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Fish Tale Organic Blonde Ale
Fish Brewing Company / Fishbowl Brewpub
- From:
- Fish Brewing Company / Fishbowl Brewpub
- Washington, United States
- Style:
- American Blonde Ale
- ABV:
- 4%
- Score:
- 77
- Avg:
- 3.21 | pDev: 11.84%
- Reviews:
- 23
- Ratings:
- Status:
- Retired
- Rated:
- Feb 01, 2019
- Added:
- Jul 25, 2005
- Wants:
- 2
- Gots:
- 1
No description / notes.
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Ratings by beveragecaptain:
Reviewed by beveragecaptain from New Jersey
3.38/5 rDev +5.3%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
3.38/5 rDev +5.3%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
12 ounce bottle. Fish Tale Blonde pours out a hazy orange color with a medium sized white head. The aroma is pepper, tobacco, and peaches. The flavor is spicy up front, with a strong taste of tobacco. I get that same tobacco flavor in Fish Tale's Pale Ale. A tasty fruit flavor comes in at the middle and lasts through to a refreshing finish. Some grassy hop flavor comes in at the finish too. Medium mouthfeel. Carbonation is a little high. A decent, but weird, blonde ale.
Jan 15, 2006More User Ratings:
Reviewed by Monkeyknife from Missouri
3.19/5 rDev -0.6%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 3 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.25
3.19/5 rDev -0.6%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 3 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.25
Poured from the bottle a light golden color with a very thin white head. No lacing left behind.
The aroma was mostly light grains and just a hint of of floral hoppiness.
The taste was fairly bland with just a sweet maltiness presented. Nothing there as far as hops.
Lighter bodied and crisp with a moderate carbonation.
A fairly average American Blonde from Fish Tale. Nothing stood out or delivered anything to make it memorable.
Jan 14, 2013The aroma was mostly light grains and just a hint of of floral hoppiness.
The taste was fairly bland with just a sweet maltiness presented. Nothing there as far as hops.
Lighter bodied and crisp with a moderate carbonation.
A fairly average American Blonde from Fish Tale. Nothing stood out or delivered anything to make it memorable.
Reviewed by beerthulhu from New Jersey
2.76/5 rDev -14%
look: 3 | smell: 2 | taste: 3 | feel: 3 | overall: 3
2.76/5 rDev -14%
look: 3 | smell: 2 | taste: 3 | feel: 3 | overall: 3
4% certified organic.
A: Pale lemony pour, slight cloudiness, with a mixture of micro & macro bubbles. Dirty white head is slight and washy, lackluster providing no window dresing.
S: dried grains, dried lemon bread, very weak aromatically.
T: Lemon straw, citrusy flavor, a bit tart, wheat with some lemony hop flavor but not particularly tasty. Linear experience, no bright spots.
M: Some signs of carbonation crispness, light bready body, tart.
O: Overall an average experience sums this up best lacking any real drinking enjoyment, with a meh sensation all the way through. Your not missing much here and at .99 a bottle thankfully im not missing much either.
Jan 09, 2013A: Pale lemony pour, slight cloudiness, with a mixture of micro & macro bubbles. Dirty white head is slight and washy, lackluster providing no window dresing.
S: dried grains, dried lemon bread, very weak aromatically.
T: Lemon straw, citrusy flavor, a bit tart, wheat with some lemony hop flavor but not particularly tasty. Linear experience, no bright spots.
M: Some signs of carbonation crispness, light bready body, tart.
O: Overall an average experience sums this up best lacking any real drinking enjoyment, with a meh sensation all the way through. Your not missing much here and at .99 a bottle thankfully im not missing much either.
Reviewed by barleywinefiend from Washington
2.63/5 rDev -18.1%
look: 2.5 | smell: 2 | taste: 3 | feel: 3 | overall: 2.5
2.63/5 rDev -18.1%
look: 2.5 | smell: 2 | taste: 3 | feel: 3 | overall: 2.5
A: Poured a golden yellow with low carbonation leaving a small whispy cap that quickly fades into nothing
S: Musty, what else can I say?
T: A little sweet apple cider, honeyish upfront with a somewhat clean but bitter, astringent fiunish
M: Light bodied, sordove boring, flat and not to appealing
O: A pretty poor representation of the style
Sep 02, 2012S: Musty, what else can I say?
