Thomas Hooker Blonde Ale

Brewed by Thomas Hooker Brewing Company
Style: Cream Ale
Bloomfield, Connecticut USA

Thanks to jjpm74 for this one. The pour is hazy gold with smallish white head. Aroma of pale malt, cereal, some honey, sour fruit, and Razzles gum (there’s a blast from the past for you). The flavor is pale maltym, with some cereally honey, some hops. The palate is on the light side, and the complexity isn’t huge, but this is a cream ale/blonde ale, after all.

Extremely light and creamy, this one doesn’t have a lot going for it but isn’t trash either, despite the low ratings here. Fairly simple, slight hops and slight malt, a light fruit taste that reminded me of grapes. I could really see myself enjoying it on a summer afternoon.

Boring and bland. Slight hints of hop spiciness and fruitiness. More metallic than anything else. Hardly any malt. The best quality is an actual creamy texture, but this is only up front. Not much else to say about this, just a lame beer.

(12oz bottle) Lightly hazed apple juice body with small off-white head that dissipates rapidly. Aroma is medium sweet, bread/caramel, light icing, pear, dash of vanilla. Taste is medium sweet, bread, seltzer, some cereal/grain. Light-medium body. Very bland.

Pours a one-finger white head that goes quickly leaving no lace. Clear pale amber color. Light-medium carbonation and light bodied. No nose. Starts smooth and sweet, finish is mellow, there are traces of hops. This would be a good summer time beer. $1.85 for a 12oz bottle from Julio’s Liquors Westborough, Ma.

(12 oz bottle: Obtained in trade with goldtwins, thanks Larry!) Okay, so this is not a good looking beer. It pours a light golden color and somewhat hazy, but the head is nothing more than a whitish filmy layer that dissipates fully within 30 seconds. And without any carbonation bubbles rising through the beer, it looks still and lifeless. The aroma is sweet, bready and grainy and just so-so. But the flavor is less than so-so, that sweet, honey, bready graininess is unbroken by any hops or bitterness. The aftertaste is pretty awful, and I’m already sick and tired of drinking this after only five or six ounces. Body is light-medium, and the mouthfeel is tiring and just sits on the palate forever. Not a good beer.

Bottle. Hazy yellow hold pour. Very light malt aroma. Some light malts and hop flavors, some lemon,, a hint of dough. Crisp and clean.

Jax Beer and Wine - Atllanta, Ga - 12 oz bottle. Medium golden pour - absolutely no head. Faint, yeasty aroma with a spicy back end. Flavor is muted with some faint yeasty notes, a bit of a biscuity malty back end but finishes rather dusty. Pretty run of the mill.