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Arbor Brasserie Blonde Sparkling Ale


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14
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A Saison brewed by
Arbor Brewing Company Pub & Eatery

Ann Arbor, Michigan USA

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152.32/5.02.36/5.06%1Tulip P  Stats

Commercial Description:
Available on tap at both breweries and in 12 ounce bottles in the market; brewed with sweet orange peel and never introduced to bacteria via the oak barrels. It’s a sweeter version more in the style of a saison or French farmhouse ale.

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 Beaver (488), Fort Collins, Colorado, USA
2.4 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
4/103/55/102/510/20

May 8, 2008  
12 oz bottle. Pours hazy golden amber with a thin head that quickly diminishes to a thin film.

The aroma is big butterscotch and some sour apples.

The flavor is the same as the aroma - butterscotch and some caramel and sour apples with a dry finish. The mouthfeel is thin and watery.

Overall, it’s not terrible, but it is rather strange. I kind of wonder if this was a bad bottle or if it was meant to be like this.


 jcwattsrugger (4045), Florida and, New Jersey, USA
3.2 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/104/56/103/513/20
Aug 21, 2008  
12 oz bottle-pours a foamy off white head and hazy amber color. Aroma is some spice, yeast, light malt. Taste is spice/pepper, yeast. Light malt, some copper @ the finish.


 UnsofistaCat (212), Garden City, Michigan, USA
1.2 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
3/102/51/103/53/20
Jul 11, 2008    Updated: Sep 29, 2008
I bought this hoping for a dry cold beer to drink in the summer by my grill. I ended up with nasty ass homebrew. Butterscotch popcorn. Diacetyl and bad bacon grease. Funky farm yard pig water. Despite all of this, I think I’ve had worse beer. Do I slightly like funky farm yard pig water? rerate: damn this is sour. drain pour.


 jeremyd365 (105), Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
2.7 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
5/103/56/103/510/20
Apr 8, 2008  
Poured a medium yellow in color with a medium head which dispersed quickly. Smelled nothing out of the ordinary. Its taste followed the smell and was a pretty ordinary blonde. This beer was average all around. It was quite drinkable, but taste-wise it doesn’t quite take you to flavor-country.


 Eyedrinkale (3111), Beer Town, New York, USA
2.3 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/103/53/102/57/20
Jan 15, 2008  
Sour orange/tangerine. Tastes like a mouthful of nickels. Coriander and orange peel.



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