Flaming Damsel
That there is a red blonde, but I guess that's the gag. The dryad lady on the cover's got red hair. Back when I had hair, it was a particular shade of light red that old ladies called strawberry blonde. That's what this beer looks like, the color so delicate that even though it's unfiltered it's translucent. Smells more like a traditional blonde. Bitter, toasted grain with some light nodes of weeds and farm grass. Tastes really heavy, in spite of balanced carbonation and medium-thick body. The front is biscuit sweet, the middle is a tiny bit like wildflowers, and the end is a long, slightly creamy bitterness that's somewhere between red malt and nobel hops. I guess I can see where this is supposed to be a helles, as the malt is heavy and dry and there's nothing fruity or spritely about it. Still, it's pretty tame for a helles, and not lively enough to be a good blonde. It's not bad, though.