Blue Ridge (MD) Golden Ale

Brewed by Wild Goose LLC (Flying Dog)
Style: Golden Ale/Blond Ale
Frederick, Maryland USA

Medium, off-white head atop a crystal clear, golden body. Aroma is medium sweet (honey), herbal. Taste is medium sweet, malty (nutty, light caramel), honey, fruity (white grape, light orange), light spicy hop finish. Watery light-medium body. Very drinkable.

Hazy, dark golden brew. Big, fluffy, white head. Honey, mead and citrus in the nose. Yeast as well. Nice, mellow, layers of honey and lemon. Hoppy, but not biting. A tart/tangy hoppiness. Medium-bodied with a watery mouthfeel and fizzy carbonation. Quick, clean finish! A very hearty blonde!

Pours gold with a white head. Smells of sweet malt, some wildflowers, perfumy. Tastes sweet and crisp with some fruity hints and a grassy finish.

A very light golden with faint, sweet malt & wheat in the nose bolstered a bit by some mild orange scents. The straw-colored body is crowned by a huge, fizzy head.... which departs rather quietly and quickly. This is very light in the mouth, the liquid wanting to bubble up some more as you drink. The flavor is a light, sweet malt with some Wheaties and a splash of orange juice. It’s oddly refreshing, which is why I’m rating it higher than I initially thought I would after the first tastes.

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Pours dark gold with a nice head and lacing. Aroma of malt, honey, and slight hops. Tastes malty, sweet, with a honey, semi-sweet white wine taste. I don’t detect much hop taste. This one was impressive.

Bottle: Yep it’s golden with a small lasting head and good lace. The aroma has notes of pale and biscuity malts, floral hops, orange zest, and veggies. The taste starts citric and twangy with a very mild bitterness. Get a bit of pale malts throughout. A touch soapy on teh finish. The feel is watery and bland. Overall, it is better than most of the blonde ales out there, so give it a try.

This bottled brew poured a large sized frothy head of white colored mostly diminishing finely sized bubbles that left behind a very carbonated transparent but slightly hazy body. It had a malty bready floral aroma. The mouth feel was tingly and very bubbly causing it to foam up in my mouth as I tried to drink it. This made it very difficult to drink. Too bubbly. The crisp flavor was that of mild malts and mild hops.

Bottle. Large white fizzy head that mostly dissipated, fine-small sized bubbles, sparse lacing, carbonated, yeasty, hazy, and a straw yellow hue. Aroma was malty, sweet and somewhat skunky. Malty, sweet flavor that was not very impressive. Tingly palate.