Gordon Finest Platinum
John Martin in Genval, Walloon Brabant, Belgium 🇧🇪
Lager - Imperial Pils Regular|
Score
4.39
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An XXXtra Strong lager, Gordon Finest Platinum, a pure gem with great character, is at the very top of the strong lager category. Its high degree of alcohol gives it a powerful taste and an undeniable virility, heritage of the famous Gordon Highlander regiments. A force to be reckoned with, as though extracted from rocks that are millions of years old. Try if you can ! Gordon Finest Platinum, the most exclusive of strong sensations; in moderation of course !
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7/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Bottle at Cafe Buitenlust, Oirschot. (old rating) Dark yellow / golden color, off-white head. Decent smell and taste, mostly fruits, sweet and alcohol. Could have been worse.
Tried
from Bottle
on 28 Aug 2011
at 07:11
3.3/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 2
Texture 4
Overall 1
Imported from my RateBeer account as Gordon Finest Platinum (by John Martin):
Aroma: 5/10, Appearance: 3/5, Taste: 2/10, Palate: 2/5, Overall: 2/20, MyTotalScore: 1.4/5
8/05/2011 25cl can @ home - BB: 5/9/2010 (2011-196) Thanks to Peter for the can!
Note: you might consider the rating not to be fair, because the beer was past it's best before date. But here's the thing: beer preserves better in can, plus: Gordon puts a very early BB date on their cans so they would be consumed faster.
Clear orange beer with some beige particles floating around. Aery white head, big bubbles, dissipates fast. Aroma: sweet malts, honey, candi sugar. MF: ok carbon, medium body and alcohol numbing my whole mouth. Taste: it doesn't taste like anything but alcohol? Hard to tell! A bit fruity, some citric hops. Aftertaste: just a little bitter, but mainly alcohol the whole effin' time. Down the drain it goes, life's too short to drink bad beer.
Aroma: 5/10, Appearance: 3/5, Taste: 2/10, Palate: 2/5, Overall: 2/20, MyTotalScore: 1.4/5
8/05/2011 25cl can @ home - BB: 5/9/2010 (2011-196) Thanks to Peter for the can!
Note: you might consider the rating not to be fair, because the beer was past it's best before date. But here's the thing: beer preserves better in can, plus: Gordon puts a very early BB date on their cans so they would be consumed faster.
Clear orange beer with some beige particles floating around. Aery white head, big bubbles, dissipates fast. Aroma: sweet malts, honey, candi sugar. MF: ok carbon, medium body and alcohol numbing my whole mouth. Taste: it doesn't taste like anything but alcohol? Hard to tell! A bit fruity, some citric hops. Aftertaste: just a little bitter, but mainly alcohol the whole effin' time. Down the drain it goes, life's too short to drink bad beer.
Tried
from Can
on 08 May 2011
at 08:08
3.5/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 4
Flavor 4
Texture 2
Overall 3
cannette 50cl, Belgian malt liquor? Forcément en cannette à 12% qui se vend dans une gare, fallait pas s’attendre à une merveille. Dorée blanche Nez de malt, alcool, légèrement fruitée avec en bouche un palais pas mauvais mais qui donne juste trop d’alcool sans vraiment apporter qcq chose d’intéressant. Sucrée avec un profile qui reste sur la malt liquor, touche de houblon donne une fine amertume le tout restant submergé dans une marre d’alcool. Pas su finir 50cl de cette infection.
Tried
from Can
on 18 Apr 2011
at 07:01
4.1/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 4
Flavor 4
Texture 6
Overall 3.5
bottle from Voldby Købmandsgaard clear dark yellow, very small smooth white head aroma is primarily alcohol, secondarily malts and musk. flavor is spritty, faint malts, faint earthy herbal note. The alcohol is front and center, the other notes just sort of putting a small base for the alc. to reside on. This is like flavored vodka. Bad, bad. belgian beer. Tastes sort of like the local discount superstrong beers.
Tried
from Bottle
on 04 Apr 2011
at 11:48
3/10
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Appearance 2
Aroma 5
Flavor 2
Texture 4
Overall 2
Bottle. Frothy white virtually none fully deminishing head. Dark yellow colour. moderate malty and light hoppy aroma. Light bitter totally off flavor. Average ugly finish. Watery palate. Total drain pour but it didnt smell bad.
Tried
from Bottle
on 06 Jan 2011
at 10:28
5.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 4.5
Bottle, 75cl corked, at Plan B. There’s some micro sized floaties in the else clear pour. Golden in color, and topped by a decent off-white head. There’s canned tropical fruits on the nose, with white sugar and lots of alcohol. The flavor is syrupy with tropical fruits and alcohol, full-bodied and warming. Lasting vinous finish. Vinous and unbalanced, a beer with too much alcohol, almost like a super strong french supermarket beer, except this one was much more expensive, and also the packaging looked much better. Been there done that. 100508
Tried
from Bottle
on 22 Sep 2010
at 13:45
5.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
750ml bottle @ Plan B. Clear golden body with a diminishing white head. Aroma feels sweet and sticky from malt, sugar and alcohol with a hint of caramel. Flavor is sweet, way to sweet, candy sugar, some caramel, spicy and to much alcohol. A bit thin, but also sticky sweet body with alcohol in the finish. Not really bad, but some lack of balance and too sweet with to much alcohol flavor.
Tried
from Bottle
on 29 Jun 2010
at 11:53
3.9/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 3
Flavor 4
Texture 6
Overall 3.5
Thanks to Beer2000 for a sample of this one. Small white head over a golden body. Sweet aroma with rather bland fruits and alcohol. Tart and sweet fruits in flavour with a touch of caramel malts. A bit distracting alcohol vapour. Sticky sweetness (CBF, 08.05.2010).
Tried
on 22 May 2010
at 06:48
4/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 4
Flavor 4
Texture 4
Overall 4
Appearance: Can. Light, golden orange. Little bit of fizzy, white head. Aroma: Sweet and malt. Alcohol. Taste: Alcohol and sweet malt. Info: 500ml can, 28/1-2010
Tried
from Can
on 06 Feb 2010
at 13:22
5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 4
Overall 5
Clear amber with a tiny white head. Sweet malty aroma with fruity and yeasty notes. Flavour was sweet with malty, fruity and yeasty notes. Finished dry from the hops. Had some warming alcohol I’d say.
Tried
on 02 Feb 2010
at 13:23