Gordon Finest Red

Brewed by John Martin (Scottish & Newcastle)
Style: Amber Lager/Vienna
Genval, Belgium

Serve in Dimpled mug, Lager glass, Shaker

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Una delle prime rosse che ho amato, non eccezionale ma una buona birra per ogni occasione

Clear redish amber with small foam head. Not to much aroma, some caramel, sweet. Taste is like a watery brune, the alcohol is compensating. (Velp, 201205)

50cl can. Love me concert beers on a parking lot, refined flavours? Couleur rousse, col beige/blanc. Le tout reste très doux avec ce relent de faux sucre E150 bien indiqué, et ce profile cerise industrielle. Note de grains et caramel avec un fini dans les normes de houblons nobles laissant ce profile typique métallique. Je donne le bénéfice du doute, la moins mauvaise de la série, mais ça reste de la grosse production avec un publique bien ciblé, genre les dehors de la gare centrale de Bxls.

December 2006 review from BA: I bought this can from a Night Shop in Brussels, as I staggered back to my hotel after an evening of beer tasting. Thank God I didn’t drink it that night, or my head would have exploded. There would have been blood all over the bathroom mirror and all sorts of problems with getting my body home etc. The 8.4% alcohol takes over this drink completely. It looked very good, poured into my Gordon’s Thistle glass. not really red, more a copper/amber colour, but bright and clean looking. Caramel and yeast, no other aroma. Strange taste, not an Irish Red, nor a Belgian Red, more like a dark lager, sweet, but also a dryness which takes away the flavour of malts and hops. A battle between the sweet and dryness is not won by either side and the aftertaste just goes. I would rather have two tasty 4.2% beers than this alcohol laden brew, but as a one off, not a bad beer.

This is surely a Belgian Strong Ale??? Deep red-brown colour. Aroma has sweet red fruits, syrup, jam. Flavour is similar. Low carbonation. Quite silky but also a bit thin.

33cl bottle. Clear dark red colour with small head. Aromna has little spice and alcohol. Taste si pretty boring. Little fruity and spicy. Ends bit bitter. Weird salty aftertaste.

A Belgian beer that "recalls the colours of the Highlands". Wow! :) The colour is candid sugar, aroma sweet alcoholic with malts, the taste does not have as much alcohol as I expected. There’s not really a finish. Probably good with burgers...

Clear reddish - deep amber body. Off-white head, fastly diminishing. Weak aroma, bit malty and alcoholic. Lightly bitter, moderately sweet flavour. Quite weak and uninteresting, I would not say bad, just very unpronounced flavour.

From backlog

Head: none
Colour; dark amberish/red
Smell: very irony and sweet malts, hops to bitter it out a bit
Taste: start is very malty, then comes in a sweet irony taste, end is sticky with a burn ... brrrr

500 ml can. From finestshop.be.
Clear mahogany colour with small off-white head. Malty almondy alcohol accompanied with caramel sweetness in aroma. Flavour is pretty much the same. More alcohol but otherwise just malt and almond. Tiny hints of bitterness. Slighlty more tolerable than Silver one. The description is like a joke.