Spitfire Golden Ale / Spitfire Gold (Bottle)
Shepherd Neame in Faversham, Kent, England 🏴
Golden / Blonde Ale Regular|
Score
6.14
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Spitfire Golden Ale was launched to mark the 75th anniversary of the Battle of Britain. A golden ale with vibrant fruity and flowery hop character balanced with sweet biscuit, caramel and toffee malts combining to deliver a soft bittersweet finish. Hops: Challenger, Centennial and Saaz.
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6.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Bottled@AIH66 Beer Session. (from Citymarket Rovaniemi). Amber colour, mediumsized foamy head, which leaves some lace. Aroma is floral, grassy, herbal and some slight "house aromas". Flavour is grassy, herbal, some bitterness and mild bitterness. Slightly more herbal than the normal Spitfire. A bit less bitter too.
Tried
from Bottle
on 13 Dec 2016
at 07:55
5.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
500ml bottle into pint glass. Pours a clear golden bronze with a sudsy white head. Quintessential English aroma of malt and hops. Lightly carbonated. Zingy in the mouth, medium bodied. Taste and finish are typically subtle for an English ale. There’s a light citric bitterness followed by a little smoky malt. The sort of beer you could sit in a beer garden and drink all afternoon. Nice summer quaffer.
Tried
from Bottle
on 10 Dec 2016
at 22:15
6.3/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 7
Bouteille 50cl, BB 10/2016. Orange claire, col blanc crémeux. Arôme au nez centré sur les malts et un Centennial un peu caché surtout pour un type super Cascade. Fleurie t herbacé avec petite touche de thé vert. Palais est finement malté, léger grains avec une pointe de biscuité. Sec et fleuri, houblonné noble malgré ’effort de Centennial, retrouve un côté plus Challenger, versant sur fin épicé, boisé de cèdre. Touche agrumes sur la fin. Correcte, et classique qui s’essaie aux houblons spéciaux.
Tried
on 29 Nov 2016
at 10:58
6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
(Bottle) Pours clear golden amber with no head. Aroma is veggies and grass. Light body and medium carbonation. Taste starts with some toffee malt balanced with some citrus tang. Some biscuity notes develop and then some reasonable bitterness appears. Quaffable but not exceptional.
Tried
from Bottle
on 29 Sep 2016
at 14:16
5.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 4.5
Clear 500ml bottle opened during half-time as England played Wales at football in the Euro’s on 16th June 2016. Not overly impressed actually. As the name suggests, this is a golden beer, it was clean and clear to look at, white head on pouring. Too sweet, even for my sweet tooth, the hops doing very little: much prefer the normal Spitfire to this.
Tried
from Bottle
on 16 Jun 2016
at 23:46
6.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
50cl bottle from Morrisons. Pale amber with a thick white head; typical Shep aroma; biscuity malt taste with some jammy fruit (perhaps over pasteurised); then a light bitterness with some tropical fruit before a dry biscuity finish. Not bad for a £1.
Tried
from Bottle
on 02 Dec 2015
at 13:36