Brew Eyed Blond
Bo Bristle Brewing Company

On tap at Against The Grain, Dublin.

Deep gold with a tight white carpet. Honeydew and lemon nose.
Toasted white pan and sour grain give way quickly to citrusy hops.
Fruit jam finish and drying linger. Light hinting at medium, soft and crisp.

A surprisingly hoppy quencher - is there some Cascade in there? At the same time, very English, which makes it unique among all the pale ales out of Ireland in the past year or so.

 

A new beer to the Irish craft beer scene. This was a tasting done on 29.07 2011. Bottle was a 330ml brown bottle with distinctive labelling and showed a best by date of Jan '12 batch 111. This best by/batch looked hand written which was nice!

I poured this in to a stemmed beer glass and it was a clear amber (not blond) with a thin head that left modest lacing on the glass. The smell was refreshing and hoppy with some sweetness. The taste was quite full of hops bulked out by a maltiness hence why I decided to call it an English pale ale. I could not call it a Belgian blond, that's for sure.

Overall this is a nicely balance beer withoout being a classic.