Hazy Blonde Ale
Sawback Brewing Co.

473ml can poured into tulip.

Pours a slightly hazy bright gold that leaves some spotty lace as it recedes.

Smells of fresh bread dough, orange and grapefruit zest, a bit of mango and melon, and some leafy green hops.

Tastes of more doughy pale malt, zesty citrus, mango, melon and more leafy forest hops.

Feels light and soft. Light bodied with frothy carbonation. Finishes off-dry.

Verdict: Highly recommended. Refreshing and very tasty.

473ml can - why everything gotta be hazy of late?

This beer pours a slightly hazy (no apologies), medium golden yellow colour, with two fingers of puffy, rocky, and mildly bubbly off-white head, which leaves some decent frilly lace around the glass as it quickly dissipates.

It smells of bready and doughy cereal malt, muddled domestic citrus peel, a further indistinct tropical fruitiness, and very tame earthy, leafy, and piney green hop bitters. The taste is gritty and grainy pale malt, some orange and lemon citrus rind, still hard to pin down exotic fruity notes, and more leafy, herbal, and piney verdant hoppiness.

The carbonation is adequate in its palate-priming frothiness, the body a solid middleweight, and mostly smooth, with nothing really showing the nerve to interfere with the norm at this particular point in the process. It finishes off-dry, the Alberta malt working the lingering room.

Overall - this should have been called Hoppy Blonde Ale, because it is certainly hoppier than yer typical version of the style, and not all that hazy. At any rate, it's good - refreshing and easy to put back on this first day of actual Spring. Worth trying out, is what I'm sayin' here.