Tyranena Three Beaches Honey Blonde

Tonight's beer of choice is going to be the Three Beaches Honey Blonde Ale from Tyranena Brewing.  According to their website, this is a "Wisconsin version of the American Blonde Ale."  This beer is designed to taste like a day at the beach, light, bleached blonde, effervescent, free from bitterness.  I'm not sure I agree with this analogy......a day at the beach typically results in sand in my eyes/nose/ears, a sunburn, cut feet, and sticky oily sunscreen all over my body that didn't do it's job.  Hopefully this beer takes on Tyrnena's perspective of the beach!

This beer comes in a 12oz bottle with a label that depicts three beaches, er, women, in old style swimsuits.  It also notes that the beer is brewed with honey.  Pouring this into my ale glass, this beer pours a clear, bubbly straw-gold color with about an inch of white head.  The nose is full of adjuncts - corn meal and old wheat, fairly skunky.  There is a bit of honey sweetness and lemongrass that barely sneaks through.  The first sip brings a lot of corn and light malts.  If you search for it, you can find some honey in there, and just a hint of that lemon that was in the nose.  The body is light and the carbonation is very high.

Overall Rating:  (2.6 out of 6.0)  While this beer was light and drinkable, I was pretty disappointed with it.  It didn't have a whole lot of flavor, and there were a lot of off-flavors that reminded me of... Natty Light.  Tyranena missed the mark on this one, it's probably not something that I will pick up again.  

*Side Note*  During a recent vacation, I was flipping through the always-entertaining Sky Mall magazine, and came across this little gem.  A Garden Zombie!  Had to take a picture......

$89.95?  A steal if you ask me.