3.5 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 15/20
From the tap. Fresh golden bitter with tight creamy head. Light aroma. Hint of sweetness, citrusy freshness and refrrshing bitter finish. Excellent golden bitter.
2.9 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
Bottle from Tarantella, Ambleside. Not so much gold as an extremely pale yellow. Small head that disappeared quite quickly. Very mild aroma of hints of citric fruits. Tastes mildly bitter with a relatively short finish. Some grapefruit and lemon with bittersweet hops. Refreshing and it complemented my meal well enough but I’m not sure it would have had enough about it to stand out when being drunk on its own. Okay. Probably a great session ale.
2.8 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 11/20
Bottle at home ... golden yellow .. thin white head ... very grassy lager nose with a touch of honey ... ligth bitter front ... soft grassy lager hop ... wet hay and honey ... not my thing ... but stella says she likes it.
3.2 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
On cask at The Stagg’s Beer Festival, 2011. Pours a blonde colour with a thick white head. Aroma is quite biscuity with lots of oats, some caramel and a little apple. Big upfront oat flavour also with a little grass, yeast and barley. Moderate carbonation, light CO2 prickle and a foamy mouth-feel.
3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
Pale golden with a small white head. Malty and grainy aroma with fruity and floral notes. Sweet grainy flavour with grassy hops
4.3 AROMA 9/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 9/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 18/20
Cloudy straw colour, citrusy aroma. Lemony taste, fresh and fruity. My favourite Gold Beer by a long way, Badger Golden Glory has a similar feel ending with a more bitter taste,. Hard to get hold of outside Cumbria, but best drunk in its pub of origin the Kirkstile inn in Loweswater.
3.3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 2/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 15/20
Weird beer. It’s got a lime green colour, very light, refreshing, but also has a lime taste, which is just a bit weird, even in a golden summer ale.
2.8 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 2/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 11/20
Bottle 500ml.
Light unclear light to medium yellow colour with a small to average, frothy, fair lacing, mostly diminishing, white head. Aroma is moderate malty, toasted, fruity, elderflowers, pineapple notes. Flavour is moderate sweet and light to moderate bitter with a average to long duration. Body is light medium, texture is watery to oily, carbonation is soft. [20110802]
2.9 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 11/20
Cask. The Kings Arms, Hawkshead. Thin white head, gold body. Lemony, citric. Bitter. Dry finish.
3.4 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 14/20
UPDATED: OCT 14, 2011 500ml bottle (ChrisO’s post-GBBF2011 Tuesday)
Slightly mashy grain aroma. I lie - it’s massively mashy. It’s like what I pulled out from the middle of the pile of malting barley in Aizpute. Quite weetabixy taste. Finish is even more grains. Don’t see the hops in this one, but I like grains, so I’m not complaining.
Rerate, 5 days later - bottle must have been moved too much, this was hazy, and messy, and dirty. Sticking with the prior rating.
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