Cairngorm Gold (Bottle)

Brewed by Cairngorm
Style: Golden Ale/Blond Ale
Aviemore, Scotland

Serve in English pint, Shaker

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Its golden, as the name suggests - with a small head. Aromas are soft malts, citrus and spice and butter. Flavours are soft malts with some sweetness. Has a gentle level of hopping so it isn’t very dry or bitter. Nice, though.

Bottled. Pale golden colour with a rapid rising, yet fine, head. Lacy and delicious looking. Chocolate malt aroma with a faint bitter structure. Chocolate malt flavour but with this colour it must something else. If anyone knows what malt tastes so clearly chocolate but doesn’t impart the colour of chocolate malt, would you please drop me a line. Cheers. G$

I found myself liking this more than the Cairngorm dark beers.Light and easy taste lacking the burnt flavour of the dark beers.Not a great one but the delicate flavour makes it easy to sup on. There are certainly a lot more quality beers coming out of Scotland these days.

I'm not quite sure why Cairngorm makes two 4.5% gold beers (see also Sheepshaggers Gold - qv). Even the tasting notes on the brewery website say they are similar. And they are. Initially, this had a big perfumed hop hit on the aroma, with a hint of nettles in the background, but this soon settled down to reveal some sweet malt character that the Sheepshaggers had. And that came through on the palate, but underlined by a balancing acidity, that became a little harsh by the finish. The aftertaste remains sharp, but underlined by hints of a blended whisky type malt (definitely not a fine single). Overall, a little more assertive than the Sheepshaggers. Quite nice, but nothing exceptional. Bottled (500ml).