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Endurance Glacier Gold


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36
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A Golden Ale/Blond Ale brewed by
Mercury Brewing and Distribution

Ipswich, Massachusetts USA

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202.91/5.02.9/5.0-49.9English pint, Shaker P  Stats

Commercial Description:
Our follow up offering to the highly acclaimed Endurance Pale Ale is a clean and crisp, smooth and refreshing beer. Brewed in the adventurous spirit of the epic 1914 Endurance Nautical Expedition to Antarctica, Endurance Glacier Gold's subtle hop flavor is derived from domestic Glacier and Brewer's Gold hops. Enjoy this Endurance experience.

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 argo0 (6289), Washington DC, USA
2.2 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
4/101/55/103/59/20
Nov 18, 2006  
(12oz bottle) A gusher that kept gushing -- the glass was filled with white foam and the bottle kept on spewing more. Drinking foam as it comes off the bottle is definitely not conducive to enjoying a beer. Eventually a clear straw body is revealed. Aroma is mild, grain, herbal. Taste is mild sweet, herbal, lime, light grain. Light body, some crispness.


 JoeMcPhee (3899), Jackson Heights, New York, USA
4.1 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/104/58/104/517/20
Aug 19, 2006  
Pale golden beer, thin white head. Fresh spicy hop aroma. Noble character with sweet fresh floral character throughout. Fresh bready malts, terrific soft full body. Floral hop flavour and a crisp minerally flavour as well. Lingering spiciness and breadiness on the finish. Some pale honey and light lemony flavour as the beer warms up. Incredibly tasty... I’ve found another one that I don’t get bored of. Great sessionable beer for the summer. Reminds me of Christoffel Blond, except it doesn’t have to spend a month on a boat before I can get it.


 ClarkVV (3550), Allston, Massachusetts, USA
3.7 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
5/104/58/104/516/20
Jun 20, 2006    Updated: Aug 3, 2006
2006 bottle consumed on 6/14/06. Frothy white head, per usual from Mercury, is well-retained and laces sporadically. The bright goldenrod liquid is full of bottle conditioned bubbles. Very slight yeast sediment lies on the bottom. The nose begins with damp, grassy, almost funky hops. Very lean malt has notes of biscuits and slight breadiness, but is otherwise quite clean, minimally sweet and allows the hops room to maneuver. Very grassy, dusty but in a very large quantity, the English hops make me think EKGs, though I see it is Brewers Gold (similar) and Glacier (hybrid?). Some yeast nuttiness gets in the way and cuts all sharpness, while a fluffy, aerated graininess is not overly expressive. Tons of hop apparency, but it’s those dusty, funky, old-grassy hops that really confound the nose and do not complement the otherwise clean malt. Thankfully, the flavor is more citric and sharply grassy, with less of the damp soil and wet flowers, or what have you. The attenuation is perfect, being just sweet enough, with honey and very light drops of caramel and then quickly tapering off with bitter, crisp, leafy, green hop notes. Light lemon and orange, with a full complement of engaging, not-overdone carbonation. Dry and straw-like as Zach8270 says, leading to a very refreshing, medium to medium-light body with plenty of hop appeal. No alcohol, high in flavor with a good twang and bite on end.


 Braudog (3464), Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
3.8 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/105/58/104/514/20
Sep 30, 2007  
Bottle. Poured with a gigantic poofy head of pock-marked, bright-white foam. The beer beneath is golden-orange with a hazy middle. The aroma is acidic and sharp, like a freshly cut blood orange. As hinted-to, the beer drinks with a pronounced citric bite, not unlike a big juicy orange, that rindy aspect rearing its head particularly in the finish. This would go well with a salad of spinach, bacon and egg. (#3114, 9/30/2007)


 HogTownHarry (3361), Toronto (Harbourfront), Ontario, Canada
3 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/103/56/103/512/20
Jun 23, 2007  
<b>Bottle &#40;12oz&#41;</b>. Clear pale flat-looking gold, small fizzy white head. Hint of honey and fresh cereal grain in the aroma, light floral hops. Cereal gran taste, slightly sweet, mild hop bitterness in the finis. Watery, flat body, a little syrupy, quick-finishing and no after &#40;or much real&#41; taste. The hops have a little funkiness to them, but this is pretty bland stuff.



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