It Is What It Is
Good Measure Brewing Co.
- From:
- Good Measure Brewing Co.
- Vermont, United States
- Style:
- American Blonde Ale
- ABV:
- 4%
- Score:
- +7 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.89 | pDev: 5.66%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 2
- Status:
- Inactive
- Rated:
- Apr 19, 2018
- Added:
- Aug 31, 2017
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
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When we received a new shipment of hops in, including some experimental varieties we immediately set to work figuring out what the profiles were. We brewed this beer with 100% Experimental #4 Hops from Crosby Hops in Oregon. The hops are said to be in the High Oil Cascade and Amarillo family and we found there to be notes of pear, nectarine, peach and slight pine. The beer had a standard but soft malt base consisting of a large amount of pilsner malt and a touch of wheat as well to help provide a round mouthfeel and body. Most of the hop additions were added at the whirlpool as to bring out the fruit and pine aromas in the beer. We then dry-hopped with over 3 lbs per bbl to add more character. It's our take on a modern blonde ale and probably fits more in the pale ale category but we still love it!
Pilsner, Flaked Wheat, Wheat Malt, Acidulated Malt, Dextrose
Experimental #4 Hops
35 IBU
Pilsner, Flaked Wheat, Wheat Malt, Acidulated Malt, Dextrose
Experimental #4 Hops
35 IBU
Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by GreesyFizeek from New York
4.2/5 rDev +8%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.25
4.2/5 rDev +8%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.25
On tap at Farmhouse Tap and Grill in Burlington, VT.
This one pours a light and slightly hazy straw yellow, with a small head, and lots of lacing.
This smells nice, almost like peach tea, with grassy hops, pine, and biscuity malt.
This is very light, but there's a surprising amount of flavor in this sort of delicate and compact package. The experimental hops used are really interesting, there's definitely a stone fruit component, but also a nice floral tea character, and just a hint of pine. I definitely want to see these used again. The malt base is toasty and slightly biscuity, but not sweet at all.
This is light bodied, crisp and very clean, with a good level of carbonation.
I really enjoyed this one.
Apr 19, 2018This one pours a light and slightly hazy straw yellow, with a small head, and lots of lacing.
This smells nice, almost like peach tea, with grassy hops, pine, and biscuity malt.
This is very light, but there's a surprising amount of flavor in this sort of delicate and compact package. The experimental hops used are really interesting, there's definitely a stone fruit component, but also a nice floral tea character, and just a hint of pine. I definitely want to see these used again. The malt base is toasty and slightly biscuity, but not sweet at all.
This is light bodied, crisp and very clean, with a good level of carbonation.
I really enjoyed this one.
Reviewed by Lone_Freighter from Vermont
3.75/5 rDev -3.6%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
3.75/5 rDev -3.6%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
Growlette share.
We all poured into becher pint glasses.
The appearance was a semi-glossy to pale yellow to orange color with a quarter finger's worth of white foamy head that slid off at a moderate pace. Slight lace ran here and there but ultimately slid into oblivion.
The aroma had some white pear, sweet apple, some tartness from the skin, light sour peach, a little pine, some sweet grass and ended with a little bit of lemon.
The flavor was moderately sweet pulling in the tartness and sour to elevate the blend of the apple and peach. Pear seemed to blend with the pine a little bit more. Slight aftertaste of the pear and the pine.
The mouthfeel was about medium bodied with a fair sessionability about it. Carbonation felt fine, mediocre. ABV felt on par. Semi-smooth finish on the pear and apple.
Overall, really nice beer but somewhat weird as a blonde ale, almost like a saison but without any Belgian sweet or spicy aspects.
Sep 24, 2017We all poured into becher pint glasses.
The appearance was a semi-glossy to pale yellow to orange color with a quarter finger's worth of white foamy head that slid off at a moderate pace. Slight lace ran here and there but ultimately slid into oblivion.
The aroma had some white pear, sweet apple, some tartness from the skin, light sour peach, a little pine, some sweet grass and ended with a little bit of lemon.
The flavor was moderately sweet pulling in the tartness and sour to elevate the blend of the apple and peach. Pear seemed to blend with the pine a little bit more. Slight aftertaste of the pear and the pine.
The mouthfeel was about medium bodied with a fair sessionability about it. Carbonation felt fine, mediocre. ABV felt on par. Semi-smooth finish on the pear and apple.
Overall, really nice beer but somewhat weird as a blonde ale, almost like a saison but without any Belgian sweet or spicy aspects.
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