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Mendocino Blue Heron Pale Ale 2.97 458

Mendocino Blue Heron Pale Ale

Percentile
43
overall

bottled
common

on tap
unknown

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RatingsAverageScoreABVStyle PctlServe in
4582.98/5.02.97/5.06.1%25.6Lager glass, Shaker
Commercial Description:
Blue Heron Pale Ale is a delightful, medium bodied smooth ale, with a distinctive crisp mouth-feel and a fresh hoppy finish. It is brewed using premium two-row Pale malted barley, generous amounts of both Cluster bittering hops and Cascade finishing hops and our own special proprietary yeast strain. Blue Heron Pale Ale is "Bottle Conditioned."
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 DanielBrown (1919), Birmingham (via Leicester), West Midlands, England
3.5 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/104/57/104/514/20
May 12, 2004  
Bottle from Vendome Liquor, North Hollywood, Los Angeles. Sunrise yellow, with a big white head and daffodil aroma. Very balanced and tasty pale ale. Light, spritzy and with a citrus mouthfeel and a sharp, bitter finish, with a real hops presence. Drinkable and refreshing, but with some depth. A good all-rounder.


 flutetokill (515), Fresno, California, USA
2.5 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
4/102/56/103/510/20
May 3, 2004  
Golden color with a ton of sediment and a medium off-white head. Light citrus and malt aroma. Strong grapefriut hops, ash and malt flavors. Highly carbonated.


 desurfer (1068), Pinellas Park, Florida, USA
3 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
4/102/57/104/513/20
Apr 17, 2004  
Light golden body with little head. Aroma was somewhat off, and due to this and the appearance I almost wrote it off. But then the flavor comes bursting with Cascade hops leading to a sweet and bitter finish. Nice surprise.


 axilla (962), New Providence, Pennsylvania, USA
3.3 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/103/57/103/513/20
Apr 17, 2004  
Very clean looking light gold color. Smells very doughy. Also a nice cascade hop aroma. Very good hop bitter flavor with a slight bready taste. Not a bad pale.


 BückDich (4856), McCall, Idaho, USA
3.3 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/103/57/103/513/20
Apr 15, 2004  
Yellow gold with large sticky white head & lacing. The aroma is nicely hoppy & full aroma'd (cascade?). The flavor is a little tart and astringent with a light bitterness along with a crisp malty note that waves as it passes by. Not too bad, much more flavorful than I was expecting.


 Skip (206), Indiana, USA
3.1 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/103/57/103/512/20
Apr 15, 2004  
Smells of Northern Brewer hops. Reasonably pleasant taste, but an astringent and unpleasant aftertaste. If there were some barley evident on the tongue, this would be attenuated. Tends to be cloudy, and is found brewed under license in Saratoga Springs, NY as well as from its California home. If fresh, California is preferred.


 Sham (1846), Seattle, Washington, USA
3.4 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/103/58/103/513/20
Apr 15, 2004  
Dark yellow, thin head and some sparce lacing. Pleasing hop aromas. Cascade or centennial hops. Citrus notes with some malts. Bitter hops join the fun in the flavors. Citrus is still hanging around as well. Nice, but a bit unbalanced as there was no malts really.


 Zeswaft (1000), Seattle, Washington, USA
3 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/103/56/103/512/20
Apr 13, 2004    Updated: Feb 8, 2006
Pretty standard pale ale. with all the hoppiness and stuff. nothing to get hung about. strawberry fields for ever.



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