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Bards Tale Dragons Gold

Bards Tale Dragons Gold  - Specialty Grain

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 Percentile 
10
overall
Brewed by Gordon Biersch Brewing Company
Style: Specialty Grain

Palo Alto, California USA

bottled
common

on tap
unknown

Broad Distribution
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 Ratings  Average  Score  ABV  Style Pctl  Serve in 
1862.32/5.02.33/5.04.7%6.1Lager glass, Tumbler
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Commercial Description:
This Golden Sorghum Lager will appeal to beer drinkers who prefer the lighter taste of lagers produced by the major brewers, such as Anheuser-Busch, Coors, Miller, and Heineken. This ale has a light crisp taste to meet the thirst quenching requirements of the lager style while still having enough body to interest the ale drinker during the spring and summer seasons. This beer has low bitterness and a subtle but pleasant hop aroma that will gently caress the senses.

Note: contract brewed for Bard’s Tale Beer (<A HREF=http://www.bardsbeer.com/ TARGET=blank>http://www.bardsbeer.com/).
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 douglas88 (1557), Salt Lake City, Utah, USA
1.8 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
4/103/54/102/55/20
Aug 28, 2007  
Bottle. Golden color with a very weak head. The sorghum is so overpowering, and tatses too much like glue. It’s sweet and smooth. Not what I like in a beer, the sorghum is interesting, and the title is cool that’s about it.


 BückDich (4793), McCall, Idaho, USA
2.4 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
5/102/55/102/510/20
Aug 22, 2007  
Bottle: Yellow gold, light white head, light lacing. Nose of light dust and hops, some odd grainy notes. The flavor is ok, somewhat toasty and moldy, but distinctly not barley. The finish is spicy. Meh.


 MrRain (415), O’Fallon, Illinois, USA
2 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
4/103/54/102/57/20
Aug 21, 2007  
12oz bottle poured into a shaker. BTDG pours brass with a very quickly disappearing head. It smells faintly of vinegar. It has a sweet cottony taste that really doesn’t settle well. The finish is like grease. It’s like when you’ve eaten too many of those fried potato sticks that come in a can. This beer can be wrapped up mostly with "Yuck".


 BuckeyeBoy (1645), Boise, Idaho, USA
2.4 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
5/103/54/103/59/20
Aug 16, 2007  
12oz Bottle pours out clear gold topped with a white head. A little odd??? and not very good. Thanks any way Jordan


 Palidor19 (1750), Brandon, Florida, USA
1.9 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
4/102/54/102/57/20
Jul 24, 2007  
the pour of this is very weak, thin with no head. the malts that is used give an unpleasant astrigent taste. probaly wont be having this one again


cdeaton (66), Madison, Indiana, USA
1.9 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
5/102/52/103/57/20
Jul 1, 2007  
Golden and herbal/lightly fruity on the nose, neither of which jumped out at me. Taste is of -- and this was really, really fun putting together -- sourdough bread, La Choi soy sauce, Special K, and Aunt Jemimah. If someone offered me a slice of sourdough with a La Choi/Special K/Aunt Jemimah dipping sauce, I’ld eat the bread and dump the sauce on whoever was demented enough to make it. I suppose an ’A’ for effort, but that’s it.


 beerinmarch (2781), Alabama, USA
2.9 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/103/55/103/512/20
Jun 30, 2007  
Sorgum gives quite a unique flavor, but goes better in saisons and other brews as a smaller portion of the grain bill. Very earthy on the palate, the sorgum gives it a spicy edge, feeling rather dry and crisp in the finish.


bardechh (8), USA
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2.8 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/105/54/103/59/20
Jun 17, 2007  
Initially I was dissappointed however I had to think, sorgum and adjust my palate and it became quite enjoyable. But I won’t be ordering it anytime soon with better choices available.



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