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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?  
 hoppopotamus (182), Santa Cruz, California, USA
1.8 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
1/103/54/102/58/20
Jan 21, 2009  
A brown beer with minimal head. The smell is fairly disgusting. Skunky, sickly sweet, perhaps a tad of caramel malt, but just gross. I think it might have gone skunky, but there is nothing at all redeeming. The taste is slightly less terrible, some spicy hops jump out from more of the same aforementioned atrocities against zymurgy as the aroma contains. I have a friend who is allergic to gluten, and that must suck. But it cannot suck nearly as much as drinking this horrible crap.


meeple (52), Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
2.4 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
3/104/55/103/59/20
Jan 20, 2009  
Bottle. Pours deep orange, minimal head. Nose has sweet fruit smell. A little biscuitty, slightly sour, cidery. Slightly slick mouthfeel. Can’t get over the fruit juice smell the more I drink. Not as bad as I’d feared, and not offensive if you don’t mind the sweet fruit taste, but not worth buying as more than a novelty.


 zach8270 (2051), Henrietta, New York, USA
2.8 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/103/55/103/511/20
Dec 12, 2008  
[bottle - 12 oz] Golden pour with a fizzy white head. Aroma is sweet with some good hints of caramel, nuts, and some molasses. Flavor is sweet at the beginning but disappears quickly to a light and crisp middle with some hints of apple skins and a very lightly bitter finish. Aftertaste is some sorghum and a bit dry. My first gluten-free beer. Rather interesting.


 Crit (2399), New Westminster, British Columbia, Canada
1.9 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
3/103/54/101/58/20
Nov 21, 2008  
Dark gold,small fast fading white head. Vinegar nose.Light oddly sweet profile, vinegar overtones


 Beardface (977), Eugene, Oregon, USA
1.7 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
3/102/53/102/57/20
Nov 21, 2008  
Golden pour with a big but not entirely pleasant nose of malts and some nutty essence. Far too sweet and unbalanced but a truly awesome name somewhat makes up for it.


 colts9016 (198), Idaho, USA
2.1 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
4/103/53/102/59/20
Nov 21, 2008  
Pour amber hue thin white line for a head. Nose caramel malty honey molasses sorghum and wheat. Taste carbonation thin malty hints of caramel with sorghum lacing through. Finish nill to slightly acidic. Overall not a very good beer.


 BMan1113VR (2757), Los Angeles (and Dallas), Texas, USA
2.4 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
5/102/55/102/510/20
Nov 15, 2008  
Bottle marked 2/12/08. Pours with a fizzy white head that goes leeaving a clear penny colored body. No lacing. Aroma of cheap malt, cheese rinds and plums. Taste is sweet with coconut, nuts and granmanier (in a very poor marriage of the three). Very sweet with soggy malts at the finish. Fizzy and dry.


 ChristianScheffel (4431), Odense, Denmark
2.6 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/103/55/102/510/20
Oct 10, 2008  
Dark golden with a small white head. Sweet grainy malt aroma, with notes of nuts and prunes. Sweet fruity flavour, with a slightly sour fruit juice-like note. Considering the other ratings, it must have been oxidized. And that may not have been a bad thing...



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