Thomas Hooker Blonde Ale

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

Kind of mild and bland yeast notes here. some citrus notes some almost peppery notes. Hops were mild at best. Just an okay brew.

Draft @ mendocino (old saratoga Ny) - Not much else to be said here, good blonde style beer. Goes down easy, very smooth. Flavor is citrusy with yeast but its very mild. Typical wheat beer.

(Bottle from Julio’s Liquors (MA)) Pours somewhat hazy pale orangish yellow with a small white head. Aroma somewhat citrusy. Mouthfeel light, refreshing. Flavor is mildly citrusy with some yeast presence. Finishes with a little citrusy zing. Seems like a wheat beer actually. Fair.

Hazy amber body with a small creamy white head. Sweet grainy aroma. Sweet malty flavor.

nice yellow color with a small white head. this smells like a wet dog. flavor is slightly hopped. this is probably the best cream ale i’ve tried. light, pale, boring, but refreshing. as long as you can get over the dog aroma.

this is a very simple plain - flavorless beer. I was very dissappointed with it. And its a ’cream ale’? HUH? IT’s forgetable and blah. I think I’m going to try to forget that I ever bought it.

12 oz bottle, shaker glass. Fairly deep and a touch hazy golden hue with a pisser of a thin, foamy white head that immediately vanishes. Bright caramel and pale malts at the forefront with touches of cereal and that sweet smell I get from creamed corn (minus any corn or vegetal nature). Flowery esters come through in both the hops and a touch of honey in the aroma. Pleasantly bready and caramely sweet up front in the flavor with a full creamy texture (first time I’ve actually gotten that out of a cream ale). Hops are ever so light at the beginning and compete with a light apple acidity for playing time. The finish maintains the creamy texture and the sweetness seems to shift to a pure pale malt contribution while the hops add a decent floral bite. Texture is creamy as mentioned before, but this never seems to thick for a sipping beer. Carbonation is lively but not overdone. Not a world-beater, but quite tasty and without any glaring flaws. I’m still amazed by the rich maltiness and creamy textures that T. Hooker seems to be able to produce in all of their beers.

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.