Oggis California Gold Blonde Ale

Brewed by Left Coast/Oggis Pizza and Brewing Company
Style: Cream Ale
Del Mar, California USA

light pee yellow w/ a tiny white head & visable carbonation. Light lemon zest & a tiny sweet note in a barley there aroma.palate is well carbonated and coats pretty well. Flavor is grain light bannana and some very weak malt w/ a lemon pledge finish. Overal Blah

Pours to a light clear goldish straw colored body with a white head. The aroma is your typical cream ale. Creamed wheat/grains. Kinda similar to New Glarus Spotted Cow. The flavor is creamy toffee, lightly husky. Honestly, not as bad as it is rating... Very drinkable. The palate is medium-light bodied.

Brewed & sampled on tap at Oggi’s Scottsdale, AZ
This beer is a brilliantly clear, pale straw-gold color, it is topped by a frothy, white head that just barely rings the sides of the glass. The aroma has some slight herbal notes, some grassy grain notes and a sort of green-grape fruitiness.

The beer finishes with a creamy mouthfeel to it. This is accompanied by a lingering grain-like note. The beer is lightly sharp up front with a bit of spicy hop character and a biting note that is a combination of carbonation and hop bitterness. The beer is quite thin overall, which makes it quite refreshing. I could see myself drinking a couple of these on a hot day. This is a pretty standard example of a Blonde ale, definitely a step up from the BMC crowd. This is actually a pretty solid Blonde, but alas it is really not by bag.

Draft. Clear gold color, light head and no lacing. Nose is extremely light with barely visable hops. Light tinny flavor, moderately palateable with husky flavor. Thin and watery.

Draft. Straw golden color, thin film of white head. Sweet grainy aroma. Clean grain, tinge of citric sweetness. Faint residual bitterness in the finish. Mouthfeel is light, somewhat watery.

This beer poured a pale yellow color w/ a slight haze; slight head and lacing. The aroma had very light citrus, light fruit and it was dry to the nose. The flavor had a slight buttery-ness, citrus, and muskiness. The mouthfeel was light w/ no carbonation. Now, I must add that this beer was a cask ale that was dry-hopped. Not very impressive.

Pale yellow in color and with a taste to match. Not bad, but nothing big, special or otherwise standout about this beer. Great for the friend who tags along and has no idea about beer or thinks they don’t like beer.

Draft at Oggi’s Santee. Poured blonde yellow. Nice head that left pretty good lacing. Very Clear Very Fresh. Aromas of yeast and not much else. Flavors were about the same. Some slight hoppiness on the finish but again nothing to get too excited about. Not too bad if you WANT to drink something that is plain and easy to drink.