Sulwath Galloway Gold

Brewed by Sulwath
Style: Pilsener
Castle Douglas, Scotland

Serve in Flute, Footed Pilsner

Cask Bon Accord. Pours clear golden. No discernable nose. Taste is almost Zambuck and Oddfellows. Another Sulwath for others with more liberal tastes. Poor.

Bottle. Not your typical pilsener - perhaps the bizarre love child of a Czech lager and a British golden ale. The result is better than that description would have you believe. In amongst the usual suspects of hops and citrus I also picked up a waft of smoke and banana. This poured crystal clear in just the right shade of yellow (for the wrong shade of yellow, see Miller Genuine Draft). The head, whilst small, hung around for a lot longer than one would expect from a bottled lager, with a nice amount of lacing. There’s a lot going on with the palate: both sweet and bitter; smooth yet carbonated, with just the right amount of effervescence to keep the tongue tingling without ensuring you’ll be burping the National Anthem on the way home. The end result is a very unusual pilsner but a very satisfying one.

Bottle. Golden colour with a white head. Aroma is fruit, malt, citrus. Flavour is fruit, malt, citrus, hay, hop. Too carbonated.

Bottle 500ml.

Clear medium yellow color with a large to huge, frothy, good lacing, fully lasting, white to off-white head. Aroma is moderate malty, toasted, bicycle tube - rubber aroma. Flavor is moderate sweet and light to moderate bitter with a long duration, rubber, sweet rubber. Body is medium to light, texture is watery to oily, carbonation is soft. [20110318]

Bottle, courtesy of fonefan. A gusher, producing a big foamy head soon reduced into a finger-thick layer of dense, white bubbles. The aroma has a fruity hoppyness as well as a distinct rubbery touch. Super effervescent on the palate, medium to thin. Rubbery flavor with fruits and pale malts. Sure a beer gone bad, but as it wasn’t past BB-date, I have no other choice but to axe it. 110318

Bottle@Ulfsborg tasting.Pours golden with a big white gushing head.Aroma is herbal and fruity with some malty notes.Flavor of malt , yellow apples and malt.Medium body, lively carbonation.Not very exciting.

Bottle @ Norway/Denmark Tasting @ Ulfborg. Courtesy of Fonefan. Pours clear golden with a frothy white head. Lots of rubber. Yeast and rubber . .Gusher . . Coming out of nowhere like an invisble man masturbating!

From cask at Standing Order. Pours hazy to cloudy orange with a small to no head. Aroma is crisp hops fruity, slight mango and oranges. Peachy and dry hoppy. Fruity and bitter citrusy to peachy finish.