Badger Golden Glory

Brewed by Badger (Hall & Woodhouse)
Style: Golden Ale/Blond Ale
Blandford Forum, England

Serve in English pint, Shaker

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50 cl bottle, served in generic tulip beer glass. Pours w/ a nice golden hue. Moderate head. Overpowering, seemingly synthetic peach aroma. Peach dominates the taste too, in aggressive fashion; all else is forced off center stage. Too bad, really; this might've been a delicate, flowery ale if only the peach dominance hadn't been so extreme.

Pours a medium amber clear with medium size shortish lasting yellow head. All artificial peachy marizipan and no melon aroma on opening the bottle but if you come at it sideways you can sense a touch of hop bitter and biscuit malt, especially as it warms. Medium thin low carb body. Boring light stale bitter and lightly sweet thin artificial tropical fruity flavours. Finish is an unpronounced stalish bitter.

This really smells of flowery peaches. And I mean REALLY smells of flowery peaches, but in a rather synthetic sort of way. It overwehelms anything else in the aroma. This leaves one unprepared for the bitterness on the palate, which, in combination with the perfumed fruit, produces a rather unappealing sourness (and I have nothing against sour notes when handled properly). There is something soapy in the mouthfeel as well. For me, the whole thing fails to integrate well at all. I'm all in favour of experiments, but this one simply does not work. Not nice. However, as I did finish it (as ever), the marking is higher than it could be. Bottled (500ml)

Nice looking beer with a firm white head. Very peachy aroma. Peach and melon in taste but with a slight metallic aftertaste which detracts somewhat from this beer.

Short head on an amber coloured body. Aroma is of peach and melon. Flavour is peach followed by bitterness followed by peach.

Raspberry and hops in the aroma. Raspberry hoppy hay-like flavor. Just a hint of cinnamon. Rather thin, but a lot of flavor in this firmly hopped ale.

Sure is a peachy beer with a whiff of melon a la midori. Not a real favourite of mine but it isn't too bad in this beer. The beer looks fine in the glass with good head. The flavour is again clearly peachy, more of a nectar rather than essence of blossoms however. Hops are there to balance the sweetness but it is not a beer to go out and spend another $8 on.

i didn't realise that this was all peachy until i was just about to open it. the peach aroma is strong but thankfully not too sweet. looks like a satndard blond ale and tastes quite tame and watery, very little hop presence. but i found the taste of the water coming through by the end of the glass - very salty and metallic water

way peachy aroma, like you've just opened a tin of em. flavour is flat malt quickly drowned in the syrup from the aforementioned can. tiny bit of minty/miscellaneous botanical leafiness in aftertaste. mouthfeel is hard and flat. odd.

Very good Summer beer. Loads of fresh peaches in the aroma and in the flavour.