Mendocino Blue Heron Pale Ale

Blue Heron Pale Ale is a delightful, medium bodied smooth ale, with a distinctive crisp mouth-feel and a fresh hoppy finish. It is brewed using premium two-row Pale malted barley, generous amounts of both Cluster bittering hops and Cascade finishing hops and our own special proprietary yeast strain. Blue Heron Pale Ale is "Bottle Conditioned."

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3.4 Really nice apa at Steve’s Super Bowl party. A go to every day drinker. I’ll try this again.

3.0 2oz sample at International Great Beer Expo (Meadowlands). Pours a golden color with a foamy off white head. Aroma of bready malts, and sweet citrus fruit. Taste is medicinal, grainy, earthy, with light citrus notes.

3.0 Bottle, from notes. Pours a clear golden color with a medium sized white head. The aroma is pale malts, bready, crackers and grainy, earthy and herbal hop profile with mild sweetness. Not great, but certainly drinkable.

2.9 355 ml bottle. Slightly unclear golden with a medium sized off-white head. Mild aroma of light malt and some citric fruit. Flavor is light malty, light citric fruit and low rather low bitterness. Medium body and a bit weak in aftertaste. A bit boring thirst quencher.

3.0 Bottle. Pours golden with an off-white head. Aroma of malt, fruitiness, some minty notes and biscuits. Flavor is sweet and malty with some fruitiness, pine, some floral notes and mint. Medium body, average carbonation.

3.0 Bottle 355ml @ Geokkjer Pours clear golden with a white head. Aroma has notes of malt, caramel and citrus. Taste is light to medium sweet and light to medium bitter. Body is medium, texture is thin to oily, carbonation is soft.

3.0 Bottle, 12oz. A more or less clear one, golden in color and with a dense, off-white head of moderate size. Some lacings. The aroma is lighlty citrusy, with some pale malts. Grass and some faint peppery notes too. It’s medium bodied and lighlty carbonated, with a pleasant but a bit low bitterness. Citrus peel, grass and a little touch of pale malts in the flavor. Citrusy, bitter finish. An easy drinkable one, but a bit boring. 131231

3.1 Bottle 12fl.oz. @ [ The Danish Summer Gathering, TSODRBSG13 ]. Clear medium yellow orange colour with a average, frothy, good lacing, mostly lasting, off-white head. Aroma is moderate malty, straw, moderate to heavy hoppy, grass. Flavour is moderate sweet and bitter with a average to long duration, wheat - bread. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft. [20130831]

3.0 From Voldby, Dk. Bottled, 011113. Golden with white head. Aroma of citrus and malt. Flavor with fruit and spices.

3.1 Bottle at TSODRBSG 13. golden colour with a white head. Aroma is fruit, malt, hop, grass. Flavour is sweet, malt, fruit, hop, grass. Medium body. Ordinary beer.

2.8 Bottle @ Danish Summer Gathering, 2013. yellow body with a small white head. grain, hops, malt, dust.

3.1 Pours a golden yellow with a small head that persists. Aroma is pine and slight citrus. Medium bodied. Finish is slightly metallic. Good session beer.

3.0 light sweet toasted aroma,amber, clear, white foam, light sweetness, lightly bitter, oily feel, fizzy, light bitter finish.

2.8 Golden coloured and clear. And has a white head, medium duration. Soft aroma, faint hops and some yeasty notes. Flavor is a mix of special yeasty notes and bitter hops, ok, but not especially good. Creamy dry texture.

3.0 Bottle @ Danish Summer Gathering, 2013. Pours clear yellow with a small white head. Fruit, grain, dust and peach. Some orange. Medium bodied. Faint hops.

3.7 Sampled @ RB Danish Summer Gathering 2013 day 2, Ulfborg. Bottle. Clear golden color, small white head. Smell and taste malts, lightly hops, decently bitter and lightly fruity. Medium body and carbonation.

2.9 Bottle. Clear golden with small off-white head. Aroma is malt, fruit, hop and caramel. Flavour is malt, caramel, fruit, medium sweet, hop and a little bitter.

3.0 Bottle @ TSODRBSG13, Ulfborg. Clear golden with a white head. Aroma is sweet, malty and moderate hoppy - grass. Flavor is medium sweet and moderate bitter. Dry and light bitter finish. 310813

3.1 Bottle @ Danish Ratebeer Summer Gathering. Nice head with good duration. Color is golden. Aroma and taste are malt, grass, straw, hops, flowers and grain.

2.7 bottle into glass, hazy dark orange pour with white head, weird malty appoma, taste is some citrus, not all that good.. but not offensive

2.8 12oz bottle, from Party Town. Mostly clear orange color. Minimal white head. Few loose bits of lace. More caramel malt -forward flavor, but it’s not too sweet. Satisfying amount of hop bitter, still. Lighter, kind of crisp carbonation. Lighter body. Just a light hint of spicy, citrusy hop. OK pale ale, not bad. Was good to wash a sandwich down with.

3.4 12 fl oz bottle. Pours hazy orange with a small white head. Aroma is overripe fruity and grapefruity. Bitter, herbal and dry grapefruity. Dry, fruity and bitter finish.

2.7 Bottle. Creamy white good mostly lasting head. Yellow colour. Light malty and moderate hoppy aroma. Light bitter flavor. Short light bitter finish. Oily palate. Boring.

2.9 Flaske: Pilsnergul let diset øl med et fint skumhoved. Duften er maltet med et strejf af humle. Øllen er ret kedelig men smagen er bestemt acceptabel bare ikke up to par.

2.7 Bottle. Low fluffy and quickly disappearing white head. Clear golden body. Soapy malt caramel aroma. Light bitter dusty dry malt caramel flavor with low carbonation and a short finish.

2.6 Pours a vibrant yellow color with a pale malt aroma. Taste is crisp and clean. A corn flavor throughout, with a hoppy aftertaste. A simple pale ale, with minimal complexity.

2.9 Bottle @ YNWA Beershop, Kolding. Pours clear yellow with a small, creamy white head. Aroma has sweet doughy malts, light cheese, mild pine. Medium carbonation, fine dry and quite creamy mouthfeel. Flavour is mild, resin, pine, light doughy.

3.5 Nice average pale good but not exciting. Fairly balanced with some good hop bitterness at the end.

2.6 Clean but not overly impressive. Caramel malt with grassy and citrus hops. Golden with a small off white cap. Bitter with decent balance. Medium light body with a bitter finish.

3.1 Bottle, 6er. Very straightforward classic style English pale. Good go to when you’re in the sticks and selection is limited.