Dogfish Head Golden Era (Shower)

Golden shower bottle, this has an excellent balanced aroma of malts and hops. Very hoppy and a lot of sweetness throughout. A solid imperial pils that I would love to have again.

750ml bottle.
Pours a rich orange-amber with never-ending streams of huge bubbles that feed a ceaseless white head. Very dark for a pilsner, imperial or otherwise. Aroma is pleasant enough with rich piney, grapefruity hops and an intense malt sweetness that seems inappropriate for a pilsner, even if you throw the "imperial" adjective in front of it. Same complaint about the flavor: way, way too malty & sweet for a pilsner. Certainly there was sufficient hop bitterness for the style, about the only place where this beer resembled a pilsner in any sense. Palate is thick, again uncharacteristic for a pilsner, but I suppose that can be expected of an imperial pilsner. Interesting beer, but not reminiscent of a pilsner in practically any sense.

Very drinkable beer, even for 9%. Nothing great though. Throw it in six packs and ship it out and I’d make it a regular in my fridge for nights of mass consumption. Pours out, i get it, golden. Minimal fizzy white head. Malty sweet nose, flavor kind of dull. Mostly light hop, floral, sweetness.

Bottled. Dark golden in colour with a medium sized white head. Malty with notes of metal, pines, caramel, flowers, fruits, grapefruit and hops that leads to a somewhat dry finish.

Dark yellow colored, slightly cloudy appearance. Medium sized yellow head. Very rich aroma with flowers, hay and caramel. Medium to full bodied. Flavor is even richer with dominating sweetness, honey almost. Fruits, lemon, nice hops and flowers also there. Aftertaste has almost caramel with toffee. Nice brew indeed.

Bottled (thanks Degarth!). Deep golden colour, mediumsized white head. Aroma is US hops, hay and not much other exciting things. Flavour is the same along with a slight sting of alcohol.

Bottled 75 cl (bottled 03/2006)
Light copper brown color, good creamy head, lots of lace. Papery, grassy aroma with fruity notes. Full-bodied with notable alcohol. Sweetish, flowery hoppy - hops are dominating the aftertaste. I can trace also black currant leaves and lemon.

(Bottled, 0.75l) Clear golden with a smallish head. Sweetish, strong and somewhat alcoholic honey-malty aroma. Very malty, sweet and softly flowery-hoppy flavor. Quite full-bodied, low-carbonated palate. Nice and full, but too alcoholic, imo.