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Leelanau Good Harbor Golden

Leelanau Good Harbor Golden

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96
overall
A Bière de Garde brewed by
Leelanau Brewing Company

Lake Leelanau, Michigan USA

bottled
common

on tap
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683.79/5.03.77/5.07.5%97.4 Snifter P  Stats

Commercial Description:
The traditional bière de garde was a hearty solid beer that was fit for storing to use as compensation to farmhands instead of gold. After a long day in the Leelanau sun we would rather get paid in this beer than gold. Good Harbor Golden celebrates its magnificent appeal as a stoic, solid, quiet-type ale. Because the beer spends so long in the oak it won't be ready for the public until sometime in May.

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 egajdzis (2947), Terrapin, Pennsylvania, USA
3.8 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/104/57/103/516/20

May 2, 2008  
Poured a hazy golden color with a medium sized white head that left light lacing on the glass. Aroma of brett, oak, vanilla, wild yeast, citrus, and apple. Taste of citrus, green apple, oak, vanilla, and a lightly sour finish.

 mcbackus (623), Merritt Island, Florida, USA
3.9 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/104/57/103/517/20
Aug 20, 2008  
bottle shared by JMFG: pours a great golden hay colour with a good white head. aroma is a good funk, slight lemon, barrel, adn a good amount of malts too. flavour is a tart citrus flavour , again with good funkiness and some of the barrel, slight lemon good ber.


 Beershine (1207), Miami Beach, Florida, USA
3.7 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/103/58/104/514/20
Aug 20, 2008  
At Vero. Hazy pale yellow with small off-white head. Pedio funk aroma. Smooth soft mouthfeel. Pedio, smooth, seed oil. Smooth, relatively simple and very nice.


 smith4498 (332), Miami, Florida, USA
3.8 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/104/57/104/516/20
Aug 18, 2008  
Bottle courtesy of JMFG. Pours cloudy hay color with white head. Sour, funky aroma. Sour and sweet flavors with some funkiness and oak also. Medium body with average carbonation. It has that signature Jollly Pumpkin flavor to it. A very nice beer.


CapnCascade (40), Calgary, Alberta, Canada
4.1 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
9/104/58/103/517/20
Aug 14, 2008  
Pours hazy golden, rich white head with good retention. Aroma is woody, somewhat musty with a hint of sweet fruit and a noticeable suggestion of sourness. Flavor starts quite sweet, then develops a woody sourness that lingers through a long sour finish. Fairly light mouthfeel with light carbo. Really nice. I’m told this is actually a Jolly Pumpkin beer, which doesn’t surprise...chalk another one up in their column!


 AmEricanbrew (907), Left Coast, Louisiana, USA
3.9 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/104/58/104/516/20
Aug 13, 2008  
Hazy gold with a frothy white head. Nice aroma is spicy, cracker malts with a whiff of barnyard funk and wood. Frothy expansive mouthfeel. Mildly sour with flavors of dusty pale malts, dry wood and tart lemon and spices. A nicely complex pale brew here.




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