16 ounce can from Amity Wines, New Haven. Pours a clear golden color with a large white head. Good head retention. Aroma of some faint citrus and not much else. The taste is pale malts, apple and citrus. Thin bodied. Not horrible.

Can courtesy of Numenor on 02/15/2009. Clear pale yellow body with a medium frothy white head. Sweet corn and honey aroma with some spicy hints. Sweet corn flavor, some faint honey and slight malty notes. Medium body with moderate carbonation.

Pours a clear golden color with a medium and fizzy white head that dissipates steadily. Stringy lacing. Grainy malt aroma with some corn and weird-smelling hops. Light-bodied with tart sour fruit, earthy malt and light hops. The finish is more grain and malt, with an off-tasting hops aftertaste. Very one dimensional and barely above a drain pour.

bottle - Pours light and clear yellow with a thin head. The aroma is very light malt. The flavor is also very mild, tasting mostly of malt and corn. This beer is thin bodied, inoffensive, and finishes light too. Meh. I also have a hard time believing it’s America’s best selling ale. I’d never even seen it before.

Can. Bizarre aroma of tin and rotting corn - like opening an old can of Green Giant. Golden yellow with moderate head. Thank God it doesn’t taste like it smells - sweet bariey and corn but hard to get past that stench - possibly an old can but am afraid to try again.

12 oz green bottle, twist off cap to smell a little skunk. But, when you pour it into your mug it is a slight wheatish. The flavor is a bit rough considering it claims to be americas largest selling ale, is that true? Seems, from my experiences it cannot be true. The taste sensation is a bit offensive, with hints of astringentness. Not as behaved as I would like, perhaps gentleman like qualities are those of a lager and this claims to be ale. So the only other golden ale that I drank before this was Kochs Golden Anniversary. I don’t know how this could fall into the same style. I’m pretty sure that Kochs is a lager of some sort, I’ll have to check. Not bad but the finish leaves some smoothness to be desired. Kochs is 30 cents a can and I paid 2$ for this. This certainly has no gag reflex to it as Kochs does.

I first saw this beer in forty form, but haven’t had the chance to taste in until my father unwittingly purchased a case of this. I must have mocked him for 10 minutes before I actually tried the beer. For an ale it was bad. Drinkable... I guess, but bad. There are way worse beers out there, but this watery ale, without much noticable flavour is certainly not amongst the better. And it is true, as another reviewer mentioned, this tastes more like a lager than an ale (maybe it is actually a lager in disguise?).