John Martin Gordon Finest Platinum

Gordon Finest Platinum

 

John Martin in Genval, Walloon Brabant, Belgium 🇧🇪

  Lager - Imperial Pils Regular
Score
4.39
ABV: 12.0% IBU: - Ticks: 70
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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4.1/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 4 Flavor 3 Texture 6 Overall 3.5
Bottle at KØ07. Clear golden colour, small white head. Caramelly flavour, very peppery and harsh. Too much pepper. Way unbalanced.
Tried from Bottle on 10 Jun 2007 at 14:04

4.6/10 Appearance 4 Aroma 4 Flavor 4 Texture 8 Overall 4.5
Bottled. A golden beer with next to no head. The aroma is sweet with strong notes of alcohol and fruit, but also a light metallic note from the alcohol. The flavor is sweet with notes of caramel, fruit, alcohol, and metal, and the body is quite thick.
Tried from Bottle on 18 May 2007 at 06:56

3.6/10 Appearance 4 Aroma 4 Flavor 3 Texture 4 Overall 3.5
(Can 50 cl) Clear, yellow with an off-white head. Sweetish aroma of malt and alcohol. Medium body with sweet malt notes and a brutal finish filled with bittering hops and alcohol. Hard to imagine, that this is an ale. It really resembles a primitive European Malt Liquor. And it’s a joke that this beer is now marketed in sophisticated 75 cl bottles as an exclusive product. One must laugh. 060507
Tried from Can on 06 May 2007 at 13:53

5.2/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 5 Flavor 5 Texture 6 Overall 5
Sample from bottle at Ølbaren. Pours filtered orange. Aroma is malty and hoppy. Taste is sweet malty with a soft mouthfeel. Finish is bitter, slight sour and spicy. Endd dry.
Tried from Bottle on 15 Apr 2007 at 02:41

2.4/10 Appearance 4 Aroma 2 Flavor 2 Texture 4 Overall 1.5
Fancylooking bottle (thanks?!? for sharing goes to omhper!). "The original wifebeater beer". Golden colour, small head. Aroma is glue, alcohol, paper and very unpleasant. Flavour is glue, sweet malts, alcohol. Very malt liquorish...
Tried from Bottle on 20 Mar 2007 at 07:21

2.9/10 Appearance 4 Aroma 3 Flavor 2 Texture 4 Overall 2.5
Bottled at Akkurat. Clear golden, brief airy head. Aroma of strawberry esters, glue and thinner. Extremely sweet with clean mouthfeel. Saccharine and syrup tries to keep the onslaught of alcohol back, but first some estery higher alcohols seep through and then in the finish the floodgates bursts open to the cheap grappa-like burning alcohol. Belgian malt liquor?
Tried from Bottle on 11 Mar 2007 at 08:15

3.5/10 Appearance 4 Aroma 2 Flavor 5 Texture 6 Overall 2
Draught: Poured golden color with huge thick head. The aroma was nonexistent. Metallic spice flavor. Not my type of beer!
Tried on 04 Mar 2007 at 10:35

4.1/10 Appearance 4 Aroma 4 Flavor 4 Texture 4 Overall 4.5
On tap at the Pianeta Birra, Rimini, Italy.
Pale golden coloured, small white head, sweet alcoholic nose. There’s almost nothing in this beer except sweet malt and too pronounced alcohol taste.
Tried from Draft on 16 Feb 2007 at 05:57

5.4/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 5 Flavor 6 Texture 4 Overall 5.5
Golden color. The aroma is too weak. The flavor is also not special, but drinkable; medium thick body, not oily, strong bitterness, the alcohol warms a lot in the end.

They didn’t need to put such a simple drinkable Strong Lager in a fancy 75cl bottle like that.
Tried from Bottle on 06 Dec 2006 at 02:32

6/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 6 Flavor 5 Texture 6 Overall 6
Golden orange beer, heavily carbonated; good yellowish head, slowly disappearing. Some alcohol, sweet-ish, sweet condensed milk, whisky-like finish. Fully burning sensation, raw malty-alcoholic taste. Sweet-sugar-cloying builds up gradually. Peppery flavour and MF, partly the alcohol. Alcohol is obvious but compared to its actual content, relatively subdued. Fiery throatwarming after some time. raw, terribly unrefined beer. If this is an ale, about which I don’t hazard any guess, then this is the top-fermenting equivalent of malt liquor Remains where it is brewed. I do hope not Palm. My guess? Bavaria at Lieshout!
Tried on 28 Mar 2005 at 02:52