Blonde Ale
Sea Change Brewing Co.
- From:
- Sea Change Brewing Co.
- Alberta, Canada
- Style:
- American Blonde Ale
Ranked #198 - ABV:
- 5%
- Score:
- 86
Ranked #27,244 - Avg:
- 3.73 | pDev: 6.7%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 4
- Status:
- Active
- Rated:
- Sunday at 07:44 PM
- Added:
- Mar 01, 2018
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
SCORE
86
Very Good
86
Very Good
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Reviewed by Tburk1997 from Canada (AB)
4.23/5 rDev +13.4%
look: 3.25 | smell: 4 | taste: 5 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3.75
4.23/5 rDev +13.4%
look: 3.25 | smell: 4 | taste: 5 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3.75
Had this beer at the Rec Room on a date with somebody. I've always been a fan of blondes and this did the job just right the head was good and the taste was there
Apr 14, 2025
Reviewed by BPVandenbroek from Canada (AB)
3.7/5 rDev -0.8%
look: 4.75 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 4
3.7/5 rDev -0.8%
look: 4.75 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 4
Sea Change Blonde is only slihtly hazy and mid amber in color. The color is ripe straw combined with hints of lemon yellow. The head is cloud like, bone white, and lasting.
This blonde ale's nose is very straightforward. It starts off with the up front breadiness you might expect from such a light beer. From there comes just the faintest hint of earthiness, just enough to give an otherwise neutral nose a little backbone. The finish is leafy, grassy European hops. There, and quickly gone.
On the tongue, Blonde Ale is smooth, crisp, and lastingly dry. Up front malt flavors are more soda cracker than fresh bread. The center is well rounded, and gives a combination of lemon rind, green apple, and just enough earthiness to give the profile some depth of flavor. A quick hit of floral, leafy hops finishes things off.
It would be very easy to describe Sea Change's Blonde Ale as being "simple," or "straightforward." And you wouldn't be wrong to do so. But don't forget this blonde ale is also delicate, well balanced, and has enough flavor to keep this from being just another lawnmower beer. Instead, it is a beer of some character even if it is simple, delicate character.
Apr 23, 2021This blonde ale's nose is very straightforward. It starts off with the up front breadiness you might expect from such a light beer. From there comes just the faintest hint of earthiness, just enough to give an otherwise neutral nose a little backbone. The finish is leafy, grassy European hops. There, and quickly gone.
On the tongue, Blonde Ale is smooth, crisp, and lastingly dry. Up front malt flavors are more soda cracker than fresh bread. The center is well rounded, and gives a combination of lemon rind, green apple, and just enough earthiness to give the profile some depth of flavor. A quick hit of floral, leafy hops finishes things off.
It would be very easy to describe Sea Change's Blonde Ale as being "simple," or "straightforward." And you wouldn't be wrong to do so. But don't forget this blonde ale is also delicate, well balanced, and has enough flavor to keep this from being just another lawnmower beer. Instead, it is a beer of some character even if it is simple, delicate character.
Reviewed by leaddog from Canada (AB)
3.77/5 rDev +1.1%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
3.77/5 rDev +1.1%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
Appearance - Pours a hazy gold with three fingers of frothy white head.
Smell - biscuity and bready malts, lemon, earthy, leafy, and floral hops, hint of apple, and earthy yeast.
Taste - biscuity and bready malts upfront. Then it goes into the earthy, leafy, and floral hops. It is quickly followed by the lemon, hint of apple and is finished off by the earthy yeast.
Mouthfeel - Medium bodied with moderate carbonation. Finishes crisp and smooth with the malts and lemon lingering.
Overall - A highly drinkable blonde that is very sessionable. It hits all the points of the style and is very easy to drink.
Jan 13, 2020Smell - biscuity and bready malts, lemon, earthy, leafy, and floral hops, hint of apple, and earthy yeast.
Taste - biscuity and bready malts upfront. Then it goes into the earthy, leafy, and floral hops. It is quickly followed by the lemon, hint of apple and is finished off by the earthy yeast.
Mouthfeel - Medium bodied with moderate carbonation. Finishes crisp and smooth with the malts and lemon lingering.
Overall - A highly drinkable blonde that is very sessionable. It hits all the points of the style and is very easy to drink.
Reviewed by biboergosum from Canada (AB)
3.48/5 rDev -6.7%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.5
3.48/5 rDev -6.7%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.5
20oz proper pint pour at Arcadia Bar. This offering is also attached to the soccer fan-club that is trying to get Edmonton's professional franchise back - cool. Wait, what? When did they leave? Also, contract brewed at Yellowhead.
This beer appears a slightly hazy, medium copper yellow colour, with one skinny finger of weakly puffy, loosely foamy, and generally wispy off-white head, which leaves a few instances of orca back-flip aftermath lace around the glass as things slowly progress (friendly and talkative bartender - s'all good, man!)
It smells lightly of bready and grainy cereal malt, a faint pome fruitiness, mild flinty notes, and some ethereal musty, earthy, and dead floral hop bitters. The taste is gritty and toasted biscuity caramel malt, muddled domestic citrus rind, bruised apple fruity esters, and more expectedly understated earthy, leafy, and musky floral hoppiness.
The carbonation is fairly low-key in its perfunctory frothiness, the body a solid middleweight, and generally smooth, with a wan creaminess arising as things warm up - it could be worse, I suppose. It finishes off-dry, just, as the cereal malt dominates the lingering landscape.
Overall - this is a more or less agreeable gateway brew, as it seems that they didn't cheap out on the malt bill when concocting something intended to sell to hipsters on Whyte Avenue and Canadian soccer 'hooligans'. Easy to drink, simple as that.
Mar 02, 2018This beer appears a slightly hazy, medium copper yellow colour, with one skinny finger of weakly puffy, loosely foamy, and generally wispy off-white head, which leaves a few instances of orca back-flip aftermath lace around the glass as things slowly progress (friendly and talkative bartender - s'all good, man!)
It smells lightly of bready and grainy cereal malt, a faint pome fruitiness, mild flinty notes, and some ethereal musty, earthy, and dead floral hop bitters. The taste is gritty and toasted biscuity caramel malt, muddled domestic citrus rind, bruised apple fruity esters, and more expectedly understated earthy, leafy, and musky floral hoppiness.
The carbonation is fairly low-key in its perfunctory frothiness, the body a solid middleweight, and generally smooth, with a wan creaminess arising as things warm up - it could be worse, I suppose. It finishes off-dry, just, as the cereal malt dominates the lingering landscape.
Overall - this is a more or less agreeable gateway brew, as it seems that they didn't cheap out on the malt bill when concocting something intended to sell to hipsters on Whyte Avenue and Canadian soccer 'hooligans'. Easy to drink, simple as that.
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