Single Speed Blonde
Fernie Brewing Co.
- From:
- Fernie Brewing Co.
- British Columbia, Canada
- Style:
- Belgian Blonde Ale
- ABV:
- 4.8%
- Score:
- +5 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.62 | pDev: 5.8%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 2
- Status:
- Inactive
- Rated:
- Feb 01, 2020
- Added:
- Mar 12, 2018
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
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Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by altstadt from Canada (BC)
3.64/5 rDev +0.6%
look: 3 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 3 | overall: 3
3.64/5 rDev +0.6%
look: 3 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 3 | overall: 3
Cloudy brown-tan color. Poured a thick head formed from medium sized bubbles. Could see large numbers of small bubbles rising from the bottom of the glass keeping the head supplied from below as the top degraded to large bubbles. No lacing on the glass as it had foam attached fairly high on the side forming a bowl shaped head.
Mostly cardamom spice scent with some yeast. Swirling the glass kicked up a light barnyard to join the yeast and spice.
The flavor starts off with some sweet vegetable and hops. Cardamom and cinnamon kicks in early and fills in more of the taste. The aftertaste is bitter-sweet cardamom. Curiously no spices are listed as ingredients.
Some tongue tingling as it quickly foams up to large bubbles. Has a medium body that clings to the tongue.
Comparing notes with the review from more than a year ago, it appears that they have backed off on the spice level. I found this to be a light weight example of the reference ale.
Aug 30, 2019Mostly cardamom spice scent with some yeast. Swirling the glass kicked up a light barnyard to join the yeast and spice.
The flavor starts off with some sweet vegetable and hops. Cardamom and cinnamon kicks in early and fills in more of the taste. The aftertaste is bitter-sweet cardamom. Curiously no spices are listed as ingredients.
Some tongue tingling as it quickly foams up to large bubbles. Has a medium body that clings to the tongue.
Comparing notes with the review from more than a year ago, it appears that they have backed off on the spice level. I found this to be a light weight example of the reference ale.
Reviewed by biboergosum from Canada (AB)
3.23/5 rDev -10.8%
look: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3 | overall: 2.75
3.23/5 rDev -10.8%
look: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3 | overall: 2.75
650ml bottle - a 'dry hopped Belgian-style blonde'. The name here has me thinking of less than bike-related interpretations.
This beer pours a slightly hazy, medium golden yellow colour, with two fingers of puffy, loosely foamy, and bubbly off-white head, which leaves some decent broken webbed lace around the glass as things evenly dissipate.
It smells of cardamom and black peppercorn spice, some edgy Belgian yeastiness, gritty and grainy pale malt, and some weak earthy, musty, and floral hop bitters. The taste is grainy and crackery cereal malt, a still heady cardamom spiciness, estery old-school yeast, some muted domestic citrus rind, and more understated earthy, herbal, and almost minty green hoppiness.
The carbonation is average in its palate-coddling frothiness, the body a so-so middleweight, and not particularly smooth, not with that overabundance of spice and yeast kicking about. It finishes trending try, the malt giving up the ghost, as well it should.
Overall - yeah, I love the brewer's notes: 'a small addition of cardamom gives a subtle, complimentary [sic] flavour to the yeast'. Fuck, how small was it, because those two things are all I get in the flavour, save an ethereal citrus note. I'm usually totally averse to pouring out craft beer down the drain, but I am sorely tempted right now.
Apr 12, 2018This beer pours a slightly hazy, medium golden yellow colour, with two fingers of puffy, loosely foamy, and bubbly off-white head, which leaves some decent broken webbed lace around the glass as things evenly dissipate.
It smells of cardamom and black peppercorn spice, some edgy Belgian yeastiness, gritty and grainy pale malt, and some weak earthy, musty, and floral hop bitters. The taste is grainy and crackery cereal malt, a still heady cardamom spiciness, estery old-school yeast, some muted domestic citrus rind, and more understated earthy, herbal, and almost minty green hoppiness.
The carbonation is average in its palate-coddling frothiness, the body a so-so middleweight, and not particularly smooth, not with that overabundance of spice and yeast kicking about. It finishes trending try, the malt giving up the ghost, as well it should.
Overall - yeah, I love the brewer's notes: 'a small addition of cardamom gives a subtle, complimentary [sic] flavour to the yeast'. Fuck, how small was it, because those two things are all I get in the flavour, save an ethereal citrus note. I'm usually totally averse to pouring out craft beer down the drain, but I am sorely tempted right now.
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