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Cariboo Blonde
Pacific Western Brewing Company
- From:
- Pacific Western Brewing Company
- British Columbia, Canada
- Style:
- American Blonde Ale
- ABV:
- 5.5%
- Score:
- 82
- Avg:
- 3.39 | pDev: 17.4%
- Reviews:
- 3
- Ratings:
- Status:
- Active
- Rated:
- Feb 14, 2022
- Added:
- Jan 12, 2015
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 2
No description / notes.
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Ratings by biboergosum:
Reviewed by biboergosum from Canada (AB)
3.57/5 rDev +5.3%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.5
3.57/5 rDev +5.3%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.5
355ml can, an innocuous new arrival in the economy beer sections of Alberta liquor stores, it would seem.
This beer pours a clear, pale golden yellow colour, with three fingers of puffy, loosely foamy, and fairly bubbly bone-white head, which leaves some chunky mesa formation lace around the glass as it slowly recedes.
It smells of bready, doughy pale and corn-fed malt, a hard-water flintiness, an ethereal wan fruitiness, some middling earthy and slightly off-seeming yeast, and a mild weedy, leafy, and faintly skunky hoppiness. The taste is grainy, doughy pale malt, a softer cornbread sweetness, headier apple, pear, and white grape fruitiness than the nose might have let on, some redacted yeast, and a still understated earthy, weedy, and sort of dead leafy hop bitterness.
The carbonation is nice and fluffy in its gently rendered frothiness, the body an adequate medium weight for the style, and mostly smooth, nothing really kicking about, looking for trouble, as such. It finishes on the sweet side, but not overly so, as my palate isn't screaming out for a tongue scraping, just yet.
I gotta say, this obviously surprised me more than a little - or maybe it's my low opinion (forged from experience, mind you) of blonde beers of all stripes. Here, we have a simple malty, fruity, and just a wee bit hoppy affair, with nothing else really messing things up. Oh, and it's inexpensive, but not cheap, FWIW.
Nov 16, 2015This beer pours a clear, pale golden yellow colour, with three fingers of puffy, loosely foamy, and fairly bubbly bone-white head, which leaves some chunky mesa formation lace around the glass as it slowly recedes.
It smells of bready, doughy pale and corn-fed malt, a hard-water flintiness, an ethereal wan fruitiness, some middling earthy and slightly off-seeming yeast, and a mild weedy, leafy, and faintly skunky hoppiness. The taste is grainy, doughy pale malt, a softer cornbread sweetness, headier apple, pear, and white grape fruitiness than the nose might have let on, some redacted yeast, and a still understated earthy, weedy, and sort of dead leafy hop bitterness.
The carbonation is nice and fluffy in its gently rendered frothiness, the body an adequate medium weight for the style, and mostly smooth, nothing really kicking about, looking for trouble, as such. It finishes on the sweet side, but not overly so, as my palate isn't screaming out for a tongue scraping, just yet.
I gotta say, this obviously surprised me more than a little - or maybe it's my low opinion (forged from experience, mind you) of blonde beers of all stripes. Here, we have a simple malty, fruity, and just a wee bit hoppy affair, with nothing else really messing things up. Oh, and it's inexpensive, but not cheap, FWIW.
More User Ratings:
Rated by RajeshThapar
4.78/5 rDev +41%
look: 4 | smell: 4.75 | taste: 4.75 | feel: 5 | overall: 5
4.78/5 rDev +41%
look: 4 | smell: 4.75 | taste: 4.75 | feel: 5 | overall: 5
Loved the smell, taste.. Gives a sweet taste at the end. great
Feb 14, 2022Reviewed by altstadt from Canada (BC)
3.1/5 rDev -8.6%
look: 3 | smell: 3 | taste: 3 | feel: 2 | overall: 4
3.1/5 rDev -8.6%
look: 3 | smell: 3 | taste: 3 | feel: 2 | overall: 4
Clear golden color. Poured a medium height head that was very noisy as it dropped down to a patchy skiff after half a minute. Low flow of tiny bubbles and medium flow of large bubbles from the bottom of the glass. Left no lacing.
Light scents of malt, yeast, and vegetal hops. Slightly stronger than a mass market lager. Swirling the glass kicked up a light barnyard that disappeared after a couple of seconds.
Slightly sweet, light malt flavor. A little vegetal hops, and a touch of yeast. Slightly stronger than a mass market lager. The aftertaste increased the sweetness level with more malt. This faded down to a stronger hop flavor and a very mild bitter.
Light tongue tingling. Hardly any foaming. Quite thin.
The light barnyard scent was a bit of a surprise. Overall scent and flavor was a bit stronger than mass market lagers consumed by the jug in pubs all around the country. Wouldn't be out of place on a hot summer day as a thirst quencher.
Feb 02, 2021Light scents of malt, yeast, and vegetal hops. Slightly stronger than a mass market lager. Swirling the glass kicked up a light barnyard that disappeared after a couple of seconds.
Slightly sweet, light malt flavor. A little vegetal hops, and a touch of yeast. Slightly stronger than a mass market lager. The aftertaste increased the sweetness level with more malt. This faded down to a stronger hop flavor and a very mild bitter.
Light tongue tingling. Hardly any foaming. Quite thin.
The light barnyard scent was a bit of a surprise. Overall scent and flavor was a bit stronger than mass market lagers consumed by the jug in pubs all around the country. Wouldn't be out of place on a hot summer day as a thirst quencher.
Reviewed by Hat_Fulla_Beer from Canada (AB)
3.5/5 rDev +3.2%
look: 3 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.5
3.5/5 rDev +3.2%
look: 3 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.5
355ml can poured into tulip.
Pours a clear straw yellow with half a finger of white head that leaves very occasional specks of lace as it quickly recedes.
Smells of light bready pale malt, faint orchard fruit and mild green hops.
Tastes of more white bread pale malt, faint dry apple and more green hop bitters.
Feels lively and frothy. Light bodied with active carbonation. Finishes mildly sweet.
Verdict: Recommended. For the price, you could very easily do a hell of a lot worse.
Jan 25, 2016Pours a clear straw yellow with half a finger of white head that leaves very occasional specks of lace as it quickly recedes.
Smells of light bready pale malt, faint orchard fruit and mild green hops.
Tastes of more white bread pale malt, faint dry apple and more green hop bitters.
Feels lively and frothy. Light bodied with active carbonation. Finishes mildly sweet.
Verdict: Recommended. For the price, you could very easily do a hell of a lot worse.
Rated by BcCraft710 from Canada (BC)
2.79/5 rDev -17.7%
look: 2.75 | smell: 2.5 | taste: 3 | feel: 2.75 | overall: 2.75
2.79/5 rDev -17.7%
look: 2.75 | smell: 2.5 | taste: 3 | feel: 2.75 | overall: 2.75
Would rate it a little higher, the price is right and it's actually a semi decent blonde. However I have recently had a few bad ones
Jan 14, 2015
Cariboo Blonde from Pacific Western Brewing Company
Beer rating:
82 out of
100 with
10 ratings
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