Mango Cart
Golden Road Brewing in Los Angeles, California, United States 🇺🇸
Wheat Ale Regular|
Score
6.38
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First in a series inspired by the iconic fruit cart vendors of Los Angeles. A light Wheat Ale bursting with lots of fresh mango flavor and aroma, finishing crisp and refreshing.
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7.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
12 ounce can into pint glass, canned on 7/29/2018. Pours very hazy/cloudy medium golden yellow color with a 1-2 finger fairly dense and fluffy white head with poor retention, that reduces to nothing pretty quickly. No lacing, some clinging bubbles and streaming carbonation. Good appearance. Aromas of juicy, lightly tart/tangy mangoes, fruit skin, lemon, peach, pear, melon, red apple, wheat, cracker, and white bread dough; with light notes of banana, peppercorn, clove, herbal, floral, grass, and yeast earthiness. Nice and pleasant aromas with good balance and complexity of mangoes, fruity/light spicy yeast, and pale/wheat malt notes; with solid strength. Taste of juicy, lightly tart/tangy mangoes, fruit skin, lemon, peach, pear, melon, red apple, wheat, cracker, and white bread dough; with light notes of banana, peppercorn, clove, herbal, floral, grass, and yeast earthiness. Light herbal, floral, grassy bitterness; fruit/wheat tang/tartness; and yeast spiciness on the finish. Lingering notes of mangoes, fruit skin, lemon, peach, pear, melon, red apple, wheat, cracker, white bread dough, light banana/pepper/clove, herbal, floral, grass, and yeast earthiness on the finish for a good bit. Very nice complexity, robustness, and balance of mangoes, fruity/light spicy yeast, and pale/wheat malt flavors; with a great malt/bitter/spiciness, and tart/tangy fruit balance; with no cloying/astringent flavors after the finish. Fairly crisp/clean finishing. Light-moderate increasing dryness from lingering bitter/spiciness, tart/tangy fruit, and carbonation. Medium-plus carbonation and light-medium body; with a very smooth, moderately creamy/grainy, and fairly sticky/acidic/tangy balanced mouthfeel that is great. Zero warming alcohol as expected of 4%. Overall this is a very nice fruited American pale wheat ale. All around nice complexity, robustness, and balance of mangoes, fruity/light spicy yeast, and pale/wheat malt flavors; very smooth, refreshing, and fairly crisp/clean to drink with the mildly bitter/spicy/tart/tangy/drying finish. Very flavorful and not watery for the ABV. Well balanced authentic mango and American wheat yeast complexity; with a great pale/wheat malt backbone for the ABV. Minimal residual sweetness with crisp dryness. A very enjoyable offering, and impressive base style example.
Tried
from Can
on 30 Jul 2019
at 21:12
6.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6
12 ounce can from Woodman's Kenosha, 5/26/19. Hazy lemon yellow, medium frothy white head, good retention. Aroma of mango and pale malt. Taste is mango, banana, pale malt, lime. Medium bodied, syrupy. Solid.
Tried
from Can
on 30 May 2019
at 03:04
7.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Can. A- Mango. A- Orange color, clear liquid, white head. T- Mango. P- Light body, average texture, average carbonation, balanced finish. O-These Golden Road Cart beers are a nice refreshing surprise. Lots of ripe mango in here that comes across as natural. Balanced sweetness and while one-dimensional, very tasty.
Tried
from Can
on 16 May 2019
at 21:43
5/10
Tried
from Draft
on 09 May 2019
at 18:45
6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 4
Overall 6
12oz can picked up at Harmons. Pours slightly cloudy light yellow with a medium sized white head, light lacing. Mango, wheat and mild citrus. Decent
Tried
from Can
on 16 Apr 2019
at 03:53
6.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6
(tap) hazy, bright yellow colour with a small white head; aroma of mango; light, balanced flavour with no finish
Tried
from Draft
on 27 Mar 2019
at 21:19
7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Can from Total Wine in Folsom, CA. Pours slightly hazy perry color with a large foamy white head. Mango wafts from the poor. Aroma very like freshly cut ripe mango. Med body minus a little. Flavor is mostly mango. Think a little wheat is detectable. Fruity and neither dry nor undry. Not bitter. Lake beer!
Tried
from Can
on 18 Mar 2019
at 00:15
5.1/10
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Appearance 2
Aroma 5
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
$2.29 can, Total Wine, Gainesville. Hazy pale gold, chunks like mad, inch of white head. Guessing the chunks aren't supposed to be there; if they are, they look really effing nasty. Aroma is mango, cat piss. Flavor is mango, wheat, light grass. That's it.
Tried
from Can
on 02 Mar 2019
at 21:51
5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 4
Overall 5
Can from BewMO! in Marina del Ray. Hazy yellow with a white head. Sweetish with mostly mango both in the aroma and taste. The mouthfeel was quite thin. Nothing special.
Tried
from Can
on 05 Feb 2019
at 16:34
6.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Refrigerated 12 oz. aluminum can poured into a glass. Cloudy with small white head. Aroma is mango, medium body, lower carbonation, and very little lacing. Taste is wheat esters and mango.
Tried
from Can
on 23 Oct 2018
at 01:06