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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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 stegosaurus (1882), Levittown, Pennsylvania, USA
2.5 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
5/102/55/102/511/20
Feb 19, 2007  
Bottle sampled with Beerded one. Pours copper with a small white head. Aroma of sweet malts and grain. The flavor is sweet malts, slight fruit, grain, and mildly bitter. Thin body, not bad.


 JK (2946), Richfield, Minnesota, USA
1.2 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
2/101/53/101/55/20
Feb 12, 2007  
Gold color. Very light hop and chemical aroma. Flavor is sweet fermented grains. Really not much body at all.


 joebrew (608), Farewell Minny; Hello Puyallup, Washington, USA
3 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/103/56/103/512/20
Feb 12, 2007  
Pours a light golden. Light pils-like flavor with a considerable sweetness to the grainy mouthfeel, but for a gluten-free beer this is pretty nice. I would drink this over almost all BMC product, and it is a nice substitute for a celiac for now.


 tomciccateri (496), Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA
2.2 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
2/104/55/102/59/20
Feb 4, 2007  
From a 12-ounce brown bottle dated seven (7) month ago. Poured a very clear copper color with no head. Light-to-medium body with a slightly slick mouthfeel. Unique flavor, must be the sorghum, dominated everything after the early hop bitterness. Well carbonated with a somewhat sweet flavor balance. I prefer malt.


 hopdog (5534), Lansdale, Pennsylvania, USA
1.7 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
2/103/54/102/56/20
Feb 3, 2007  
12oz bottle, bottled on 10/02/06. Poured a medium orangish color with a smaller sized off white head. Very sweet aroma. There’s something there I can’t quite place. Must be the sorghum. Toffee and caramel. Plastic beach balls. Sweet tastes (but not as sweet as the aromas. Caramel. Thin body.


 TechMyst (166), Fox River Grove, Illinois, USA
1.9 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
5/104/53/102/55/20
Jan 28, 2007  
Consumed 8 months after production. Very clear amber with hints of ruby. Good appearance is where the ’goodness’ ends for this brew. Aroma is of sugary malts (this is a sourghum based concoction). No head and there was large bubbles lazily making their way to the top, so I figured the conditioning would not have much bite, but I was wrong. The carbonation had quite a bit of sting. mouthfeel was light to medium and left a slick palate. The tongue curling sweetness was followed by a tinny/metallic taste. Don’t think I’ll try this again...I bought a single 12 oz bottle from Binny’s and I’m glad I never got the sixer...


 KAggie97 (2406), Ugly, Hot, and Humid Spring, Texas, USA
1.5 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
4/102/54/102/53/20
Jan 23, 2007  
Bottle. Pours thin amber with an aroma of beans and corn with butter. Tastes like soy, dirt, and butter. Thin and lifeless on the tongue. Please, PLEASE- no more sorghum beers.


 Homebrewerguy (284), Oil City, Pennsylvania, USA
1.9 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
3/102/54/103/57/20
Jan 15, 2007    Updated: Jan 16, 2007
My first sorghum beer. The bottle says it was brewed on 7/25/06.. So this is what they’re drinking in China...the poor saps. Sorghum certainly ain’t barley and the difference is in the beer. Still I could understand a cult following for the sharp taste of sorghum. Not me though.



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