Three Beaches Honey Blonde
Tyranena Brewing Company

 

I tried this beer at my boss house. I am eating the beer as the brewer untended....not that I liked it. The beer poured a clear golden with white head that is not leaving any lace. The scent had hints of honey and flower. The taste started as a mild golden ale but at the end was over come with honey. The mouthfeel is lighter in body with good carbonation. Overall I think it met the brewer's intentions.

Pours a hazy golden color with a minimal head that disappears quickly. No discernable aroma. The sweet taste comes from the honey. Good mouth feel.

Poured from a 12oz bottle.

Poured clear and flat. I don't mean a little head, I mean flat. Muscled through it. Aroma had a honey note. Taste was very bland, with a fading honey note in the middle. Tasted flat, and nearly stale. I really hope I just got a dud. I'd try it again, but I would not buy it.

 

 

The taste is actually pretty nice, with honey, wild flower and grass providing an elevated layer to the grains, malts, and adjuncts. The smell is rough though, very adjunct, and the body is soooo thin. Not worth seeking out unless in the mood for a blonde ale

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Three Beaches is a clear, pale yellow with a little foam that fades pretty quickly. No lacing. The smell is nothing special. It's a little sweetness, but mostly grains. The taste is mostly bready with the faintest trace of honey. I was hoping for more honey taste. Its a nice beer, but I was a little disappointed. I'm not sure that I'd buy it again, but I would drink it if offered.

 

I'm so glad to see brewers giving blondes a go. They are a nice bridge for clueless Americans from the bland world of lagers into ales.

This blonde is smooth and lightly sweet due to the honey. It offers flavor depth that most lagers only dream to achieve. It goes down easy and makes you reminiscent of warm summer nights.

 

Clear golden blonde with bubbly head that dissipates quickly. Nice malty busicuit smell and taste, mouthfeel is nice with little skunk at end. Lacking anything outstanding. Honey not noticeable.

 

 

 

 

 

Pours a clear, gold color. 1/4 inch head of a white color. Decent retention and poor lacing. Smells of pale malt, honey, slight wheat, and a hint of hop. Mouth feel is sharp and crisp, with an average carbonation level. Tastes of pale malt, hint of wheat, hint of hop, sweet malt, and honey. Overall, weak appearance, weak body, and dominated by honey.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The beer is a clear, light golden hue with a small, off-white foamy head. Aromas of biscuit, general sweetness, perhaps some fruit overtones. Bread and honey with a sweetness that would become cloying if I had more than half the bottle. Light in body with moderate carbonation. Not a repeat.

 

 

 

Tried a single sixteen-ounce pint, paired with some fish & chips.

Immediately, this beer reminded me strongly of Midas Touch. Not because it was anywhere near as good, but because Tyranena definitely goes heavy on the honey with this light-malt, low-hop ale. The comparison, while not favoring Three Beaches, does serve to point out the narrow space high-honey beers (like this and Midas Touch) have to tread to be great: it's easy for the brew to become cloying, too wine-like (in the wrong way), or otherwise dominated by the mead-esque tastes and textures.

Dogfish Head toes this line and avoids these pitfalls in Midas Touch with elegant use of muscat grapes—sending the beer along two divergent wine-like vectors, one white and one gold, and adding substantial complexity to the beverage—along with yeast that provides a crisp sharpness and almost champagne-like buoyancy.

The precise problem with Three Beaches—and if it seems like I'm writing more about Midas Touch than the beer in question, this is the reason—is that it lacks any such layering: outside the honey, there's not much there, and the specific honeyed flavors insist themselves so strongly that the light and refreshing qualities—the putative blondeness—that one would expect are actually undermined.

One serving wasn't bad; I cannot, however, really imagine drinking two or three, much less sessioning on a six-pack while relaxing all day on some lacustrine beach. Judging by the name, that seems to be the telos of this honey blonde, but—while by no means a *bad* beer—I don't think it accomplishes its end.