Odd Side Ales Bean Flicker: Coffee Blonde
Looks can be deceiving! This satisfying simulation of self exploration is sure to surprise your pallet. It’s an extremely smooth sessionable coffee blonde. So light a candle and enjoy the adventure this beer has to offer.
3.6
176 reviews
Grand Haven, United States
Community reviews
Pours translucent apricot with a thick, creamy ivory head. Aroma yields sweet chocolate, coffee and fresh malt notes. Flavor features coffee, chocolate and malty notes, unusual. Texture offers good body and fizz. Flick that bean!
hey this is pretty cool. its like dank vaporous grassy greens mixed with sugary coffee notes. huh
On nitro. Thick vanilla head with mild hop aroma. Super smooth with a coffee milkshake flavor. Always surprising that it has so much coffee flavor in a blonde ale.
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Pale yellow with a quickly dissipating foamy white head. Vanilla and a slight coffee/brew taste. Refreshing, but with substance. Very smooth. Reminds me of a vanilla flavor cigar. Every so often I have a craving for this beer.
Near clear dark golden from the bottle. I'll admit this name cracked me up. Very coffee forward nose. Crisp light body, with a flavor of sweet malt and mocha. Pretty kewl.
12 ounce can. Golden with just a little white haze. Plenty of rising carbonation. A white head. A coffee and sweet sugary malts aroma. Flavor begins with the sweet malts and coffee but then shifts to grass and sulfur. And then back to the coffee and malts but with fruit.
Keg @ HopCat, Ann Arbor. Deep golden pour with a tiny head. Really coffee-forward nose. Some mellow cream. Mild floral accents. Nice coffee flavor's. Lightly forks and zippy. Soft accents of chocolate. Some jasmine. Medium body, bright carb. Good coffee blonde.
12 oz can pours a cloudy golden color with a large white head that lastes and leaves clumps of lacing. Aroma has cocoa, vanilla, coffee, and cream. Taste is initially sweet with a bitter finish. Body is medium with average carbonation and a smooth mouthfeel. Easily drinkable, and quite enjoyable. Looks like a blonde Ale but tastes like a sweet stout or a porter.
12 oz bottle from a grocery store in upper Michigan. Aroma is coffee, skunk, vanilla, cocoa. Pours slightly hazy golden with a medium white head with decent retention. Taste is lightly sweet with flavors of coffee, green bell pepper, lotion. Finishes with a light dry bitterness. Interesting and tasty; the off notes are easy to look past.
Can. Looks like a blonde ale but the first taste is chocolaty coffee, so odd. Yas, if I closed my eyes I would be imagining a black chocolate flavored stout. So, light a few candles, turn down the lights and put on some easy listening music and then enjoy the chocolate this beer has to offer, you need not look at the color of the beer.
12floz can without a freshness marker, ~$1.75 unit cost, poured into a pint glass where it appears a somewhat cloudy straw color with a soft white head. Smells like milk chocolate, and initial taste does too with a hint of coffee. Very light, refreshing, and has a smooth cereal grain finish (much like actual breakfast cereal). Quite the impressive coffee golden ale.
5oz pour at ABV Social. Pours a pale golden with a white head leaving streaky lace. Sweet roasty nose, with some cocoa. Taste is sweet fruits, cafe au lait, light yeast. The fruit & yeast lead. Light and sweet, solid & not boring for a low abv offering.12.8
Tap at brewery in grand haven during glbtq. Gold with medium white head. Heavy coffee aroma. Coffee subtle in flavor. Really nice body and roundness. Very smooth. Sweet grain taste balances the coffee softness. Surprising, especially for the mouthfeel. Very good.
