Wells Bombardier Burning Gold (Bottle)

Bottle from Asda. Aroma is pale ale malt, grassy small citrus note and floural honey. Taste is similar, on the sweeter side of balanced but thin enough to be quite drinkable. The hops leave a strange grainy chalky character on the tougne. Intresting wee beer.

Interesting, though not particularly nice. Overly sweet and caramel in taste with lots of malt. Not bad; not good.

Bottled. A golden coloured beer with no head. The aroma has boiled sweets and a bit of sweet vomit. The taste is sweet and greasy. Pasteurised beyond logic. Watery thin in places. Really very unpleasant and unnecessary. Doesn’t W&Y have enough beers in its portfolio?

Bottle. Golden colour with slim white head. Pasteurised aroma, some hops. Smooth and drinkable, well balanced and unremarkable. not bad.

Bottle. Golden beer with a very strong head The aroma is dry and lightly caramel, and the flavour is dry and weakly toffee. Overall a smooth drinkable beer.

Nov, 2007Pint bottle from Asda. Typical pasteurised flavour of a British bottled ale. Light, creamy caramel notes which are quite pleasant. It’s a gold colour, but it’s a fairly standard bitter with none of the features of a blond ale (no wheat, no American hops, no lager hops, no lean lager character). It’s a golden bitter. It’s sort of biscuity and gentley sweet and quite pleasant, with a modest hop note. It’s not a great beer, but it’s not terrible either. [2.5]
Jan, 2008 Delicate beers (which are not always "weak" beers) don’t do well with pasteurising. The boiled sweets flavour comes through, and the hops have the fragrance knocked off them so they simply become blunt and bitter. The aroma is boiled sweets, oak chips and -as maeib says - vomit. It’s a flat, lifeless beer of no interest whatsoever, and so many flaws and off flavours you wonder what the intention was. I suspect that Wells & Youngs are trying to get in on the interest in Golden beers, but haven’t quite understood it’s not just about the colour. [2.3]

Deep amber colour. Fresh hoppy aroma. Great balance of fresh hops and malt makes this a clean and easy to drink beer with a sharp edge on the finish.

Bottle. Uh... rank stench of skunk and ass. Some pale UK malt aroma. Quite bland with a light spiciness. Could be worse, first by getting rid of these damn clear bottles.