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Barley Island: Sheet Metal Blonde
This witbier is/was brewed by Barley Island in Noblesville, Indiana, USA. It's achieved an overall score of 62.15%. Based on 1 tasting, the average ABV is 5.00%.
Historical Community Tasting Notes
Preserved from the RateBeer community archive (circa 2000–2018)
12 ounce bottle from Whole Foods Market Indianapolis. Pours a hazy golden with an explosive head. Not a gusher from the bottle thankfully but the rocky white head is so huge this is taking forever to pour. Aroma of bread, spice, butter, corn. The taste is almost champagne-like... grapes, apples, bread, spices. Tart finish. Doesnt smell great and an
[Bottle] Gusher! Pours a light golden color with a ton of head that lasts for a long time. Aroma is of grainy wheat, lemon and light yeast. Mild esters and light hops mix with cereal grains and grass in the taste. Light and fairly well balanced. OK overall. I thought this one may have been a bad bottle considering how it started, but the taste was
Aroma is wheat/malts, spices and orange/lemon. The flavor is wheat grain/malty along with a decent underlying fruit/spice flavor. Relatively light in body but with a witbier its expected, this was pretty good.
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Beer Listing
| Date and Time | Container | Pub/Place and Where | Strength ABV | Colour | Score Components | Score | Descriptive word(s) | Book No. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7th Oct 2012 at 8:35 pm | bottle | (room 316 in Holiday Inn Downtown Chicago hotel), Chicago, Illinois, USA | 5.00 | light golden and cloudy |
Taste: 91.76% Head: 88.89% Aroma: 72% Ease: 71.11% Clarity: 70% |
62.154% | vanilla-melon | 458 |
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Other Beers (etc.) by Barley Island
Apart from Sheet Metal Blonde, Hop Horizons lists 2 others by Barley Island. These are:
Barfly IPA Flat Top Wheat Ale