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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/).
 Most Recent Top Raters Highest Ratings Who's Rated This?  
 henry3r (586), Wichita, Kansas, USA
1.4 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
2/102/53/102/55/20
Mar 30, 2007  
The 12 ounce bottle poured crystal clear medium amber colored beverage with a small fizzy head that was fully diminishing and left no lacing on the glass. The aroma was somewhat, no, fully odd. It smelled like old coffee grounds and stale beer spilled on the barroom floor. The body was medium-light with rather flat carbonation and an oily texture. The flavor started off lightly sweet with a nice full grain flavor but soon took on an odd cough syrup taste at the back of the palate. I threw the rest out.


 SJP (483), Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
2.4 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
4/102/56/102/510/20
Mar 10, 2007  
From a bottle. Smells like a nice loaf of fresh baked bread. Great aroma, but not for a beer. No carbonation at all. Tasted mildly hopped with a hint of coffee. Not great at all, but my fiancee can’t deal with wheat,, so this is just the thing to share with her.


 RedEft (131), Wichita, Kansas, USA
2.1 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
4/102/53/103/59/20
Mar 3, 2007  
Poured a yellow-amber with a non-existant head. Aroma is bizarre...smells a lot like cheap, boxed wine. And surprise! It tatstes a lot like someone spiked a typical American style light lager with cheap boxed wine. What a bizarre brew. Not what I was expecting from sorghum, though in retrospect, I wouldn’t know what to expect. This tatses far less like beer than say, some of the rice-driven Hitachino brews. Well, I’m certainly glad the celiacs in the world have a "beer" to drink. Can’t help but think it could be done better though.


 BDR (2139), Roseville, Minnesota, USA
1.6 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
3/102/53/102/56/20
Feb 26, 2007  
Yellow color with dry honey color and flavor. Grainy flavor with the faintest hint of coffee.


 BrewDad (2363), Olympia, Washington, USA
3.1 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/104/55/104/512/20
Feb 24, 2007  
12oz Bottle] A deep amber color with a light head. This had a very unique flavor somewhat fruity in nature and seemed to have a slight lager feel. Easy to drink this is a going to be a chick brew in the long run.


andrewtroth (25), Eagan, Minnesota, USA
2 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
3/103/53/104/57/20
Feb 23, 2007  
Clear amber pour, not much head. Not much aroma. Pleasant on the palate, but flavor is muddled and tends toward the sour. Unremarkable.


 tytoanderso (1382), St. Louis Park, Minnesota, USA
1.6 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
3/102/54/102/55/20
Feb 20, 2007  
12 oz bottle. Pours gold with amber highlights. Small white head quickly disappears. Skunky pilsner like aroma. Tastes like wet cardboard smells with a hint of malty sweetness. Short and metallic finish. Decent for what it is I guess.


 Beerdedone (1873), Croydon, Pennsylvania, USA
2.8 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/102/56/102/512/20
Feb 20, 2007  
Bottle sampled with Stegosaurus. Pours golden with not much of a head. Nice sweet malts aroma. Flavor is sweet, with an underlining bitterness.



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