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Dominion Blonde (Light)


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RatingsAverageScoreABVStyle PctlServe in
131.94/5.02.2/5.03.5%4.1English pint, Shaker
Commercial Description:
Dominion Blonde or Light is a clean, crisp, straw colored beer with remarkable flavor for a light beer. Whereas we use about 1,200 pounds of malted barley to make Dominion lager, we use only 950 pounds of Two-Row Pale, Munich and Carapils malts for a batch of Dominion Blonde. Less malt means less sugar for the yeast and consequently less alcohol in the beer. We use only German Hallertau hops. This beer is featured at the Thirsty Dog in Baltimore and Murphy's Pub in Arlington.
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 Travlr (727), Washington, Washington DC, USA
1.4 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
2/103/53/102/54/20
Jul 25, 2009  
Light on flavor, light on body, light on aroma, and light on finish. Don’t let your wallet get any lighter when this beer is around.


 fiulijn (7150), Como; Lausanne (CH); Malmö (SWE), Italy
2.1 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
3/102/55/102/59/20
Oct 18, 2008  
Draught at Old Dominion Brewhouse, Washington DC
Blond color. Aroma is almost absent. The flavor is light but it presents at least light crispy character. Weak final.


 DocLock (4648), Lower Pottsgrove, Pennsylvania, USA
1.6 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
3/101/53/102/57/20
Jul 22, 2008  
Draft at Greenleafe tavern. Very pale gold pour with aroma and flavors of pale malt, slight hopcitrus, and slight honey. Watery and rather bland.


 Ungstrup (15122), Frederiksberg, Denmark
1.1 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
2/101/53/101/54/20
Dec 10, 2006  
Draft at the brewpub, RBSG 2006. A light yellow beer with no head. The aroma is of corn - and quite weird and unpleasant - "light" beer aroma. The flavor is corn with plastic notes of hops, and a dry end - a very typical light beer flavor - and with a thin body.


 BückDich (4847), McCall, Idaho, USA
1.5 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
4/101/54/101/55/20
Oct 3, 2006  
Draught at Old Dominion for breakfast - RBSG DC 06 Pale yellow, no head or lacing. Nose of light malt and light fruit. See thin. It must have adjuncts. The flavor is lame, dry and slightly bitter. Finishes thin, watery. Light on calories and old style? wtf?


 TheBeerLover (1019), DC Metro Area, USA
3.5 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/104/57/104/514/20
Feb 3, 2006  
Draught only at the brewpub and select outlets. AKA Domion Light. This beer is Dominion Lager, but the grain bill calls for less malt, making it a lighter beer, but still a very tasty one. Dominion Light pours to a bright, golden color with a bright white head, and a good bit of carbonation. The nose on this beer is very nice with crisp pale malt aroma, and hints of grassy hop aroma. The palate is round and smooth, with crisp pale malt flavor on a clean body. Dominon Light finishes crisp and clean up front, then ends with a mild, grassy hop bitterness. An excellent session beer, one I enjoy as a "warm up" beer at the bar. Light beer isn’t my thing, but for a light beer? Good stuff.


 chriso (4796), London, Greater London, England
2.4 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
4/103/55/102/510/20
Dec 22, 2004  
Quite fresh and clean but, at the end of the day, it’s a light beer and there’s not really too much going on. Rather thin. If I didn’t know it was an ale, I’d have had it down as a pale lager. As Mike says, it made a good palate cleanser. On tap at the Dominion brewery.


 TheBeerGod (3150), Newport News, Virginia, USA
1.8 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
3/102/54/102/57/20
Dec 3, 2004  
Had this on draft at Dominion on 11/21/04. Yellow body. Nose is straw, grains, faint watery malt. Tastes like a better made BMC product; watery malt and grains. Thin bodied. Finishes the same. A weak effort from Dominion. It did serve one purpose though - we cleansed our palate with it between beers and food.



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