Crouch Vale Yakima Gold

Brewed by Crouch Vale
Style: Golden Ale/Blond Ale
South Woodham Ferrers, England

Serve in English pint, Shaker

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Cask, The Dalmon, Leicester. Golden with a thin foam. Aromas are peach, grapefruit, pineapple and bready yeast with lemon. Floral with some caramel. Flavours are bittersweet lemon with yeast and pineapple juice. Caramel with spritzy yeast and lemon. Lightly woody with a dry finish and some hints of resinous pine coming through. A good beer in good condition.

Cask @ Charlies Bar, copenhagen. Pours a pale yellow color with a small white head. Has a fruity citrus hoppy aroma. Fruity malty citrus hoppy flavor with some weak bitterness. Has a fruity citrus hoppy finish.

Cask @ CPK. Golden body with a tiny white head. The nose is acidic sweet lemon, cut grass and some mildly menacing funk. The taste is tangy skunky hops. Lemon rind and cheesy funky yeastiness. Sweet citrus. Quite dirty in a good way. The finish is dry and refreshingly bitter. Very drinkable smooth body. Light. Silky soft carbonation. Very nice from Crouch Vale.

On gravity at the Barley Mow, Bristol 21/04/2012. Clear gold in colour with a slight white head. Big hoppy aroma of grapefruit and pineapple with a touch of creamy malt. Flavour had more citrus, leading to a hoppy dry finish. Excellent.

Cask. Pours golden with a slight haze and a lacing white head. Lovely sweet fruit in the nose with a lemon twist - but also a discreet whiff of diacetyl. Medium body, low carbonation, sweet fruitiness and some pleasant citrusy hops that also leave a fairly bitter finish. Delicious. 180412

Cask @ the Wharf, Aalborg. Clear golden with a lasting white head. Aroma is sweet, malty and moderate hoppy - citrus. Flavor is quite sweet and moderate bitter. Dry and moderate bitter finish. 110212

Cask (gravity) @ The 17th Reading Beer and Cider Festival 2011, Reading, Berkshire England.

Clear medium yellow orange colour with a average, frothy, good lacing, mostly lasting, off-white to white head. Aroma is moderate malty, toasted, moderate to heavy hoppy, citrus, lemon, cat piss notes. Flavor is moderate to heavy sweet and bitter with a long duration, citrus, hoppy. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft to flat. [20110429]

Salisbury winterfest. Very pale, hazy. Aromas and tastes hoppy-grapefruit and hints of honey.

Cask at Charlie’s Bar, Copenhagen. A hazy light yellow beer with a yellowish head. The aroma has notes of hops, lemons, and straw, leading to a softly bitter finish.

Golden clear beer with a small offwhite head. Fruity and hoppy aroma. Hoppy flavour, a bit bitter.

Cask at Craft Beer Co., London. Hazy pale golden. Sweaty tangerine aroma. Mid sweet with medium body and rounded mouthfeel. Tangerine hops quickly dissipates into sugary creamy malt. Mid bitter finish. Tastes much bigger than it’s actuali size.