The Burly Blonde is a very lightly-hopped and lightly-colored blonde ale. The catch with this beer is that, after fine-tuning the small amount of floral and citrus hop varieties used in this beer, we were able to boost up the ABV to 7.5% while keeping the underlying 'drinkability' intact. This is a very refreshing beer but be careful, at 7.5%, this isn't a 'lawnmower beer.'