Carolina Blonde

Brewed by Carolina Beer Company
Style: Pilsener
Mooresville, North Carolina USA

This was a bit disappointing for me. It pours a nice deep golden into the glass, with no head nor lacing. The nose almost doesn’t exist, possibly some wheat whiffs now and again.... The bottle says a "pils" style... this is not very indicative of it. The body is quite thin, and the mouthfeel is watery. The flavors start with a tiny bit of wheat, maybe a hint of strawberry. The mid-palate almost doesn’t exist (lack of body), then a mediocre hop contingency tries for the back-palate at the end of the pull. The finish is a light boring bitter (sort of), and overall, I was really hoping for better than "middle-of-the-road".

Not bad, good flavour, nice thirst quenching beverage, lacks body and depth and wow factor. It’s basically a good beer, a slight step up from a traditional lager simply because it holds more bite, but nothing too special.

I have mixed feelings about this beer. On the upside, it was a present from Kim & Kelly when the came to visit, and I had a great time that night. On the downside, it wasn’t all that great going down and it was really bad on the way back up.

Golden bubbly appearance with a weak aroma (at least I didn’t pick much up). The lacing, however, was decent during consumption. The flavor was of citrus, light esters, and pale malts. The finish had some light grassiness in it and the honey flavors picked up mid-glass. The mouthfeel was obviously light. Not bad, but not outstanding. On par for a fairly boring style.

on tap-pours an offwhite head with gold color. Aroma is grain, grassy. Taste is grain, grassy, yeast. Light body.

Bottle thanks to Sumdog. Poured a clear straw yellow with a rather well-retained cap of white head. Nose was primarily of grass and yeasty notes with corn husk and faint hints of honey and other sweet malts. Corn stole the show in the flavor, but was strangely pleasant... graininess and grassy hops filled it out. Quite lightly-bodied, but not watery. Nothing remotely exciting or offensive here. Would certainly work for a lawnmower beer.

Tasty and grain-tasting. But it’s a blonde! Hey, everyone loves a blonde. Beer. Right. Charlotte airport, over a burger between flights. Lovely beer, bounces off the mouth, but oddly, probably not a session beer.

Draught pint at Fiddler’s Crab restaurant in Savannah, GA. Clear gold with just a touch of diminishing head....faint buttery-grassy aroma, not really diacetyl heavy butter but more like real butterscotch-toffee-caramel, reasonably fresh and light but rather dull....body is quite grainy, moderately sweet with touches of honey and corn sugar and very light grassy hop hints towards the finish....traces of nutmeg and eggnog as it warms further. Not too bad but wholly unmemorable.