Blonde Bombshell
The Merchant Ale House Restaurant & Brew Pub
- From:
- The Merchant Ale House Restaurant & Brew Pub
- Ontario, Canada
- Style:
- American Blonde Ale
- ABV:
- 5%
- Score:
- +3 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.03 | pDev: 21.12%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 5
- Status:
- Inactive
- Rated:
- Aug 06, 2020
- Added:
- Jul 13, 2005
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
NO SCORE
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No description / notes.
Recent ratings and reviews.
Ratings by Sammy:
Reviewed by Sammy from Canada (ON)
2.56/5 rDev -15.5%
look: 3.5 | smell: 2.5 | taste: 2.5 | feel: 2.5 | overall: 2.5
2.56/5 rDev -15.5%
look: 3.5 | smell: 2.5 | taste: 2.5 | feel: 2.5 | overall: 2.5
Why bother when a few yards away your fomer brewer brews up a very decent blond. I guess it's a staple. Bit of yeast here, not noticeably creamy rather watery. Aggressively carbonated. Drinkable. Lace was nice, yellow golden. Astringent and you can pass on this one.
Jul 13, 2005More User Ratings:
Reviewed by Pmicdee from Canada (ON)
3.85/5 rDev +27.1%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
3.85/5 rDev +27.1%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
Pours way darker than any blonde ale I’ve ever seen. The smell is bready with notes of apple juice. The taste has a strong yeasty taste to it, not unpleasant, exactly the opposite, but stronger than your typical blonde ale. I quite enjoyed this one
Sept 15 2020
Aug 06, 2020Sept 15 2020
Reviewed by kwjd from Canada (ON)
3/5 rDev -1%
look: 3 | smell: 3 | taste: 3 | feel: 3 | overall: 3
3/5 rDev -1%
look: 3 | smell: 3 | taste: 3 | feel: 3 | overall: 3
Before going here, my cousin that typically drinks light lagers mentioned she drank this while she was a student at Brock, so I fully expected this to be a pale lager substitute. Pours a pale orange colour with fizzy white head that dissipates quickly with very mild lace. Flavour is basically just a clean macro lager, nothing too descript about it, but nothing off either. Really big carbonation level. No point to drink this unless you wanted to drink a Canadian or Blue and realized they don't have it at the Merchant Ale House.
Dec 29, 2010Reviewed by BrewSomerville from Canada (ON)
2.71/5 rDev -10.6%
look: 3 | smell: 2 | taste: 3 | feel: 2.5 | overall: 3
2.71/5 rDev -10.6%
look: 3 | smell: 2 | taste: 3 | feel: 2.5 | overall: 3
The aroma was very faint. The only detectable aroma was citrus.
Looks hazy. Yellow/orange in colour. Small head, with not much head retention.
Had to let it warm up for evaluation.Tastes a bit like orange peels. Definaltely getting citrus flavours off of it. A little bit of yeasty flavours but they are taking back-seat to the orange peel.
Mouthfeel was very fizzy, gassy, and crisp. Light to light-medium bodied.
Overall, it's given a pass. I'd prefer their stout, or ESB though.
Jun 08, 2007Looks hazy. Yellow/orange in colour. Small head, with not much head retention.
Had to let it warm up for evaluation.Tastes a bit like orange peels. Definaltely getting citrus flavours off of it. A little bit of yeasty flavours but they are taking back-seat to the orange peel.
Mouthfeel was very fizzy, gassy, and crisp. Light to light-medium bodied.
Overall, it's given a pass. I'd prefer their stout, or ESB though.
Reviewed by TerryW from Canada (ON)
2.06/5 rDev -32%
look: 3 | smell: 2 | taste: 2 | feel: 2 | overall: 2
2.06/5 rDev -32%
look: 3 | smell: 2 | taste: 2 | feel: 2 | overall: 2
Not good, I'd give this a pass.
Very weak-kneed across the board with only a hint of flavour and aroma of any sort. Quite watery and characterless with a slightly metallic tang. Some points for its clear golden colour. Disappointing compared to some of the house's other offerings.
The worse news is that this is the basis for a Strawberry Blonde variant ...
On the positive side this (and the Strawberry) were the only house brews I really didn't care for, otherwise it's a lineup worth sampling.
Jun 08, 2006Very weak-kneed across the board with only a hint of flavour and aroma of any sort. Quite watery and characterless with a slightly metallic tang. Some points for its clear golden colour. Disappointing compared to some of the house's other offerings.
The worse news is that this is the basis for a Strawberry Blonde variant ...
On the positive side this (and the Strawberry) were the only house brews I really didn't care for, otherwise it's a lineup worth sampling.
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