Mighty Oak Maldon Gold

Brewed by Mighty Oak
Style: Golden Ale/Blond Ale
Maldon, England

Serve in English pint, Shaker

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A Mes rate: Gravicask at GBBF. Clean gold colour. Lightly sweet and fruity aroma. Bitter hop flavour with a pleasant dry finish. I’ll agree with Ian on the sherbert notes. Not bad. Very drinkable session stuff.

UPDATED: MAY 26, 2012 Cask at CPK. Pours a pale, clear yellow with a creamy, white head. Biscuity nose, hints of tangy hops. Flavor is lightly sweet, quite biscuity, some tangy citrus, slight straw. Light bodied with fine carbonation. Crispy malt finish, hints of white sugar, biscuits, faint grass, straw, mild earth linger. Decent. (3.6)

Cask at the Holborn Whippet, London. Pours clear gold with a faint white foam. Basic golden ale characteristics here: dry hay, biscuits, light lemony citrus. Light bodied with fine carbonation. A decent low ABV beer. (3.4)

Cask at Oxford Beer Festival 11-10-07 Pours light golden with nice tight white head. Really fresh citrus hop aroma. Tasted Fresh, hoppy zingy and juicy, this beer had a lovely tanginess to it.

Pint handpulled at The Swan Hotel in Maldon. Amber golden body under a film-type head. Hop floral aroma. Mild fruit qualities in taste mixed with light malt sweetness. Rounded and dry bitter ending. Thirst quenching and rather moreish (Maldon, Essex 03.05.2008).

Considering the style, Scores ranging from 1 to 5, 5 being the most intense
Appearance:
Body:   Clear(1)->Murky(5) : 3     Pale Yellow(1)->Dark brown(5) : 2     Still(1)->Sparkling(5) : 2
Head:   None(1)->Large(5) : 2   White(1)->Tan(5) : 1   Lasting: 1   Lacing : 2
Aroma:
Intensity : 2  
Yeast : 2   Bread : XX   Apple : XX   Tropical Fruits : XX   Soap : 2   DMS : XX   Diacetyl : XX Sulfur : XX  
Malt : 3   Biscuity : 2   Hay : 3   Toasty : 2   Caramel : XX   Nuts : XX   Honey : 2   Cereals : 2   Grainy : XX
Hops : 3   Noble(1)->American(5) : 1   Leafy : 2   Spicy : 4   Floral : 3   Lemon/Lime : 3   Grapefruit : XX   Orange : XX   Herbal : XX   Grassy : 2   Pine/Spruce/Resin : XX  
Notes :   Peach/Apricot : XX   Earth : XX   Mint : XX   Butterscotch : XX   Smoke : XX
Flavor:
Initial Flavor : Dry(1)->Sweet(5) : 3   Finish Dry(1)->Sweet(5) : 2   Sourness : XX   Bitterness : 3   Complex : XX   Length : XX
Palate:
Light(1)->Full(5) : 2   Flat(1)->Fizzy(5) : 2   Clean : XX   Sharp : XX   Watery : 2   Oily : XX   Chalk : XX   Astringent : XX   Alcohol : XX   Mineral : XX   Oxidation : XX   Metallic : XX

Comments: This CAMRA’s 2007 beer of the year is a citrusy, flowery well balanced and crisp golden ale. Very mineral example, but pleasant and drinkable.

Cask. Low but lasting fluffy off-white head. Clear golden body. Fruity honey aroma. Fruity flavor, basically pears, honey flavor with a nice bitterness. Low carbonation. Long bitter sweet aftertaste.

Cask@Bedford BF. Slightly floral (with a hint of sulphur-which eventually subsided). Pale bready malty. Some nice kiwi fruit hop flavours, Bit and dry, slightly dusty, quite pleasant.

(Cask at GBBF, London, 9 Aug 2007) Golden yellow colour with green tinges, brief white head. Fruity nose with lemon peel, spicy notes of grassy hops and biscuity malt aromas. Fruity taste with notes of lemon, grapefruit and grassy hops in the finish. Underlying biscuity malt character. Balanced and very fresh.

Cask-conditioned at the Cask & Kitchen, London 5/06/10. Pale gold with a slight white head. Hoppy grapefruit aroma. Flavour had more of the same with a touch of sweet malt and dry finish. Good.

[Cask conditioned] Golden coloured. Quite some hops in this one. The bitterness is very sharp though.