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Dogfish Head Golden Era (Shower)

Dogfish Head Golden Era (Shower) - European Strong Lager

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 Percentile 
89
overall
Brewed by Dogfish Head Brewery
Style: European Strong Lager

Milton, Delaware USA

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 Ratings  Average  Score  ABV  Style Pctl  Serve in 
5213.54/5.03.53/5.09%94.4Lager glass
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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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 MHED (112), lisle, USA
3.4 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/104/56/103/515/20
Jun 22, 2006  
Poured golden rich. Small white head. Aroma was slightly spicey and sweet. Started out molasses/malty sweet with subtle floral and very little pepper. Middle and end were both malty sweet and finished slightly heavy but clean. I think some time would do this beer good. Pricey, but not bad for a lager.


gferd (99), Atlanta, Georgia, USA
3.4 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/104/55/103/515/20
Jun 21, 2006  
Rather mild initally. Had a golden hue too it with almost no head. Some carbonation. Aroma with sweet with honey notes and floral hops, alcohol was present. Taste was sweet but not over powering. Some hops but a nice warming finsh.


 goldtwins (4079), Nesconset, New York, USA
3.3 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/104/56/104/513/20
Jun 19, 2006  
Poured a clear dark gold with a medium sized off-white head. very sweet and malty. Sugary with notes of alcohol. Malty sweet flavor with a light bitterness on the finish. Pretty one dimensional it’s just a lot of malt. Medium to full bodied with a nice carbonation level.


 redlight (1445), Winter Park, Florida, USA
3 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
5/105/55/103/512/20
Jun 18, 2006  
Somewhat of a sour aroma, mostly malt. Pours a rich golden color with a white head. Very malty, lagery flavor, alcohol, with a sour aftertaste, there are a hint of hops in there somewhere.


 pnista (1008), Bloomington, Indiana, USA
4.1 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
9/104/57/104/517/20
Jun 15, 2006  
Pours a slightly hazy golden brown, darker than a standard pilsner, but with similar head qualities. The nose is really very nice on this lager. Huge malt presence with an obvious sweetness not to mention the liberal flowery hops. This is a really smooth textured beer with the most viscosity and alcohol warming I’ve ever encountered in a lager... this really reminds me much more of a barleywine in terms of palate. Flavor is close to barleywin with the huge huge malt, though the liberal hops buts this more in line with a IIPA. Again, really big sticky sweet malt with very floral and slightly spicey hops. The alcohol bridges the two flavors rather nicely. I can’t say this is a nature feeling beer. Everything is so big. Nothing is mellow at all. The only thing that integrates the malt and hop characters is the alcohol I feel. This is probably a brew that would benefit from a little bit of age... if I see another bottle, I will probabily have to buy it.


 tcruicks (282), Bloomington, Indiana, USA
3.8 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/102/58/103/517/20
Jun 15, 2006  
A yellow-orange color with a small white bubbly head. Very hoppy and but not so much so that it dominates the aroma or flavour; also malty. Sweet and a little bit spicy. Smooth, full and almost creamy.


 bfeldmann (1042), Wilmington, Delaware, USA
4.1 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/104/59/104/516/20
Jun 15, 2006  
"Poured a hazy golden color with nice head and good lacing. Aroma was hops in the front followed by malts and some fruit. Flavor was good much the same very well balanced in with hops and malts, not as grassy as i expected. "


 mkobes (2103), paramus, New Jersey, USA
3.9 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/104/58/105/515/20
Jun 14, 2006  
750 ml bottle. Golden in color with a nice rocky white head. Hoppy and grainy aroma. Spicey hop notes. Fresh. Malty grainy and hoppy flavor. Sweet tasting. Spicey. Big alcohol presence. Finish is sweet. Celan mouthfeel. Full bodied. Very nice.



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