Green Jack Excelsior Golden Brown Ale

Brewed by Green Jack
Style: Bitter
Lowestoft, England

Serve in English pint

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Cask@The Philarmonic, Liverpool. Clear dark amber colour with a small off white head. Pretty muted aroma with some sweet malts showing. A little sweetish fruit in the similarly malt led flavour which continued into the gently bitter finish. Inoffensive if a bit insipid.

Cask @ The Haymarket Bar, Edinburgh as Excelsior Golden Bitter as in the pump clip photograph (courtesy of mr_h). Amber brown colour, good head. Resin malt aroma. Vegetable malt flavour. Bitter aftertaste. Average bitter.

On cask at Cloisters. Pours a dark golden colour with a fair white head. Malty aroma of barley, Weetabix and yeast. Similar flavours. Mild carbonation and quite thin.

Cask (handpump) @ Three Guineas, Station Approach, Reading, Berkshire, England RG1 1LZ.

Light light unclear medium orange yellow colour with a average, frothy, good lacing, mostly lasting, off-white head. Aroma is moderate malty, toasted - caramel, apple, light yeasty, sour yeast - citrus. Flavor is moderate sweet and light to moderate bitter with a average to long duration, sour apple - citrus notes. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft to flat. [20110427]

cask at the bow ...soft fruity toffee nose ... soft sweet fruitys ... light malt ... soft juicy mellow citrus hop ... tasty

Cask (gravity) - The Triangle Tavern, Lowestoft. A clear copper coloured beer with a fine, loose & bubbly white leaving a scattered lace. Juicy orange aroma with a hint of red apple. Good, juicy sweet fruits on the tongue with a light tang, a light biscuit malt note and a subtle, dryish hop bitterness in the finish. Fair session stuff: light to medium body, soft mouthfeel with a lingering though delicate bitterness.

Cask-conditioned at the Suffolk Beer Festival, the Seven Stars, Bristol 4/07/2011. Deep gold with a slight, off-white head. Light, cereal malt and floral hop aroma with a touch of citrus fruit. Biscuity malt flavour with a touch of tangerine and bitter finish. Good.

Cask (handpump) at the Three Guineas, Reading on 27 April 2011. This seems to be a replacement for the Excelsior Golden Ale (previously a spring seasonal) that will be available year round. Exactly how it differs (apart from a lower ABV) is not entirely clear. Seemed more gold than brown to me so let’s settle on amber. Quite fruity and a little sharp - lemony citrus in evidence. Light biscuity malt underneath. A decent light quaffer.

Cask at Wellington Arms, Bedford. Copper amber with a small white head. Sweet malt aroma and straightforward malty taste. Mid bitter finish. Utterly ordinary in a good way.

Cask at the Three Guineas, Reading. Hazy golden brown colour, eventually clearing, with a loose white head. Malty aroma, and predominantly fruity malty flavour with a touch of light hops and citrus to finish. Very pleasant.