Ballards Golden Bine

Brewed by Ballards
Style: Golden Ale/Blond Ale
Petersfield, England

Serve in English pint, Shaker

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[Cask at Volunteers Arms, GBBF 2005] The hand writen pump clip read: "Ballard Golden Bine II" - I wonder if that is because it was a 3.8% ABV, which is lighter than the 4.2%, that it is listed under here. Anyways the brewery homepage sets it at 3.8% - so it must be the same beer. A hazy orange beer with a thin white head. The aroma is of minerals - reminds me of the Lithuanian beers Josh and Per brought to RBESG in 2004, but the aroma also contains notes of sulphur - a little like a mild. The flavor is malty with the same notes of minerals, with a dry end and a thin body.

Cask. Golden color. No smell or aroma . Tastes sweet and light. Nothing special very drinkable

Cask at Battersea Beer Festival, 10th Feb 2011. Slightly hazy golden colour. Citrus flavour. Very drinkable, not too thin, not too heavy. Good golden session ale.

Cask (handpump) @ GBBF 2010, Great British Beer Festival, Earls Court Exhibition Centre, London, England.

Clear medium yellow color with a average, frothy, good lacing, mostly diminishing, white head. Aroma is moderate malty, toasted, light to moderate hoppy, citrus. Flavor is moderate sweet and bitter with a average to long duration. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft to flat. [20100804]

Cask (gravity dispense) at Battersea Beer Festival on 10 February 2011. One of those beers I assumed I’d rated before but apparently hadn’t. Gold with a haze but good condition. Slight bubblegum aroma. Biscuity on the palate. Some decent resiny hops. Maybe a little sweet but quite enjoyable.

Cask-conditioned at the Sussex beer festival, Seven Stars, Bristol 6/1/11. Fruity aroma with some orange blossom hops and dusty cereal malts. Flavour had slightly jammy fruit, chewy malts and a decent bitter finish. Ok.

Cask at the Prince of Wales North Farnborough. A hazy golden colour with a white head. Very much as a citrus aroma, the taste is again all citrus with a very dry bitter finish. The finish has to much of a citrus bitter taste for me.

Cask Handpump at the GBBF, Earl’s Court 04/08/2010 Fruit and some hop aromas. Golden coloured and a little hazy in appearance. Fruity and hoppy with a hint of dryness in a bitter malt finish.

Cask@GBBF2010. Golden colour, small white head. Aroma is fruits, wood, spruce, nectar and mildly herbal notes. Flavour is quite uch the same in a nice balance.

cask at GBBF 2010 ... Earls count... London ... southeast england ... united Kingdom ... Europe ... World ... amber ... dull almost no hop nose .. soft lemon ... light dry and dull.

From cask. Pours clear and golden yellow with a small white head. Aroma is fruity and slight herbal. Sweet malty and citrusy. Bitter and slight fruity into the finish.