Sun Valley Gretchens Gold Lager

Brewed by Sun Valley Brewing
Style: Premium Lager
Hailey, Idaho USA

Serve in Lager glass

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My beer doesn’t look like the others. Go figure. Brew is quite hazy and gold going brown with a small white cap that fades to a ring. Leaves some small slippery spotty lacing. Aroma is very interesting and I will have to say that I’ve never smelt anything like this before. Kinda powerdery, bready malts, vanilla, odd and very fruity hops - nectarine?? blueberries?? I dunno. Maybe a fruit with more of a nutty quality. Taste is also bizzare. Bready / grainy malts, there’s that odd sweet nutty fruit again. Too bad it’s on the watery side - a letdown after smelling my glass. Has a zippy hop taste or it is aftertaste? How odd. Thin mouthfeel, tiny carb bubbs and lots of them on the swish, finishes zippy but watery. Has a quickly fading aftertaste of, well, nothing. Very unique brew. I recommend getting this just for it’s interesting mix of qualities.

3/8/08 On draught at the Sun Valley Lodge. Aroma is corny, sweet, fruity, with very low hop flora. Appearance is hazy gold with a low white head. Flavor is very sweet with high caramel and medium bittering. Mouthfeel is lightly creamy, medium/low bodied with a moderate carb feel. Overall, one of the best light lagers I’ve had in years.

On tap at brewpub. Pours out a light gold. Topped with a nice white head. I don’t even want to say much. It is like a micro bud.

The 2nd Sun Valley beer that was brought back from a recent trip to ID. The aroma was really bready and fruity. Very enticing nose. Appearance was clear yellow with a nice head. Mouthfeel was soft and round, light and refreshing. The beer had a nice hoppy bite that matched well with the sweet malts making this one really excellent session beer.

Bottle: Clear dark gold color with a fragile, bubbly white head that dissipates quickly. The aroma is that kind that gives you a sick stomach -overly sweet grains, a little skunk and some aluminum. The taste is a little better than the aroma. It seems to be dominated by malts and a corn flavor. The feel is ok and leaves a not too bad aftertaste in your mouth.

Bottled. Pale yellow pour with a white head. Malty and somewhat fruity aroma. Clean, malt forward beer. A pleasant surprise.

In a 12-oz. bottle in Boise, Idaho (hotel). Poured with deep gold color with a slight white head. An early malty aroma matched with a light body and well-carbonated light malty-sweet flavor. Finished on the dry side.

Sweet, bready-grain nose; clean, toasty flavor without alot of charactor; faint, spicy hop finish with a ghosty bitterness; quite decent when compared with some of their other offerings, and not at all a bad brew. Very drinkable.

Bottle: Dull golden, hazy, very minor fizzy head, dies quickly, spotty lacing.   Musty grainy nose, a little sourness is exhibited as well.   Pale malt flavor, somewhat weak, but fairly clean.   Not as sour as suggested by the nose.   Not very crisp tho, leaving a rough wheat like coating in the mouth.   Body and mouthfeel are a bit on the thin side.   Pretty uninteresting.   Thanks Ken and Jordan for the bottles!

Color is a deep yellow, amber with a minimal white head. Aroma is a faint combination of hops and malt. Taste is again mild, with malt, grain, and a woodlike flavor. Very soothing to drink, finishes with a clean and dry note.