Estes Park Gold

Brewed by Estes Park Brewery
Style: Golden Ale/Blond Ale
Estes Park, Colorado USA

Serve in English pint, Shaker

Sample at the brewery. Pours a thin, short lived white hed,, over a clear, gold (SRM 5) body....nose is light cereal....taste is thin cereal, thin floral tones....mouth feel light, carbonation low. This is very light overall. BJCP 6/3/10/4/5

Light amber pour. Caramel, corn, pale hops. Flavor is grainy, light hops, rather typical and boring.

Kind of an ugly pale amber-golden with a white head. Aroma of bready malt and slight grassy hops. Taste is typical blond with a minimal hop presence in the finish. Medium bodied and smooth.

Bottle at the Wapiti in Estes Park, CO. Pours dark hazy gold with a whiteish head. flavor is mildly bready with some citrus like hop. Drinkable- light in flavor, though not in body.

12oz bottle. Orange-tan color, certainly closer to an Amber ( as the bottle accurately describes it) than a Golden Ale. Soapy, patchy head. Relatively straightforward smooth caramel malt tones with a touch of amber underneath. Has some similarities to a Cream Ale at times with its creamy orange-vanilla aroma and flavor. Not much hop presence, which works well in this case. Not exactly world-class, but certainly smooth session Ale.

draft at the brewpub - Somewhere I was reading at the time, must have been the menu description, said this was an "amber". Odd. That’s certainly not what I’d call it. It pours fairly clear gold and has a very mild grainy malt aroma. It’s a sweet, light bodied brew that’s too watery and while drinkable, lacking in flavor.

12oz bottle. Poured a deep gold with not much of a head. Smells a little sweet, but overall the smell is very mild. Taste starts slightly sweet and finishes with a crisp and mild hop finish. Overall, very light on the flavor.

Bottle from brewpub.
Pours an average thin corn yellow and a lively carbonated body. Aroma is plastic corn. Flaovr is sour plant water with bits of plastic corn sprinkled in for bad measure. Mouthfeel is slightly tingly but thin. Amber? More like a weak pilsner.