1943, The Hive Bomber
Analog Brewing

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Analog Brewing
 
Alberta, Canada
Style:
American Blonde Ale
ABV:
4.3%
Score:
+9 ratings needed
Avg:
3.16 | pDev: 0%
Ratings:
1 | reviews: 1
Status:
Inactive
Rated:
Jun 03, 2018
Added:
Jun 03, 2018
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Reviewed by biboergosum from Canada (AB)

3.16/5  rDev 0%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 3 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3
8oz glass at Beer Revolution YEG Oliver Square. Zero information available about what kind of brew this is, even on the brewey's website. Style guessed from a sampler.

This beer appears a clear, medium golden yellow colour, with a very thin cap of wispy and faintly bubbly bone-white 'head', which leaves a bit of streaky and loopy lace around the glass as things slowly sink away.

It smells faintly of gritty and grainy cereal malt, mild mixed pome fruity notes, a hint of clover honey, and some ethereal earthy, leafy, and floral green hop bitters. The taste is grainy and bready pale malt, some earthy yeastiness, a weak musty honey essence, and some still rather wan leafy, weedy, and floral hoppiness.

The carbonation is pretty tame in its innocuous frothiness, the body a decent middleweight, and generally smooth, with nothing really getting in the way of a swell time at the moment. It finishes off-dry, the malt ringing out all by its little lonesome.

Overall - this may or may not be a honey blonde ale (based predominantly on the name), but it is certainly a typical, underwhelming example of the base style. Plain, not exactly refreshing, and a sign of more time required at the ol' drawing board, as it were.
Jun 03, 2018