Blonde
Indian Ocean Brewing Company
- From:
- Indian Ocean Brewing Company
- Australia
- Style:
- Belgian Blonde Ale
- ABV:
- 6%
- Score:
- +8 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.29 | pDev: 6.08%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 2
- Status:
- Retired
- Rated:
- Jul 11, 2014
- Added:
- Jun 13, 2014
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
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Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by laituegonflable from Australia
3.09/5 rDev -6.1%
look: 3 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 3 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3
3.09/5 rDev -6.1%
look: 3 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 3 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3
On tap at GABS festival in Melbourne, May 2014.
Pours a clear golden colour, with nice trickly bead through it. Foamy white head. Nice bead, but looks pretty bland otherwise.
Smells Belgian, with a slightly rich toffee note with a tinge of vanilla, phenolic at the back with a slight metallic twang. Pretty meh.
Taste is sweet, with caramel toffee upfront that descends into a slightly phenolic Belgian finish, with a slight candi sugar booze lift and again a slight metallic twang. Very generic and dull.
Body is thin, OK for the style.
Very generic. Kind of tastes like a first homebrew effort trying Belgian yeasts. Can do better for this festival and this crowd.
Jul 11, 2014Pours a clear golden colour, with nice trickly bead through it. Foamy white head. Nice bead, but looks pretty bland otherwise.
Smells Belgian, with a slightly rich toffee note with a tinge of vanilla, phenolic at the back with a slight metallic twang. Pretty meh.
Taste is sweet, with caramel toffee upfront that descends into a slightly phenolic Belgian finish, with a slight candi sugar booze lift and again a slight metallic twang. Very generic and dull.
Body is thin, OK for the style.
Very generic. Kind of tastes like a first homebrew effort trying Belgian yeasts. Can do better for this festival and this crowd.
Reviewed by lacqueredmouse from Australia
3.49/5 rDev +6.1%
look: 3.25 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
3.49/5 rDev +6.1%
look: 3.25 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
Tried on-tap at GABS in Melbourne.
Pours a pale golden colour, certainly within the realms of blonde with some hazing through the clean, light body. Fine but inconsistent white bubbling forms the head, and doesn't leave much in the way of lacing. It looks a little underwhelming.
Belgian esters come through fairly well, but underneath is a sort of yeasty blandness that doesn't help accentuate some of those spicier characters. A little pepper is noticeable as is a touch of acidity. Not bad all up, but not really that interesting either.
Light rounded entry on the front palate with an immediate dryness which continues throughout. Yeasty tones come through along with a stretched thin malt character. Back is fairly clean, but the dryness has parched most of the Belgian notes except for a faint lingering spice. It's actually not bad. The feel is surprisingly a little fuller than the dryness would make you believe.
Overall, while it's not a mind-blowing beer, it's fairly solid all the same.
Jun 13, 2014Pours a pale golden colour, certainly within the realms of blonde with some hazing through the clean, light body. Fine but inconsistent white bubbling forms the head, and doesn't leave much in the way of lacing. It looks a little underwhelming.
Belgian esters come through fairly well, but underneath is a sort of yeasty blandness that doesn't help accentuate some of those spicier characters. A little pepper is noticeable as is a touch of acidity. Not bad all up, but not really that interesting either.
Light rounded entry on the front palate with an immediate dryness which continues throughout. Yeasty tones come through along with a stretched thin malt character. Back is fairly clean, but the dryness has parched most of the Belgian notes except for a faint lingering spice. It's actually not bad. The feel is surprisingly a little fuller than the dryness would make you believe.
Overall, while it's not a mind-blowing beer, it's fairly solid all the same.
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