Endurance Glacier Gold
Ipswich Ale Brewery in Ipswich, Massachusetts, United States 🇺🇸
Golden / Blonde Ale Regular Out of Production|
Score
6.42
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ben4321 (11632) reviewed Endurance Glacier Gold from Ipswich Ale Brewery 17 years ago
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5
July 2008 Beer of the Month Club
Overall Impression: Smooth citric flavor, nice golden color with a white head.
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jcr (3164) reviewed Endurance Glacier Gold from Ipswich Ale Brewery 18 years ago
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 3 | Overall - 9
Bottle. Looks good with a large, fizzy head atop a yellow, sparkling body. It’s downhill from there. Average to heavy nose that first comes off as sweet straw and fresh grass, but reveals a hint of cleaning fluid. The flavor is lightly sweet, lightly acidic and lightly bitter. Medium body and a creamy texture that grows chalky. Lively carbonation. The finish leaves a vegetable, canned corn flavor in the mouth.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Pours bright gold into a shaker. Off-white head quickly recedes to skim surface. Malt and grain aromas and flavors. Mild bitter finish. Lager characteristics for an ale.
Clarkvv (16760) reviewed Endurance Glacier Gold from Ipswich Ale Brewery 19 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
2006 bottle consumed on 6/14/06. Frothy white head, per usual from Mercury, is well-retained and laces sporadically. The bright goldenrod liquid is full of bottle conditioned bubbles. Very slight yeast sediment lies on the bottom. The nose begins with damp, grassy, almost funky hops. Very lean malt has notes of biscuits and slight breadiness, but is otherwise quite clean, minimally sweet and allows the hops room to maneuver. Very grassy, dusty but in a very large quantity, the English hops make me think EKGs, though I see it is Brewers Gold (similar) and Glacier (hybrid?). Some yeast nuttiness gets in the way and cuts all sharpness, while a fluffy, aerated graininess is not overly expressive. Tons of hop apparency, but it’s those dusty, funky, old-grassy hops that really confound the nose and do not complement the otherwise clean malt. Thankfully, the flavor is more citric and sharply grassy, with less of the damp soil and wet flowers, or what have you. The attenuation is perfect, being just sweet enough, with honey and very light drops of caramel and then quickly tapering off with bitter, crisp, leafy, green hop notes. Light lemon and orange, with a full complement of engaging, not-overdone carbonation. Dry and straw-like as Zach8270 says, leading to a very refreshing, medium to medium-light body with plenty of hop appeal. No alcohol, high in flavor with a good twang and bite on end.