Mendocino Blue Heron Pale Ale

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

Pours clear golden with a small white head. Aroma has clean grainy malt and light spicy floral hops. Medium body with light sharp carbonation. Taste states with light caramel malt with spritzy hops and carbonation that combine to be tangy. Finish has very crisp hops with a slight hint of cinnamon. Nice easy drinking pale ale.

Tasting at Immy’s. Yellow pour with white head. Nose is sweet malts and light hops. Flavor follows nose and has a bit of corn.

From Immy’s Tasting. Couldn’t remember if I had rated this one, definitely remembered having had it before. Thanks to The_Beer_God for advising me to go ahead and do a rating, as sure enough, I hadn’t ever bothered to rate this one. Medium pale yellow. Bitter citric aroma. Flavor citric, mostly grapefruit, and some pine. Light bodied. Not bad, but sort of so-so in a sense.

From Immy’s Tasting. Clear yellow color with a thin white head. Sweet grain aroma. Malty and grain flavor.

Pours a hazy golden with a white head that leaves no lacing. Smells hoppy, slightly acidic. Tastes mildly bitter, not as much as an IPA. Good beer all in all, but not one of the "Greats"

bottle. Pours hazy gold, thin white head. Aromas of sweet caramel, some citric hop. Taste is interesting to be nice. I get a tabacco, roasted malt type taste and bitterness in the finish. Thin mouthfeel, moderate carbonation. I don’t really care for this much.

On tap at Olde Saratoga Brewing Co. Pours yellow and clear. Thin mouthfeel with hollow flavour. It’s almost like a light Pale Ale, which is rather confusing. I didn’t actually have it off the tap, the keg was out and they opened a 12oz for me to try. Much appreciated.

[Bottled at East End Brewery, Quarry Bay, Hong Kong] Cloudy amber. Evident peachy hop aroma. Medium sweet with clean mouthfeel and overly simplistic crystal malt character. Low-medium bitterness. Hop aromatic, but extremely shallow. All surface, no contents.