Brewers Gold
Crouch Vale Brewery in South Woodham Ferrers, Essex, England 🏴
Golden / Blonde Ale Regular|
Score
6.86
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This multi-award-winning beer is pale, refreshing and extravagantly hoppy with gorgeous aromas of tropical fruits. Brewed with 100% extra-pale English barley malt and flavoured with heaps of choicest Brewers Gold hops, sourced with care from small-scale growers in the Hallertau.
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6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Bottle from Marks and Spencer (Alias version) [020713]
Golden, clear, frothy white head, some lacing
Aroma of spicy hops, soft peppery, some citrus, pale sweet malt
Taste of spicy hops, golden lager pale malts, some citrus notes, touch of honey
Palate - Medium carb and body, fairly oily. Finish as main flavour, bitter, spicy
Overall - 100/100 Golden Ale score on RB? No way - I don’t get it at all.
Golden, clear, frothy white head, some lacing
Aroma of spicy hops, soft peppery, some citrus, pale sweet malt
Taste of spicy hops, golden lager pale malts, some citrus notes, touch of honey
Palate - Medium carb and body, fairly oily. Finish as main flavour, bitter, spicy
Overall - 100/100 Golden Ale score on RB? No way - I don’t get it at all.
Tried
from Bottle
on 05 Jul 2013
at 09:59
7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Gravity at fullerians rugby club fest. Pale golden colour thin whispy white head. Nose is crisp earthy hops nutty malt chalk. Full bodied and a little slick. Nice crisp bitter citrus finish. Good balance and very drinkable.
Tried
on 02 Mar 2013
at 09:45
6.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 6.5
Bottle @ Home. Pours clear golden with a white head. Aroma of malt, rich fruity hops, peach, mango, grass, little citrus. Flavor is malt, caramel, little biscuet, grass, fruity hops, peach, litght citrus. Thin body, soft carbonation. Light bodied, refreshing and easy drinking beer, allthough close to BB date (May13) and hops seems abit faded. 020313
Tried
from Bottle
on 02 Mar 2013
at 06:41
8.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 9
(Cask @The Harp, London) Pours a lovely yellow gold with good head and lacing. Great hoppy/citrus almost honey taste and malt/bitter balance. Very refreshing and I can imagine at a moderate 4%abv a great summer session beer. Overall a beautiful golden ale, I can not think of one better I have had of its type. No surprise to me that it won the awards it did. Splendid.
Tried
from Cask
on 06 Oct 2012
at 11:31
7.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Imported from my RateBeer account as Crouch Vale Brewers Gold (by Crouch Vale Brewery):
Aroma: 8/10, Appearance: 4/5, Taste: 7/10, Palate: 4/5, Overall: 14/20, MyTotalScore: 3.7/5
24/VII/2012 - 50cl bottle from The Bottleshop (Canterbury) @ home - BB: XII/12 - (2012-750)
Clear blond beer, big irregular off-white head, unstable, bit adhesive. Aroma: citrus fruits, cheesy, stinky feet, ripe exotic fruits. MF: soft carbon, medium body. Taste: little bitter in the start, some citrus, bit malty, toast, little cheesy, nice bitterness. Aftertaste: cheese, bitter, grassy hops, some grains, stinky feet. It's English all right!
Aroma: 8/10, Appearance: 4/5, Taste: 7/10, Palate: 4/5, Overall: 14/20, MyTotalScore: 3.7/5
24/VII/2012 - 50cl bottle from The Bottleshop (Canterbury) @ home - BB: XII/12 - (2012-750)
Clear blond beer, big irregular off-white head, unstable, bit adhesive. Aroma: citrus fruits, cheesy, stinky feet, ripe exotic fruits. MF: soft carbon, medium body. Taste: little bitter in the start, some citrus, bit malty, toast, little cheesy, nice bitterness. Aftertaste: cheese, bitter, grassy hops, some grains, stinky feet. It's English all right!
Tried
from Bottle
on 24 Jul 2012
at 10:01
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Cask at CP&K. It pours light golden yellow, with a thin yellow-white head. The nose is floral, fresh-cut grass, fruitiness and straw. The taste is grass, floral, straw, resin, leather, citrus pith, soap and tinned fruit, with a dry, bitter finish. Medium body and soft carbonation. Good balance and flavour. A solid golden ale.
Tried
from Cask
on 28 Jun 2012
at 13:40
6.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 4
Overall 6.5
50 cl bottle @ Home. Rated on 12.11.2010
Aroma is sweetish and hoppy with exotic fruits and peaches. Flavour is hoppy with peaches, some honey and caramel. A bit too sweet and thin.
Aroma is sweetish and hoppy with exotic fruits and peaches. Flavour is hoppy with peaches, some honey and caramel. A bit too sweet and thin.
Tried
from Bottle
on 28 Jun 2012
at 12:22
6.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Bottle at home from Beers of Europe. Pours golden with a white head. Aroma of citrus, butter and light malt. Flavour is hoppy, light citrus, and malt, bitter. Really nice session ale.
Tried
from Bottle
on 09 Jun 2012
at 03:46
7.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 8
Cask at the Beacon Hotel, Sedgley. Pours gold with a small head. Aroma is bitter mango hop. Taste has piney hops to start and a mango and melon finish.
Tried
from Cask
on 12 May 2012
at 12:05
5.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 4
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6
Sept 2006 from BA: Drank at the Cock Hotel, Wellington, Shropshire (cask pint). Golden, honey blond with a small whisp of a white head, which stayed for a while then left the scene. Very floral in aroma, almost perfumed, not to my liking really. Nothing great about its taste considering it did so well again this year with CAMRA awards. All in all, a big disappointment for me, no real flavour to get hold of, I couldn’t detect the Grapefruit, Melon or Pineapple hints, which it is supposed to have. The pub I had it in, is well known for its beer quality, so I don’t think it was cellermanship that let the beer down. I shall try it again sometime, if only to see why it keeps winning awards.
Tried
from Cask
on 02 May 2012
at 06:54