Nodding Head 700 Level

Brewed by Nodding Head Brewery
Style: Golden Ale/Blond Ale
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania USA

on tap-pours a creamy white head that laces and pale yellow color. Aroma is saaz hop, herbal, spruce? Taste is mild grain, mild saaz hops, herbal, spruce?. Good character light beer. OK/mild carbonation.

Maize-colored and bubbly. Sweet at first, then a burst of hop at the end. Good spring-time ale for the outdoors.

Poured a golden color with a medium sized, white head, that left nice lacing on the glass. Aroma of sweet malts, blueberries, and citrus. Taste, surprisingly had blueberries all over it, sweet malts, and a bitter citrus finish. Really, not as bad as the 700 level would lead you to believe.

Draught pint at Nodding Head on 1/19/07
Small white head fairly rapidly fades to partial cover/ring. No lacing left behind. Very high clarity and a warm gouda colored body (I get bored of saying brass/blonde/gold/bronze/copper).
Paperiness/acetyldehyde is immediately present in the nose. Grainy, very attenuated malts backed by a touch of light sourness are further apparent. On the end, and growing stronger with warming, are some fresh, though quite subtle, hops. Green and very herbal, it seems like it has more character than your typical saaz and is quite distinct. Can’t quite put my finger on it. Maybe something like hallertauer or brewers gold. A light spicy almost spearmint-like note is produced, and a touch of soft fruits (the blueberries that Egajdzis notes, perhaps) seem to come from the mix of yeast bi-product and hop. Medium-weak to weak strength of aroma overall, with no alcohol. The paperiness and grainy, near astringency needs to go.
Quite fruity in the mouth, with apples quite prominent. A bit of sweetness, actually, from the hops, followed by a dry straw-like flavor that is backed by large amounts of water. Some bitterness on the finish. Somewhat overdone carbonation keeps the malt apparency sparse and seems to highlight the paper/dry-apple flavors. Watery texture, no alcohol noted. The hops are interesting, if still somewhat underdone, but there’s no getting around the brewing flaws.

On tap at Nodding Head. Pours a translucent golden with a medium bubbly white head that laced. Aroma was fruity, floral, light hop notes, cereal grains. Flavor of noble hops, floral, light hop spciness, cereal grains and fruity.

Draught @ Brewery: No scent at all. Light golden color with sparkling. Good white head. Decent lacing. Tasted of corn. Slight hop finish. Crisp and clear. Better than many other American Gold Ales. Quite good for this stlye.

Clear yellow, clingy, filmy head. Sulphurous aroma. Chemical. Eggy, underbittered and starchy. Watery with a mild CO2 break. A kolsch/blonde ale that goes the wrong way - like Bohemian Pils often do.

Tap at the brewpub: Light golden pour with a dense pillowy white film of head. Fruity aroma- some esters and zesty grassy hops. The body is light and fluffy. Soft biscuity malt notes in the body with a touch of zesty hops. As it warms there’s a lemon zest hint. A decent session- nice and dry.