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Dogfish Head Golden Era (Shower)

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5223.54/5.03.53/5.09%94.4Lager glass
Commercial Description:
Golden Shower is brewed with all continental pilsner malt and hopped with the finest noble hops. This beer is dry-hopped in the conditioning tank for 8 weeks.
Formerly known as Prescription Pils, Golden Shower
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 BeerPrince (1701), Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
3.3 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/104/56/103/514/20
Mar 6, 2007  
Clear and golden with nice head retention. Aroma is floral with light hops. Flavour is sweet to start with before turning slightly alcoholic and yeasty. Finishes with a sticky alcohol sweetness.


 2beerguys (299), North Shore, Massachusetts, USA
3.7 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/104/58/103/515/20
Feb 14, 2007  
Here we are, on the precipice of beer number 200, having come a very long way from where we started back in January as craft beer novices. We’ve learned a lot since then, if nothing more than knowing we were in for a treat with a specialty brew from DFH, who are yet to let us down. The Golden Shower pours a golden yellow color with a large, light-brown fizzy head. Fair lacing left behind by a mostly diminishing head. Aroma was described differently by different people, but the consensus was sweet malts, flowery hops, soapy yeast, and a hint of cognac. Initial taste is moderately sweet, mellowing to a light sweet finish with a hint of bitter. Short duration. Light to medium on the mouth, it has a watery texture and soft to lively carbonation. Alcohol tinge left behind. Reviewed on October 22, 2006.


 Rballs01 (264), Mountain Lakes, New Jersey, USA
4.5 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
9/105/58/105/518/20
Feb 7, 2007  
Drank this one with Sam himself at our 06’ sales meeting at the Milton brewery. Delicious creation of an Imperial Pils. Poured a dark yellow with a thin foamy white head. Smelled of hops and bitter lemon. The flavor was out of this world. Crisp, hoppy with a swift kick to the palate at the end. Creative and perfectly balanced. Delicious!!


 ChazyRPh (571), Chazy, New York, USA
3.7 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/104/57/104/515/20
Jan 31, 2007  
Clear blonde/amber with medium to large white head. Hop aroma - grapefruit. Sticky malt with grapefruit hop presence. Kind of hot as far as alcohol is concerned. Sweet, yet bitter - decent offering. Some floral hop presence too.


 wickedpete (626), Lexington Park, Maryland, USA
4.5 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/105/59/104/519/20
Jan 26, 2007    Updated: Dec 27, 2007
This beer is thick, hoppy, alcoholic, and almost perfect. I can’t wait to get this one again.


 frankenkitty (1900), Oak Lawn, Illinois, USA
4.1 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/105/58/103/517/20
Jan 18, 2007  
Rating for Golden Shower

An attractive pour: thick yet mostly clear amber with frothy legs and a thickish film after a slow head. Regarding the aroma, my first thought was "barleywine", with some heavy, heady vinous dark fruits atop thick, alcoholic maltiness. Mouthfeel is strangely thin and sharp (with additional finish-astringence) while the flavor is thick and fruity malts... gorgeously sweet and rich, finishing with moderate bitterness.

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 detroiter (958), Euphoria, Minnesota, USA
3.7 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
9/104/57/103/514/20
Jan 15, 2007  
Pours a clear deep gold, quite effervescent, with an inch or more of creamy off-white foam. Decent lacing. Honey malt, caramel malt, and floral hops in the aroma. Medium body brew, moderately carbonated. More of that honeymalt and caramel malt blend in the flavor - more sweet than hoppy. In fact the hops are floral with slight bitterness found well in the background. Further into the glass, perhaps as it warmed a bit, a strong alcohol aroma developed. I did not detect any alcohol in the flavor. Tasty beer, I was expecting a hoppy/spicy/bitter imperial Czech pilsener, but this was something more like a blonde doppel bock


dpbhoosier (51), USA
3.7 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/105/57/104/515/20
Jan 13, 2007  
Bottle. Pours clear gold with 3 fingers worth of foam. Nice lacing on the glass, as expected for a pilsner. Lots of sweet malt taste at first with dry hop finish.



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