Kern River Isabella Blonde

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

(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.

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.

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.

Bottle from South Bay Drug. Pours orangey yellow with a one finger frothy off-white head. Aroma is a bit bready with fruity and grassy hop. Medium body with foamy carbonation. Flavor is lightly bready with some vegy/grassy hop bitter. Pretty drinkable, but it’s not your average IS.

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.

Bomber courtesy of Odeed poured a lightly hazy gold with a small dim inishing white head. Aromas of straw, earthiness, light spice and a hint of citrus. Palate was light bodied and crisp with a lightly dry finish. Flavors of straw, biscuit, light earthiness and hints of citrus and spice with a crisp lightly dry lingering lightly bitter finish. Would be a great session beer on a hot day!

Draft at the brewpub; Nose of light hops, caramel, and some wheaty breadiness; golden with a small white head; flavor shows light caramel, grain, and light hop bitterness in the light to medium body, with light hops lasting to the finish! Not a bad Blonde!

22oz bottle, courtesy of Odeed. Thanks, Jacob! Pours a hazy, golden-orange color; thin white head with patchy lacing. Light mineral and citrus bitterness in the aroma; quite dry; a touch of basic sugar. Slightly syrupy mouthfeel: relaxed carbonation; sugar and light mineral / citrus bitterness; not a lot here, and the drinkability suffers from the lingering sugar and the lack of carbonation. Light finish: toasty malts, some bread and mineral bitterness.