Mendocino Blue Heron Pale Ale

Brewed by Mendocino Brewing Company
Style: American Pale Ale
Hopland, California USA

Nice light amber-copper color with little head. Good citrus and malt flavor with a medium body. Nice hops and a dry finish.

Citric hop and malt aroma. Flavor is hoppy with a light pale malt background and long dry bitter finish. Different from other pale ales I have had and fairly good. Decent buy for the money. $5.99 for a sixpack at Total Wine.

The 12 ounce bottle poured a clear light amber colored beverage with a small white fizzy head that was mostly diminishing but left some lacing on the glass. The aroma was lightly fruity with notes of citrus and a light bready malt character. The beer had a medium body accompanied by fairly lively carbonation and a dry texture. The flavor started off with a medium bitterness. It was rather tart and dry. The finish was medium to long during which the bitterness grew slightly.

Not much aroma and looks like a lager. The taste has some hohps, pretty constant throughout, with a very dry finish. Still, not real tasty. Another below avg. per the style beer from this brewery.

on tap-pours a white head that laces with yellow color. Aroma is grain. Taste is grain, light hops with a flat bite and flat bite finish. Good carbonation.

Not much aroma for a pale ale, but this is a solid pick for the price ($5.99/six pack at TJs). Crisp hops yield to a tasty, refreshing pale ale. Pretty floral, but not too hoppy.

Nose is grainy with some citrusy malts; Yellow-gold color with a tiny white head; Citrusy malt flaovor with some hop bitterness that lasts into the finish.

Clear gold with a white head. Malty, grainy aroma, some light citrus. Light citrus and pine flavors. Not bad, just not much there...