Clear golden and light copper coloured body with a nice, thick and soapy head, about five centimetres tall, off-white in colour. Aroma of coffee, cardboard, malt, vanilla, a touch of alcohol and a ton more coffee - very nice and incredibly fragrant. Light to Medium-bodied; Assertive deep coffee flavours with touches of chocolate, spice and a lot of grassy and herbal malts and a little hop kick noticeable near the end. Aftertaste shows the coffee, chocolate and hints of roast with a little bitterness from the hops playing out. Overall, a nice and incredibly complex coffee flavour for such a light beer without any roasting of the malt here - deep and strong, while still being lightish and easy enough to drink in the summer. Good to try if you can find it and/or lug it back home! I sampled this twelve ounce bottle purchased from Merchant’s in Dearborn, Michigan on 25-July-2015 for US$1,99 sampled at home in Washington on 21-May-2017.
Ok this is good stuff. Must get to 75 characters. Glen Haven brewery LOL - deceptively flavored with these dark beer flavors
12 ounce can at home bought at lizardville in Copley Ohio. Part of The Winking Lizard. Has aroma of chocolate and I was expecting coffee. Blond in color and hazy. Had bigger white head. Chocolate notes during tasting Very smooth. No after bite. Kind of light and very enjoyable on this warm day. Very nice surprise, and very drinkable!
Bottle. Golden pour, lively beer. Aroma of coffee, vanilla, malt and cream. Taste has sweet creamy coffee, vanilla, malt, candisugar and yeast. Nice stuff.
Sample at Bridge Street Tap Room. This beer pours a clear pale golden color with a medium white head that dissipates steadily to an outer ring. Short stringy lacing. Roast coffee, malt and hops in the nose. Light-bodied with a roasty coffee and malt character, with slight hops in the background. The finish is vanilla coffee and malt. Decent overall.
Pours golden with a white head. Aroma and taste are coffee, very nice coffee
On tap at Hopcat. Toasty coffee aroma with straw coloring. Full bodied coffee taste. Super surprising considering the color. Great beer.
WOW...wakes up the brain. The aroma is excellent and quite surprising. Mixing the coffee with a pale ale is kind of confusing in a good way.
Tap at Pyramid Scheme. Slight hazy light golden with white head. Soft malts, quite some vanilla, light roasted coffee touch, fresh grain and bread crust. Light sweet and bitter.
Medium bodied. Bit too much vanilla and coffee maybe, a bit one dimensional.
Couple of
Cans with Ryan in Muskegon. Strange mix
Of coffee and dark with a golden ale. Not great but passable. They have other, better brews.
(En fût à Sport Shotz Detroit Airport): Un mélange plutôt efficace de céréales craquants, légèrement acidulées et d’un voile de torréfaction. Finale peu amère mais juteuse. Un liquide peu complexe mais bien exécuté.
Aroma is citrus, malts, fruit and very funky. The flavor is malts, coffee, fruit, earthy, spices and a funky/sweetish finish.
Bottled. Pours hazy blonde, white head. Aroma is coffee and chocolate, some wheat. Flavor is coffee, vanilla, white chocolate. Nice. Blonde ale with coffee. Well done.
12oz tulip at HopCat Detroit pours a clear gold lacing white head. Nose is nice with coffee and cream, candlewax, vanilla. Flavor is sweet with coffee and cream, some corn, floral, vanilla. Dry finish. So drinkable.
Orange pour from draft at Merkles, white head. Has a cream and coffee aroma, taste doesn’t follow the appearance in my opinion. Has a coffee and lager flavor, it is easy to drink but not sure I’d order it up again. Worth a try though.
This is kinda a novelty but drinkable at least. It’s cloudy pale golden w/ a long lasting head of medium bubbles. It smells sort of grassy and hoppy, mildly grainy, but tastes mostly of vanilla w/ a hint of coffee. It has really brisk carbonation which seems to clash w/ the somewhat thick mouthfeel and the overall flavor. It finishes w/ roasty coffee bitterness and some lingering sweetness. This one is more about the added ingredients than the base beer, which is fine I suppose, but doesn’t really come together here.