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Beach Bum Blonde Ale

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RatingsAverageScoreSeasonalABVStyle PctlServe in
2582.21/5.02.22/5.0Summer5.4%3.8English pint, Shaker
Commercial Description:
Beach Bum is an all-malt American blonde ale, which draws its deep golden color from the finest pale and caramel roasted barley malts. This beer is dry hopped with the choicest imported Alsace and Hallertau hops as well as Cascade hops from the Pacific Northwest, which lend to its pleasant hop aroma and its slightly spicy and fruity taste.
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 BeerFanDan17 (621), Land O Lakes, Florida, USA
2.1 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
4/103/54/102/58/20
Jun 15, 2009  
Average blonde ale. A bit watered down, but better than most AB products. Smooth texture and nice caramel presence.


 fidelis83 (724), Clinton, Iowa, USA
1 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
3/102/51/101/53/20
Jun 13, 2009  
Pours pale goldish yellow with a 2 finger, chunky white head. Aroma is full of soap, a little caramel, butterscotch, leafy hops, glycerin soap fruitiness and a hint of citrus, very strange aroma. Flavor is sweet malt, gross planty notes, more glycerin soap (this time more "spring forest" like), some medicinal notes, a little artificial caramel flavor. Finish is sweet barley, dried corn, a little bitter and lots of leafy hops. Palate is thin slightly slick on the entry and dry to finish, it’s very highly carbonated, but not enough to hide the horrible flavor. This stuff is gross, I wasn’t expecting much, but.... what a friggin mess.


 Sparky27 (1596), Phoenix, Arizona, USA
2.1 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
4/103/54/102/58/20
May 27, 2009  
Bottle. Pours clear light gold with a 2 finger snow white head that leaves spotty lacing. The nose is sweet malt and faint hops. The taste is sweet malt and honey with light hops in the finish. Lighter mouthfeel. Meh, not the worst I’ve had.


 milljam (569), Norman, Oklahoma, USA
2.5 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
5/103/55/103/59/20
May 24, 2009  
And the crappy tradition continues of attempting to act like a microbrewery, and failing in the process. Some notes/flavors of caramel and malt, and a subtle hint of hops, but nothing more than that.


 ben4321 (1012), Rockville, Maryland, USA
1.6 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
4/101/53/102/56/20
May 12, 2009  
Overall Impression: Here’s the Blond version of the Bud "Let’s pretend we’re a micro brewery" weiser collection of crappy, fake craft brews.


 patrick767 (2033), fort wayne, Indiana, USA
2.3 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
4/103/55/102/59/20
Mar 28, 2009  
bottle - Pours clear yellow with a thin head that laces a little bit. It has a very light aroma of grainy malt with a touch of hops. The flavor is a bland, light, grainy malt and finishes just a little dry. It’s light bodied and watery. This one’s certainly better than a regular Bud and would be improved if quaffed on a hot day, but it’s still quite lacking.


 walleye (879), Sterling Heights, Michigan, USA
1.6 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
3/103/52/102/56/20
Mar 22, 2009  
Had this last summer my daughter bought for her self so I thought I would try it, sorry I did.


 j12601 (1298), Poughkeepsie, New York, USA
2.3 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
5/102/55/102/59/20
Mar 12, 2009  
On tap at Bacchus. Pours a clear light yellow with no head. Aroma is almost non-existent, save for a faint hint of citrus. Body is on the thin side, and crisp and devoid of flavor. Ends lightly and with a hint of grain and lemon. This reminded me of a beer seltzer, and it wasn’t until talking with the bartender after I had taken notes and scored it that I found out this was an AB product, along the lines of shocktop, blue moon, et al, and that explained a lot. It didn’t taste so much like beer, as it tasted like a beer flavored seltzer water.



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