 Goldorak (427), Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Oct 16, 2005
<i>Sampled on-tap at Vices & Versa, Montreal</i><br />
An amber/copper brew with patches of clingy head.
<br />I guess the pint was too cold at first, and the bar too smokey, but I couldn’t register anything. At about the half-way point the sweetish, resinous hop aroma started to slowly creep out from under the head.
<br />Pretty tasty amber malt body and plenty of bittering hops, you can see they tweaked the recipe in the past year or so as it has a lot more body and aftertaste than it used to. This stuff would be killer on cask.
rodenbach99 (472), Longueuil, Quebec, Canada
Aug 30, 2008 brown 341ml. bottle, copper with a dense head, nice head retention. thin but good mouth, fruity. little or no aftertaste. nice ordinary pale ale.
Glouglouburp (2113), Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Dec 7, 2007 <b>In short: </b>A dry fizzy Session Pale Ale. As drinkable as it is forgettable.<br />
<b>How: </b>Bottle 341ml many times. Most recently I bought all their products because rumours are that they will stop to bobble for an indefinite period of time<br />
<b>The look: </b>Clear golden body with a big white head with low retention.<br />
<b>In long: </b>Fizzy beer with dry citrus and peppery hops. Malts offer very little in terms of caramel or anything. The beer is overall pretty dry. Lots of small aggressive bubbles and a fluffy body. A softer carbonation could have helped. Hops have this dry english-like feeling to them along with more tradition American citrusy hops. Finish is rather long but not very bitter. Finish flavour is dry grass and dried orange with a mild bitterness. The beer started as a so-so product but eventually attained “decent” status by end of 2005. I can’t believe I used to drink that stuff all the time many years ago. So now part of my rotten liver comes from the Golden Heart… what a waste.
AgedOak (62), Ohio, USA
Jun 28, 2007 Hazy golden toned brilliance having a very puffed off white head. My bottle was very carbonated with an enormous amount of bubbles rising to the top and many clinging to the sides. A mild fruity but very hoppy malt flavor to this beer. The aroma was much the same as the taste. A medium bodied beer which was in fact very good and became better as it warmed. By the way my bottle had a way cooler label then is displayed here.
Snoro (186), Montréal, Quebec, Canada
Jan 4, 2007 Sans arrière-goût, sans goût très prononcé, un peu amer. Elle n’a pas une grosse mousse qui dure longtemps.
blankboy (2687), Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Dec 31, 2006 <i>Bottle courtesy of Viper666.</i> Pours a very bubbly amber-orange with a large lasting off-white head. Aroma’s a little odd, there’s sweet malt, fruit and hops and something else odd I can’t place. I found it got better as it sat for a while (was 5 but I bumped it to 6). Flavour’s much better: malty with a nice amount of hops -- it’s pretty tasty. Medium bodied. I didn’t think I was going to like this very much but it surprised me, it’s really easy to drink and enjoyable.
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