Batemans Godivas Gold

Formerly brewed at Batemans
Style: Golden Ale/Blond Ale
Skegness, England

Serve in English pint, Shaker

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1. Cask Handpump at the Borough Arms, Crewe 02/07/2001 Golden coloured bitter and slightly pale. Apple flavours. Malt and hop finish. 2. Cask Handpump at Calverts Court, Stockport (JDW) 29/05/2003 Golden slightly rich on the palate. Sour fruit flavour. Some bitterness in a lasting malt finish.

Had this at the brewery. Maybe it doesnt travel well. The aroma is sulphuric with some sourness. Again flavours have some sourness with a licourice tang. The finish is smooth and dry. A little odd - but not bad.

Cask Conditioned at The Roscoe Head, Liverpool. Straw yellow in colour with thin head. This was our favourite pub of the Liverpool weekend, shame aboout the beer. Not worth describing but por thin flavour.

I thought I might of just been given a bad pint, but from the other reviews it is clear that my bad impression of this beer is valid. Strange attempt at carbonation, doesn't work. Extremely watery, Bud-esque!

UPDATED: FEB 21, 2004 Pale golden. No head. Some toffee aroma in all sourness. Notes of vanilla. Dry palate feel.

Not good at all!! A sour taste and aroma from raisins. A very watery palate and it actually tastes BAD!!

Cask, Dog & Bone, Gillingham. Part of the Bateman's "GOOD HONEST'ALES" range of seasonal beers based on semi-fictional characters and events through history. I think the apostrophe is placed to indicate that the range can be read as Good Honest Tales. Mmmm. This is a hazy golden beer which tends more toward lager than it does toward ale. There seems to be an interest in Britain at the moment in producing ales which are more acceptable to lager drinkers. Ale sales are down, but lager sales are up. It's an unpleasant trend. This piece of nonsense has a sweetish aroma and a watery texture. There is some mild malt. It is a very poor quality beer.