Stone Coast Sunsplash Golden Ale

Brewed by Sunday River Brewpub and Restaurant
Style: Golden Ale/Blond Ale
Bethel, Maine USA

Pours gold with a white head. Smells of some fruit, floral hops, dry pilsner malt. Tastes of toasted malt, some crisp hoppy notes and a floral finish.

20061007 After Kennett. Clear and pale gold. Big white head. Aroma it tinny and bretty, mineral, touch of bandaid. Flavor is mostly bland, mucho dry, seemingly infected. Late metallic notes and funk. Very thin and dry. Something I oddly enjoy with the flavor.

Can sampled. Pours a golden yellow with a off-white head. Aroma of lemon, grass, and some grain. Flavor follows the aroma and is malty with a hint of citrus.

12 oz Can - Poured a somewhat cloudy golden yellow in color with a big foamy white head that faded fairly quickly. Aroma was somewhat malty and skunked (from a can?). Flavor was not as malty as I anticipated and there was more hops than I expected too. Finish was mildly bitter and short... finished cleanly. Not real good...

poured into tulip. pours a clear gold, with mild white head. a fresh golden malty aroma, not too much hidden. smooth and clean golden ale, light finish. not complex but serves its purpose, a good light sessionable quality.

(draft) Clear straw body topped by white head. Aroma is medium sweet, lemon, biscuit. Taste is medium sweet, biscuit, light lemon. Light body.

12 ounce can from the Beverage Warehouse in Winooski, VT (July 2007) served at cellar temperature in a Samuel Smiths pint glass. Huge, creamy-foamy white head erupts from the can, slowly decaying about the very bright, lightly hazy golden body and leaving thin spidery lacing....honey-biscuity aroma, light floral-perfumy hops, a touch of jasmine and lavender and then on a second nosing, beautiful ripe apricots.....not nearly as entrancing upon tasting, however: very thin and watery, with pale malts barely distinguishable in the bitter, slightly burnt and somewhat chemical-adjuncty flavor profile; at the finish a fuesel plasticy quality dominates and the experience is basically ruined....light to moderate carbonation, some mineralic and metallic notes also evident at the finish. This brewery has been frustrating to me, a couple of very high quality beers and everything else quite mixed....this one I’ll try again based mostly on Clark’s rave, but for now it’s not worth it.

Light and fruity. Citrus, but not in a hoppy way. Reminds me a lot of the rind of a citrus fruit. A little bubble gum. Actually more bitter than I would have expected. Has some sort of harsheness that I can’t place. Really a strange beer that I can’t make up my mind on. It’s light and refreshing, but somehow that harshness prevents it from being an easy drinker.