Pike Naughty Nellies Ale

On tap at Pike in Seattle. Pours a clear gold color. Aroma of sweet malt and bread with some floral. Flavor was bready and pasty, with a bit of apple and flowers. Just ok.

pours a medium gold with a light fluff head ... decent lacing. gave susan a hot bottle ... nice hop presence .. had with scoobs "survivor women" ... drinkable like a cardinal picking out an eagles eye socket!

Pours a light hazy golden orange with a light foam head and some lace. Fresh hop aroma - quite nice! Bland blonde taste, slightly sour, very bitter. Good carbonation, thin crisp body. Not bad - reminds me a bit of Stella Artois.

12/10/08 from the bottle. Aroma is strangely almost identical to Honey Nut Cheerios, dominated by caramel and light noble hops. Appearance is slightly hazy yellow with a medium maintained white head. Flavor is sweet candilike malt forward with a grainy but light bittering. Mouthfeel is also slightly grainy. Overall, simple but somehow not easy drinking.

This golden ale poured with a fluffy white head and a fruity aroma. The yeast is prominent in the flavor, producing various fruit flavors and leaving a thick bitter taste on the palate.

Gold in color with a small off-white head. Aroma is of light hops. Taste is of light hops and malt.

en pike brewery con sici, parte de un sampler de siete birrias. pike’s market es increible, las patas de king crab inmensas. se come bien en seattle. esta es bastante suave. talvez despues de haber probado tanta buena birria ya no impresiona.

A vigorous pour produces a frothy, three-finger thick, pale, off-white colored head in my 25cl tulip glass. The beer is a nice gold hue that shows an almost brilliantly clear, full gold color when held up to the light. The aroma has a sweet grain note to it up front, a touch of grassy grain, a solid cracker-like maltiness and a finish that has a touch of spicy hop character, though only just.

Fairly dry tasting, but there is a touch of grain sweetness here. Mostly the malt provides a grassy grain character with a touch of cracker like malt dryness. The beer finishes with a nice, though soft, biting hop bitterness that serves to further dry out the palate. This beer is pretty crisp, though not like a lager as there is a touch of fruity esters here that help to round things out and provide touches of pear. The hop character is much more evident than in the aroma, though it is about balanced with the malt character. The malt is more noticeable at the front of each sip while the finish is dominated by herbal, slightly pine-like hop flavors and bitterness. This has a nice soft heft to it, is eminently quaffable and has a nice textural offset between prickly carbonation and velvety malt.

This is a nicely made example of a Blond Ale; this isn’t aggressive, but the flavor is well balanced and without flaws and it has just enough character to keep me interested. This would be a solid hot weather beer, and to be honest, I am enjoying this quite a bit more than I expected to.

Purchased: Liquid Solutions