John Martin Gordon Finest Copper

Gordon Finest Copper

 

John Martin in Genval, Walloon Brabant, Belgium 🇧🇪

  Belgian Style - Blonde / Pale / Amber Regular
Score
5.27
ABV: 5.9% IBU: - Ticks: 18
Brilliant blonde with an audacious, powerful and masculine nature, Gordon Finest Copper is a genuine high-fermentation ale. Its intense gilded colour with copper reflections, supported by the force of the Gordon clan, gives it a rough but brave and courageous nature. This roughness of appearance expressed by the rivets is rounded and polished by the rigorously selected top-quality ingredients. Slightly strong, it allures from the very first sip by a totally smooth and simply exquisite taste. Easy to drink, like a deep-throated caress !
 

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5.9
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 5.5

Can. A golden beer with a white head. The aroma has notes of straw and malt. The flavor is sweet with notes of malt and straw, leading to a bitter finish.

Tried from Can on 06 May 2020 at 16:52


3.8
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 3 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 4

50cl can from Delhaize. Pours clear golden with a quickly thinning, white head. The weak aroma contains malt, hops, grass and iron. It tastes medium sweet and light grassy/hoppy bitter into the finish. Astringent finish, light body, soft/fizzy carbonation. Not as unpleasant as the other versions in the Finest series, but totally underwhelming and redundant.

Tried from Can on 10 Jun 2017 at 07:17


5
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 5

F: white, not long lasting, lacing on the glass. C: clear gold. A: malt, some fruit, caramel, hint of grassy hop. T: malty, candy sugar, hint of like fruity/honey, some grassy tones, medium body, below-average carbonation, nothing special but nothing awful.

Tried from Can on 20 Oct 2015 at 12:15


3.5
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 3 | Flavor - 3 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 4

Can, golden colour, white foam. Metallic and sweet malty. Notes of corn. Almost no bitterness. Not good.

Tried from Can on 18 Feb 2015 at 11:44


5.1
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 4.5

50 cL can. Pours clear and golden orange with a small white head. Aroma is toasted malty. Sweet, light metallic and toasted malty. Bitter and dry toasted malty.

Tried from Can on 25 Jan 2015 at 07:09


4.9
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 4.5

The can I bought mentions an ABV of 5,9%, so I assume the 6,6% given above has been downtuned meanwhile... Anyway, this is one of the few top-fermented beers in the Gordon Finest range, a deep ’old gold’ coloured ale with quiet sparkling, cristal clear, under an off-white, creamy but quickly diminishing, slightly lacing head. Artificial aroma: something has been added here, but I can’t quite put my finger on it. Smells of lemon candy, powder sugar, rotting apples, industrial honey, slightly sourish wheat (increasing as it warms up), sweaty grains (dito), iron, vanilla pudding, cooked vegetables, banana-flavored bubble gum, even a hint of alcohol which is surprising for a beer with average ABV. Taste is sweet, somewhat sugary, somewhat chalky, pale malt sweetness, wheaty touch, rather soft carbonation, slick and thinnish, a bit grainy, somewhat metallic, hint of grassy hops in the finish but very low bitterness - it’s that strange initial sweetness which cloys a bit rather than hops - and even sticks to the teeth. The finish is therefore somewhat on the watery side, and, adding insult to injury, does not reveal the alcohol very well, as a certain sweetish alcohol warmth turns up - something I’d expect from a beer at least 2% stronger. Less off-putting than the bottom-fermented Gordons, but still a cheaply made and totally redundant, not very pleasant beer without noteworthy complexity and an artificial, oversweetened palate. Aimed at alcoholics like the other ones, I assume. If the idea was to make a top-fermented and sugary equivalent of a bland pale lager, and I would not even be surprised if this were the case, mission accomplished.

Tried from Can on 08 Nov 2014 at 09:07


4.5
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 3 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 5

50cl can shared with Kermis. Thin white head. Clear golden pour. Boring. Malty. Thin bodied. Not great.

Tried from Can on 07 Jul 2014 at 11:01


4.3
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 4

Bottle shared at the get Dean to 5000 tasting, thanks to Deanso. Pours clear golden with a bubbly white head. Aroma of grain, light fruit and malt. Flavour is moderate sweet and light bitter. Light bodied with soft carbonation.

Tried from Bottle on 07 Jul 2014 at 11:01


5.8
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

33 cl can smells a bit sweet ok carbo sweet , malts, bit honey , bit metallic . doable, especialy for gordon’s standards sweet back , bit sugar

Tried from Can on 05 Dec 2013 at 01:55


6.3
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6

50 cl. picked up from the nightshop. Drank straight from the can. Smell is sweet rye, caramel, black bread & raw booze, less bad than expected. Thaste is a mix of very bitter leaves, bark & forest upfront followed by brown sugar, rye, dark bread, hersb & raw unfiltered booze. Pretty okay to drink but feels heavier than 6.6 % ABV. Okay by Gordon standards.

Tried from Can on 06 Oct 2013 at 16:08