T: A little sweet apple cider, honeyish upfront with a somewhat clean but bitter, astringent fiunish
M: Light bodied, sordove boring, flat and not to appealing
O: A pretty poor representation of the style
Reviewed by ChainGangGuy from Georgia
2.93/5 rDev -8.7%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3 | taste: 2.5 | feel: 4 | overall: 3
2.93/5 rDev -8.7%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3 | taste: 2.5 | feel: 4 | overall: 3
12 ounce bottle - $1.99 at Total Wine & More in Kennesaw, Georgia.
Appearance: Pours out a hazy, dirtied (maybe filthy) blonde-hued body with a small, wispy, whitish head.
Smell: Cereal-scented barley with a faint floral undertones and a odd splash of apple juice.
Taste: Golden barley with a small dose of malty sweetness. Sip of mass-made cider. Not picking up any of the added rye grain. Lightly floral hops, very light bitterness. Sweetish, curiously cidery finish. Dull. Cidery.
Mouthfeel: Medium-bodied. Medium carbonation.
Overall: This one never aspires to be more than a humdrum blonde ale.
Aug 27, 2012Appearance: Pours out a hazy, dirtied (maybe filthy) blonde-hued body with a small, wispy, whitish head.
Smell: Cereal-scented barley with a faint floral undertones and a odd splash of apple juice.
Taste: Golden barley with a small dose of malty sweetness. Sip of mass-made cider. Not picking up any of the added rye grain. Lightly floral hops, very light bitterness. Sweetish, curiously cidery finish. Dull. Cidery.
Mouthfeel: Medium-bodied. Medium carbonation.
Overall: This one never aspires to be more than a humdrum blonde ale.
Reviewed by Nerudamann from Oregon
3.32/5 rDev +3.4%
look: 3 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3 | overall: 3
3.32/5 rDev +3.4%
look: 3 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3 | overall: 3
Poured from a bottle into a stein glass.
Look – light golden color, clear, with light but good carbonation and about half a finger’s worth of foam that dissipates quickly.
Smell – light, grainy, but somewhat earthy smell. It literally smells like something grown from the earth like beans.
Taste – much like the smell, it tastes light with a touch of a cereal grain type of taste, but also with that “home-grown” type of flare as well, which lingers into the aftertaste.
Mouthfeel – pretty well-balanced, but does lean a bit on the watery side.
Overall – a little interesting, but otherwise nothing terribly fancy. Not bad-tasting though.
Jul 31, 2012Look – light golden color, clear, with light but good carbonation and about half a finger’s worth of foam that dissipates quickly.
Smell – light, grainy, but somewhat earthy smell. It literally smells like something grown from the earth like beans.
Taste – much like the smell, it tastes light with a touch of a cereal grain type of taste, but also with that “home-grown” type of flare as well, which lingers into the aftertaste.
Mouthfeel – pretty well-balanced, but does lean a bit on the watery side.
Overall – a little interesting, but otherwise nothing terribly fancy. Not bad-tasting though.
Reviewed by joemcgrath27 from Canada (AB)
3.42/5 rDev +6.5%
look: 3 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3 | overall: 3.5
3.42/5 rDev +6.5%
look: 3 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3 | overall: 3.5
A - nearly clear golden, short white head quickly dissipated to a random spots
S - strong grainy aroma with leafy and metallic notes and mild fruitiness
T - toasty grainy malt with a bitter leafy hop note, slightly metallic and with a bit of pepper and fruit on the late finish
M - very light with a puckering feel that builds through the finish
O - its has characteristic of a kolsch and/or pilsner, nothing really stands out about it, but it is easy drinking
Oct 22, 2011S - strong grainy aroma with leafy and metallic notes and mild fruitiness
T - toasty grainy malt with a bitter leafy hop note, slightly metallic and with a bit of pepper and fruit on the late finish
M - very light with a puckering feel that builds through the finish
O - its has characteristic of a kolsch and/or pilsner, nothing really stands out about it, but it is easy drinking
Fish Tale Organic Blonde Ale from Fish Brewing Company / Fishbowl Brewpub
Beer rating:
77 out of
100 with
36 ratings
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