Badger Harvesters Ale

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

Serve in English pint, Shaker

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Bottle from Tesco. Gold coloured with a decent, off-white head. Light sweet malt and grassy hop aroma. Flavour had some biscuit malt, fruitiness and a short, bitter finish. Subdued all round.

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.

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%.

Bottled@The 2nd ES/CS Beer Tasting. (thanks JP). Pale golden colour with small white head. Aroma is sweet malts, some parfume, mild cardboardy notes as well as some quite grassy notes. Flavour is malty, cardboardy, hayish, grassy and mildly bitter.

Bottled, 500ml from Tesco, Banbury. Yellow gold with white head. A beer that certainly reflects it’s ABV, wishy washy comes to mind, harsh lemony flavour on a watery body. Not enjoyable.

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.

Bottle. Pours a clear golden color with a small white head. Has a fruity grany aroma with some hoppy hints. Sweetish malty slightly yeasty flavor with some hints of hops with a thin mouthfeel. Has a sweetish malty grainy finish with some hoppy hints in the aftertaste.

Bottle. Golden beer with a light head. The aroma is lightly hopped, and the flavour is yeasty, strongly dry and hopped. Overall quite a disappointing beer.

Umm bitter shandy. What, no, not shandy? Well sure tastes like it. Bubblegum, candy, lots of fizz. I could probably drink a fair few with only a burp as a side effect.

Clear yellow coloured with a small white head. Aroma of malts, brewmash and grain. Sweet flavour of malts and brewmash with notes of hops. Hoppy finish. Boring.

Bottle at Københavnske Øldage 2009. Clear yellow coloured with a small white head. Aroma of malts, brewmash and grain. Sweet flavour of malts and brewmash with notes of hops. Hoppy finish. Boring.