spot on. Appearance is inviting, looks like any easy one to take down.

S: Dominant bready notes off the bat, smells extremely fresh and potent; like a malt version of dry-hopping.

T: Just like the smell but even better. This is a wonderful malty beer. I have never experienced such a fresh bready malty taste, and I am so taken back because it is not over the top, very maintainable taste.

M: Feels like you took a bunch of spent grains and chewed on them for awhile; a fresh malt presence lingers making this light beer not so light in flavor, actually quite exhilarating for the pallet.

O: I love how Swamp Head blows my pallet away with quite simple beers. Stump knocker is a true pale ale with an explosive hop profile (not a pale ale trying to be an IPA). Midnight Oil is not the most flavorful, robust stout, yet it is the first one of the style I fell in love with, now I can appreciate the bigger malt profile stouts. Blackwater is one of my all time favorites, it opened the door for black ales in my opinion due to its balance between stout and IPA.
Oct 05, 2011
Springboard from Swamp Head Brewery
Beer rating: 4.13 out of 5 with 8 ratings