Badger Harvesters Ale

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

Serve in English pint, Shaker

send corrections   |   shelftag   |   edit barcodes   |   add pic

Bottle. Very clear golden appearance. Malty with an amazing amount of flavour considering its low strength. Very refreshing and summery. Don’t be put off by its low strength.This is a very pleasant beer.

Had this just under 3 years ago it pours light gold in colour and has a light straw like aroma. In the taste it was light refreshing and abit fruity good for 2.5%.

Bottle from Tesco. Pours a golden colour with a thin white head. Very effervescent. Initial aroma is a blast of perfumy hops, leading to a slightly strange meatyness in the background. The highly perfumed aroma extends in to the taste and is backed up by a fine biscuity malt and some fruit. Despite the heavy hopping the overall bitterness is kept rather low as to not overpower what is a light malt base. The low alcohol content is not immediately obvious but it feels increasingly watery as you move down the glass. One of the better Badger beers.

500ml Bottle at Home 28/04/2010 Hop aroma. White head. Carbonation. Clear golden coloured pale and hoppy. Smooth on the palalte with a slightly dry malt finish.

Always that Badger taste. You know the one- peanut butter, egg custard, wet dough, biscuit, vanilla....whatever it is. Yeasty/pastry sweetness. Actually, the dominant note heer is definitely peanut butter, but not in a bad way. Loks like lageer, fizzes, maintains a head, smells like an alsatian that/.s been wriggling in something dead. This is the tastiest, best conditionesd 2.5% real-ish bottled ale ive ever had. That’s to say it’s the ONLY 2.5% real-ish bottled ale ive ever had, and for that it must be applauded. ..

Cinq cent millilitres (Short-changed Pint) bottle from Tesco. Very pale appearance, slightly watery initial taste with a distintive but short lived "Badger" flavour which I can’t quite pin down but like. After-taste is a little bitter. However, the concept of a low alcohol ale that has a distinctive real ale taste is a good one in my opinion. I am often the driver when visiting out of the way pubs and a two and a half percent ale, on tap, would be a great help (especially if the govt reduces the allowed max even more).

Before buying this check out the alcohol content, only 2.5%. I am drinking it because I am going out later and decided to review it while I drink it, before the Rugby. Brown 500ml bottle, best before Dec 2008, drank on Saturday 2nd Feb 2008. Poured into my bateman’s straight sided pint glass. Pale yellowish amber, weak and thin looking, bubbles rising up towards the white foaming head. Am I being unfair, how can I tell it is weak and thin just by knowing it is 2.5% and by looking at it? The aroma is hoppy and sweetish, nothing very strong though. It’s OK, the taste is of beer, alright it is weak but they have given it a good go and you can tell it is a beer in your hand. It is bitter and has sweet overtones. I can’t knock this beer, it doesn’t try and be what it’s not. Of course it is not going to blow your head off with flavours or make you fall over after half a pint. It is however a good low alcoholic ale. Ideal beer for the duty driver and well worth trying if you come across it.

Bottle. Medium high fluffy and quickly disappearing white head. Clear golden body. Mild sweet apple pear banana malt aroma. Flavor as the aroma. Mild and yet tasty however with little hops bitterness but with a long sweet aftertaswte. Low carbonation.

50 cL bottle. Pours clear and golden yellow with a lacing white head. Aroma is mild spiced and fruity hoppy with a light bitterness lurking through. Takes this into a light bitter and slight fruity hoppy flavour with a light acidic touch. Mild malty finish with a light citrusy note.

Bottle. For such a low strength bottled bitter this was quite reasonable. Light fruity hop flavours and some pleasant biscuity malt. My only real complaint was the sweet finish to this, it may give it a bit of extra body but surely the point of the beer is a light low abv thirst quencher?