Bend Metolius Golden Ale

Brewed by Bend Brewing Company
Style: American Pale Ale
Bend, Oregon USA

Serve in Lager glass, Shaker

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Draught at the brewpub. Clear gold with a lasting head. The aroma has a touch of fruity, english yeast and some caramel and bread. The flavor has some pale caramel with a ruity english yeast character and some mild, spicy hops. Smooth texture with a medium-light body. Not very hoppy (duh) but has a nice creamy malt flavor and yeast character that gives it personality.

Cask at GBBF 2011. Slightly hazy golden color. Sweet very flowery and honeyish aroma and flavor with some fruity hops. Rounded and mellow. Although this was first beer of a day, this felt too mellow and low on hops.

Cask at GBBF 2011. Pale golden with a small white head. Grainy aroma with floral notes. Sweetish bland malty flavour

4th August 2011
GBBF. Cask. Light haze on this gold beer. Little white head. Smooth dry palate. Smooth dry pale malt. Trace of citrus, orange. Well balanced but a little dull. Finishes dry.

Cask (gravity) @ GBBF 2011, Great British Beer Festival, Earls Court Exhibition Centre, London, England.

Clear medium orange yellow colour with a average, frothy, fair lacing, mostly diminishing, off-white to white head. Aroma is moderate malty, grain, toasted, fruity, apple, light yeasty, ripped fruit. Flavor is moderate sweet and light moderate bitter with a average to long duration. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft to flat. [20110804]

GraviCask (GBBF2011, Thursday)
Orange in colour. Smells of liver and offal. Sharp palate, also a little slick. Dull mashy body. Sweet, hopping low. No reason for this to exist.

Cask @ GBBF, 2011. Pours cloudy golden with a small white head. Dough, hay and grain. Quite heavy buttery notes. Medium bodied.

Cask@GBBF2011. Golden colour, small beige head. Aroma is fruits, wood, caramel and some mild earthy and nectary notes. Flavour is fruity, floral, mildly wooden and also slightly vanillaish notes.

Cask at GBBF 2011. Clear golden, low to medium white head. Bready malt aroma with some faint grassy hops. Light to medium bodied. Dry to medium dry, low bitterness.

Cask at GBBF 2011. Clear golden coloured with a small white head. Fruity aroma of hops and grass. Fruity flavour of hops and grass with notes of caramel. Hoppy finish.

From cask. Pours clear and golden yellow with a small white and lacing head. Aroma is crisp fruity and citrusy hoppy. Bitter, citrusy and mild fruity sweet impression. Ends medium dry and bitter.