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Big Island Blond
Excelsior Brewing Co.
- From:
- Excelsior Brewing Co.
- Minnesota, United States
- Style:
- American Blonde Ale
Ranked #320 - ABV:
- 5.1%
- Score:
- 79
Ranked #26,576 - Avg:
- 3.4 | pDev: 12.35%
- Reviews:
- 12
- Ratings:
- Status:
- Active
- Rated:
- Aug 09, 2023
- Added:
- Aug 06, 2013
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 14
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Reviewed by LesDewitt4beer from Minnesota
3.52/5 rDev +3.5%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
3.52/5 rDev +3.5%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
12 oz bottles and on tap at the brewery.
L: Light gold color with fair carbonation, a soapy white head, spotty lacing.
S: Caramel malts, hops, honey, light grains.
T: Lightly sweet malts, hops, a hint of honey, grains. Essentially the same as aroma with sweetness.
F: Lightly bright feel with a medium-length finish.
O: Drink this beer cold! Otherwise it loses its pizzazz and fades. It is good in its style.
Mar 22, 2023L: Light gold color with fair carbonation, a soapy white head, spotty lacing.
S: Caramel malts, hops, honey, light grains.
T: Lightly sweet malts, hops, a hint of honey, grains. Essentially the same as aroma with sweetness.
F: Lightly bright feel with a medium-length finish.
O: Drink this beer cold! Otherwise it loses its pizzazz and fades. It is good in its style.
Reviewed by deleted_user_1239096
3.87/5 rDev +13.8%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.75
3.87/5 rDev +13.8%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.75
Pours a typical ale colour with not much variance. Taste is super sweet (or at least sweeter than I like) for a blonde ale, had a hard time finishing the drink. Sure it was be better in summer.
Oct 16, 2019Reviewed by StonedTrippin from Colorado
3.53/5 rDev +3.8%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.5
3.53/5 rDev +3.8%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.5
a decent but relatively unremarkable can of beer here, nice in the heavy food, spicy food, or concert or ballgame setting, where its about being cold and bubbly as much as anything else, and this one delivers at least that much. golden in color with a good amount of carbonation fizzing it up, an aroma of very mild noble hops, pale barley malt and a little sweetness with it, and faint honey and straw, simple, summery, a little cheap maybe, but overall appealing enough for a style that doesnt often excite me much more than this. the flavor is about the same, and there is both a bit of sweetness in the middle, and a bit of a hop profile later on, but all really subtle and simple and still grain focused. high refreshment capacity when its ice cold, but it doesnt warm up great, and like a lot of these finishes tasting a little bit like the can when its at temperature. not bad overall, an easy slugger with good carbonation and a light body. these guys are yet to really impress me too much with anything...
Apr 06, 2018Reviewed by KarlHungus from Minnesota
2.5/5 rDev -26.5%
look: 2.5 | smell: 2.5 | taste: 2.5 | feel: 2.5 | overall: 2.5
2.5/5 rDev -26.5%
look: 2.5 | smell: 2.5 | taste: 2.5 | feel: 2.5 | overall: 2.5
(Re-review 4/23/17, original score 3.29)
This beer pours a hazy dark yellow color. The head is a half inch in height, and recedes quickly into nothing. The aroma has some light caramel, and a trace of diacetyl. The taste is much the same. The diacetyl doesn't dominate the beer, but there is so little else going on that it is prominent. The mouthfeel is medium bodied with slightly lower carbonation than I like to see in a Blonde Ale. Overall, this is both a bad example of a Blonde Ale, and a bad beer in general. I will not drink this again.
Feb 13, 2016This beer pours a hazy dark yellow color. The head is a half inch in height, and recedes quickly into nothing. The aroma has some light caramel, and a trace of diacetyl. The taste is much the same. The diacetyl doesn't dominate the beer, but there is so little else going on that it is prominent. The mouthfeel is medium bodied with slightly lower carbonation than I like to see in a Blonde Ale. Overall, this is both a bad example of a Blonde Ale, and a bad beer in general. I will not drink this again.
Reviewed by Umdrunner from Wisconsin
3.7/5 rDev +8.8%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.75
3.7/5 rDev +8.8%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.75
Poured hazy straw/orange, minimal white head. Lightly citrus and malty scent that matched flavor. Very clean and crisp, flavors all seem to blend into one.
Dec 24, 2015
Big Island Blond from Excelsior Brewing Co.
Beer rating:
79 out of
100 with
55 ratings
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