Wells Bombardier Burning Gold (Bottle)

Bottle (500ml - clear). Clear gold pour, average fizzy white head. Grassy and minty, medium-strong pungent "euro" hops - sort of catty and reeky, but fresh. Taste is mostly grassy, a hint of honey with the grainy malt, mildly bitter finish. Light bodied, weakly carbonated, the malt fades quickly, but it’s dry and refreshing enough, a little funky in the back-end.

Aroma is a fruity malt with some leafy hops, amber, pours a slim off-white head. Taste is a fine malt, nice woodiness too, hops mingle to a pleasant bitterness. Light bodied, balanced, nice candied after taste. Quite good!

Pale slightly cloudy gold with a thin, very fizzy and dissipating head, yet decent lacing. Light citrus and hops in the nose. Taste is very steely and harsh to me, some bitterness and grass in finish. Harsh carbonation. It burns!

500ml bottle, 4.7% a/v Pours a dark gold colour with a thin white head. Aroma is very light, some grass, wheat, and a bit malty. The taste is a playful sweet malt with a nice hops balance. The beer is a bit thin but overall successful.

Bottle (clear, boo!), LCBO. Dark golden yellow, small but thick bubbly white head, lots of streaming bubbles. Fruity, grassy, sweet aroma. Taste - nice hoppy bite mixed with fruity malt. Clear bottle had no affect, this seems fresh. Malt is very bready and cereal like, body is soft and possibly just a tad watery. Ratings surprise me, this a pretty solid English bitter in bottle form.

500 ml bottle - pours a straw-like gold with an egg-white head. Aroma of.....weirdly enough....dry dog food? But, weirdly again, not all that bad. In there too is some sawdust, musty hops and a good amount of sweet biscuity malt. Flavour slightly metallic and SLIGHTLY skunked, but not horrible - the clear glass is ill-advised as usual. Twiggy, earthy hops, slightly slick mouthfeel. OK, not great, and doesn’t do ANY justice to the poem which it attempts to honour. Much better bitters available. Not bad, but still.....pass.

500 ml bottle from the LCBO- Pours a transparent orange with a fizzy eggshell head. The nose is certainly skunked and hints at caramel, bread crust and faint hops. The flavour profile is mild grassy hops with caramel malts that are quite faded. Dry, spritzy finish with slight bitterness. Just ok.

500ml bottle from the LCBO. w00t another English bitter/ESB available at the LCBO! *rolls eyes*. I could smell funky skunk the moment it opened, although it’s tolerable, but really dominates the aroma. Flavour is quite the same, very dry upfront and in the finish, I can tell there’s plenty of hops in here but maybe they’d be easier to enjoy had they refrained from putting this one in CLEAR F***ING BOTTLES. Brewers, please, stop doing that, it really ruins the beer. This one is OK, but it would be WAY better from a brown bottle or on tap. I can’t even find much malt activity I’m so lost in the skunk and dryness. Weird unpleasantness too in the malt body.