For beer drinkers, Guinness is synonymous with stouts. Drinking their Draught beer on tap is a rite of passage for novices who are looking to become more serious beer drinkers. When I first heard that Guinness ventured into brewing a blonde lager, I was both excited and skeptical to try the beer. The variety of beers that I have had from the Guinness brewery have been superb, but they were also exclusively stouts. Nevertheless, I was intrigued when a friend of mine purchased the beer and asked to try it out.
Although the beer was well-chilled, the taste was not immediately discernible. Perhaps the beers I had previously imbibed affected my abilities to properly assess the beer, but one thing I was able to observe was that it was not a bad beer at all. As I kept drinking, the beer's overall taste became easier to identify, and each sip was met with the skunky taste/smell typically found in lagers. With an even 5% ABV, Guinness Blonde is comparatively weaker than the other beers I have reviewed, and not as flavorful either. There is a sweetness to the beer's flavor, but ultimately its taste (which include traces of lemon and malty flavors) never truly stand out.
As far as lagers go, this is a touch above some of the more well-known brands in the beer market, e.g. Budweiser. Unfortunately, there are as many areas where the beer lacks as it excels.
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