BREWERY: Flying Fish Brewing Company
STYLE: Blonde Ale
ABV: 4.6%
PURCHASE: 60-oz. pitcher, $8.00
SERVING: Said pitcher, poured into chilled pint glass. Not very heady from the tap, but much more so from pitcher to glass. A run-of-the-mill pour yielded three inches, roughly. A slow pour still got two. Great retention.
APPEARANCE: Pale straw and transparent, if blurry. Looks like it could pass for an adjunct lager a la Bud. Bright white head like a light bulb. Average lacing, more or less.
BOUQUET: A faint hint of lemon zest. Other than that: Doughy, malty, yeasty. Not much else.
PALATE: Light-medium body with soft carbonation. Hop factor is almost null. Increasing malt and yeast factor from entry throughout the early going. Slight tartness sets in mid-palate and gently crescendos, becoming the main attraction come aftertaste. By that stage, citrus is somewhat prominent as well, as is a reasserted yeastiness. Smooth overall mouthfeel with a moderately bitter lemony bite at the end.
MUSINGS AND METAPHORS: The finish and aftertaste are what sell this beer. In any case, this is another brew with an identity crisis. It's called "Farmhouse Summer Ale." Farmhouse=saison. Saison is (sort of) what it tastes like, with the tart factor and all. Yet, it's marketed and promoted as a "blonde ale."
More accurately, this is a saison-meets-adjunct. Which is to say, it's a "corn flakes" beer with some added oomph. Some.
GRADE: C+
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