Kern River Isabella Blonde

Brewed by Kern River Brewing
Style: Golden Ale/Blond Ale
Kernville, California USA

6-25-08 bottle
This must be infected - because it all around just isn’t "right". Foggy orange yellow with a nice head. Smell is chalky sweet dust with a weird tartness in there. Flavor is overpowered by the insanely carbonated palate. Not good.

Bonus bottle courtesy of Odeed. Thanks!
Pours all head and almost zero beer and there is something clearly wrong. Smell is tart and honey like malt. Taste is, well, I can’t taste anything because what little isn’t already head, turns into foam the second it hits my mouth. Incredibly overcarbonated, but seems like it would have been a nice blonde otherwise.

bottle from irishboy: pours with a slight haze that is a golden colour with lots of tiney bubbles. the head is a big white and foamy. aroama is very lite not much to it at all, slight sweet malt and some cereal grains. flavour is a grainy with very littel hops and malt.

22oz bottle acquired in trade with odeed (thanks!). Poured a medium golden color with a small sized whit head. Aromas of grains and wet hay. Almoast wheaty. Tastes of grains with a trade of citrus. Thinner body.

Tasted at the February Northern California Beer Tasting. This blonde ale pours a medium yellow gold color from a 22oz bottle. Small to medium sized white foamy head. The aroma is grassy and a touch floral. A light to medium bodied blonde ale. It really is a lawn mover beer, not a lot of flavor and unfortunately not a lot of carbonation. It is your prototypical brewpub blonde, slightly sweet and a touch grassy without a lot of hoppiness. Mouthfeel is a touch thin. Finish is crisp and clean. Aftertaste is slightly bitter.

Hazed gold, thin white fizzy head. Nose held soft notes of grainy biscuit and touches of citrus. Light citric bitterness from start to finish. Light bodied and thin, soft carbonation, dry bitter finish. Not sure of the point on this one. Thanks for sharing, kmweaver!

(22oz bottle, thanks kmweaver) Cloudy amber body with small white head. Aroma is moderately sweet, honey, some floral, dandelion. Taste is medium sweet, orange, some cereal. Watery light-medium body with light creaminess and low carbonation.

Pours a medium hazy golden orange. Nose of clean and mild hay, some cracked grains, some bread, with some faint doughy yeast notes as well. Wet and oily up front, slick and highly viscous but not thick or chewy. There’s a flavor of sour or moldy stewed grains, some salty dissolved crackers and a musky wheat flavor as well, drying in the finish, not really doing much for the senses, overall it ends up quite boring, flavorless and simple.