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Thomas Hooker Blonde Ale 2.85 98

Thomas Hooker Blonde Ale

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RatingsAverageScoreABVStyle PctlServe in
982.86/5.02.85/5.05%53Footed Pilsner, Lager glass
Commercial Description:
This lighter style brew is a brilliant gold, clean cream ale. Fermented at lower temperatures for a smooth flavor that comes from the perfect balance of subtle malt sweetness and delicate English and American hop crispness. Very flavorful and drinkable.
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 kp (8500), Woodstock, Georgia, USA
2.7 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/103/55/103/510/20
Sep 1, 2007  
Date: 09/07/2005
Mode: Bottle
Source: Tasting

yellow with a chill haze, scant head, sweet sugary aroma with a hint of floral hops, nice sweet malt flavor, just a touch of bitterness, everyone enjoys a blond hooker

Aroma: 6/10; Appearance: 5/10; Flavor: 5/10; Palate: 5/10; Overall: 10/20
Rating: 2.7/5.0
Score: *4
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 argo0 (7006), Washington DC, USA
1.9 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
5/103/53/102/56/20
Jan 16, 2006  
(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.


 jcwattsrugger (5581), Florida and, New Jersey, USA
2.4 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
5/102/55/103/59/20
Sep 26, 2007  
12 oz bottle-pours a foamy dissipating white head and yellow gold color. Aroma is grain/corn sweetness, musty/husky. Taste is grain/corn sweetness, musty/husky, secondary light hops bite. A decent macro style. OK carbonation.


 MartinT (5075), Montreal, Quebec, Canada
3 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/103/56/103/512/20
Jul 8, 2009  
My Bottom Line:
This storyless Cream Ale relies on its biscuity toasted malts to supply a clean and very drinkable session.

Further Personal Perceptions:
-A sheet of foam dwindles into the clear golden.
-The finish was rather empty.
-The ghost of a few hops passed by midway through the sip, methinks.
-A mineral touch seems to accompany the prickly carbonation.
-The body is well rounded, with a penchant for buttery creaminess.

Bottle.


 Cletus (5059), Connecticut, USA
3.3 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/103/56/103/514/20
Jun 2, 2005  
Pours gold with a thin filmy head that doesn’t stick around very long. Smell is on the fruity side. Taste is bitter sweet with grapefruit rinds shining through on the finish.


 JoeMcPhee (5030), Jackson Heights, New York, USA
2.4 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
5/102/55/102/510/20
Aug 15, 2007  
12 oz bottle. Pale golden beer, thin white head. Very faint aroma with a soft pale maltiness and little else. Light toast and a hint of lemon. Light wheat and a very subtle earthy/herbal hop flavour. Meh... these guys can do so much better.


 DocLock (4648), Lower Pottsgrove, Pennsylvania, USA
3.2 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/103/57/103/513/20
Apr 28, 2006  
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.


 muzzlehatch (4427), Burlington, Vermont, USA
2.6 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
5/102/56/103/510/20
Mar 10, 2003  
Smallish but present foam cap; very light weak golden color. Nice lemony nose is also on the weak side. Creamy body, rather old and yeasty and cobwebby, not terribly fresh .. is this what they think a Belgian ale is supposed to taste like? Think again folks.



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