Great Western Classic Gold

Brewed by Great Western
Style: Golden Ale/Blond Ale
Bristol, England

Serve in English pint, Shaker

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Cask-conditioned at the Rising Sun, S Gloucs 22/4/08. Deep golden colour with a slight, off-white head. Light aroma of grassy hops with a touch of sweet fruit. Flavours of sweet malt and earthy hops before a short, dry finish. Ok.

Bottle from Vale Brewery Shop, Brill, Bucks, 29-07-10 Pours gold decent clarity, white a clean head. The nose is sweet & malty with some citrus. The flavour was predominantly toffee but with a little fruit notably citrus, malts and a little too much boiled sweety flavour for me. A6 A4 T5 P3 Ov11 2.9

Cask @ GBBF 2009. Pours a golden color with a small white head. Has a fruity hoppy aroma with some weak hints of caramel. Fruity malty hoppy flavor with some hints of citrus. Has a fruity malty hoppy finish with some bitterness in the aftertaste.

Cask Handpump at the GBBF, Earls Court 04/08/2009 Floral hop aroma. Golden coloured and hoppy with a crisp and slightly dry grainy finish.

Golden with a small white head. Aroma is malty with a weak fruity note. Sweet and malty flavour with biscuit and fruit

Cask at GBBF 2009 ... amber ... light musty lemon nose ... dull soft fruits ... ligth bitterness.

(Cask at GBBF, London Earl’s Court, 5 Aug 2009) Golden colour with foamy, off-white head. Malty, fruity nose with notes of peaches, citrus and honey. Malty, fruity taste with dried fruit, biscuits and honey. Below medium body, fairly sweet. Some lemony, floral hops in the finish. Clean and refreshing, hardly exciting.

Cask@GBBF2009. Deep golden colour, not much head. Aroma is pineapple, mango, some wooden notes as well as mild nectary notes. Flavour is quite much the same with focus on wooden and sweet nectary fruity notes.

Cask@GBBF 2009. Deep golden-amber color, small white head. Dishwater, iron, a bit diacetylic caramelly aroma. Nutty flavor with some pale malts and caramel in the background. Dry, woody aftertaste.

Cask gravity @ Reading Beer Festival 2008.
Clear light yellow orange color with a average, frothy - fizzy, fair lacing, mostly diminishing, off-white to white head. Aroma is light to moderate malty, toasted, hoppy, flowers, lemon, butttery. Flavor is moderate sweet and light bitter with a average duration. Body is medium, texture is oily to watery, carbonation is flat. (030508)

A Mes rate: Gravicask at Reading Beer Festival.
Bright gold with a decent white head. Good citric hops with some nice earthy malt. Light bready notes with some icing sugar sweetness. Could do with some more hoppage in the flavour but not a bad beer over all.