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summer blonde ale is at its peak, turning out to be a pretty delightful brew. The full specs are below.
Summer Blonde Ale
- I brewed this up on June 28, 2014, and bottled it on July 13. Thus, it has had about a month to condition. The sample I am evaluating here is from a bottle.
- Basics
- Original gravity = 1.046; final gravity = 1.008; abv = 5.0%.
- Appearance
- Clear, straw-colored
- Head is white, fine, and low, with fair retention over the course of the sampling
- Aroma
- Taste
- Clean and slightly malty; pleasant
- A subtle hops finish
- Good balance between hops and malt
- Would I brew this again?
- Absolutely! This is perhaps one of the best all-grain beers I've done to date, and it is perfect for sipping on warm summer evenings. As near as I can tell, the recipe (and this batch) nails the style quite squarely, and is very much to my taste. I don't know that there is much, if anything, that I would change; maybe up the malt and hops ever-so-slightly, but that's about it. Probably a bad idea to mess with a good thing.
- Overall rating: 8/10
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