Powder Hound Blonde Ale
The Grizzly Paw Brewing Company

Powder Hound Blonde AlePowder Hound Blonde Ale
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From:
The Grizzly Paw Brewing Company
 
Alberta, Canada
Style:
American Blonde Ale
ABV:
4.5%
Score:
Needs more ratings
Avg:
3.31 | pDev: 16.92%
Reviews:
3
Ratings:
7
Status:
Active
Rated:
Oct 27, 2018
Added:
Oct 18, 2015
Wants:
  1
Gots:
  1
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Recent ratings and reviews.
Ratings by biboergosum:
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Reviewed by biboergosum from Canada (AB)

3.47/5  rDev +4.8%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.5
341ml bottle. Queries to the brewery as to this one's provenance have thus far gone unanswered, but hey, a blonde ale is not a pilsner, right, we can all agree on that? And I presume that 'Tully Fraser' is the mutt panting on the label?

This beer pours a clear, pale golden yellow colour, with one skinny finger of weakly puffy, bubbly, and somewhat fizzy dirty white head, which leaves a bit of pinprick star pattern lace around the glass as it quickly blows off.

It smells of bready, lightly doughy pale malt, estery yeast, mildly sour pome fruit, and plain leafy, weedy, and sort of grassy hops. The taste is grainy, doughy pale malt, diluted apple juice, a fading earthy yeastiness, and more subtle weedy, leafy, and dead grassy hop bitterness.

The bubbles are very light and easy-going on the inner workings of the ol' froth-o-meter, the body a decent middleweight, and generally smooth, nothing really standing up here to get its head metaphorically lopped off. It finishes off-dry, the bready graininess persisting far longer and hardier that the attendant old-school hops.

Overall, a simple and laid-back brew, sufficient for re-hydrating (yeah, that's it) after killing your legs on the nearby 'hills' adjoining Canmore. For the rest of us, however, there's not much here worth getting all piqued and bothered about - sorry, boy.
Oct 18, 2015
More User Ratings:
 
Rated: 3.54 by wordemupg from Canada (AB)

Oct 27, 2018
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Reviewed by csmrx7 from Canada (AB)

2.9/5  rDev -12.4%
look: 3.5 | smell: 2.75 | taste: 2.75 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3
It's a blond but really nothing special. Could be a bit cleaner, could have a bit more light malt flavor. Designed to be non-offesive but that in itself is kind of offensive.
Sep 09, 2018
 
Rated: 2.34 by R_Kole from Canada (AB)

Jun 10, 2018
 
Rated: 3 by Howlader from Canada (AB)

Jul 09, 2017
 
Rated: 4.21 by Vylo from New Jersey

May 30, 2017
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Reviewed by headlessparrot from Canada (ON)

3.68/5  rDev +11.2%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
A recent change in recipe means this "hound" has suddenly changed breeds--going from a lager (pilsner) to a (blonde) ale. And the transition has served it well. It's not going to set the world on fire (does any blonde ale?), but there's a lightness, a clean-ness, a slight fruity, biscuit/doughy-ness here that's rather appealing and rather refreshing. Slightly leafy, just a bit earthy, some slight apple/orange fruitiness. Very, very sessional.
Mar 10, 2016
Powder Hound Blonde Ale from The Grizzly Paw Brewing Company
Beer rating: 3.31 out of 5 with 7 ratings