Azalea Coast Fokker Ale

Brewed by Azalea Coast Brewing Company
Style: Golden Ale/Blond Ale
Wilmington, North Carolina USA

Bomber. Awesome looking bottle with a great, simple design of a 50’s style Marilyn Monroe looking girl. The beer’s a golden copper color, clear, big soapy head that disappears quickly. Very sour, lemony nose with some nice bready malts. I get a hint of sourdough bread, lemons, and sharp carbonation. This brew comes across more like a thin Belgian dubbel than what you’d expect out of a small brewery’s attempt at a usually boring, watery style. This is the best golden or blonde I’ve had to date.

650ml bottle. Pours a dark gold with a thin white head. Aroma is of flowers and a hint of blueberry. Taste follows aroma with a hoppy finish. Thin mouthfeel with a balanced palate. It would be easy to drink a lot of these. 5.36% ABV.

Pours a clear straw gold, with a decent fluffy white head. Decent hop aroma, pretty crisp and sharp, with some citrus fruit as well. The flavor was also nicely hopped, mild sharp bitterness with some grapefruit flavors. Nice, easy drinking blonde, with some flavor to it. Good session or football drinking brew.

22oz bottle from TJ’s. Been passing on this for a while but decided I wanted a little something after a few drinks at the bars. Probably should have waited for a more sober time to drink this as I wasn’t really into it last night, but I did save some for the morning to remind my palate. Pours a hazy golden orange with a small white head. Nose is lemons, oranges, bready malts, and wheat. Flavor has a lot of citrus and lemons and a distinct tartness for sure but also has a distinct bready malt character that is more evident in the mouthfeel. Must admit this beer is more interesting than I expected. A nice surprise from Azalea. And I probably would never have tried it if it wasn’t for ratebeer. So that says something about why I rate.

Bottle from Sams in Durham. Hazy gold pour with an off white head. Yeast, esters, crystal malts, and grapefruit.

From a 22 oz. bomber shared with several people. Poured a hazy yellow/gold with a medium white head. Very citrusy aroma with a little graininess in the background. LIght body and medium carbonation with a clean, crisp mouthfeel. Flavor has some light toffee, and there is a subtle citrus based sourness, and finally the lightest of bittering. Light, refreshing, and I thought there was some wheat malt in it, but apparently not.

on tap @HopfestNC-pours a white head and yellow color. Aroma is sweet grain, musty. Taste is sweet grain, musty.

Smells sweet and fruity, and tastes of malts, wheat, and fruityness. Not to bad, It cheap and good!