Barley Gold
Banks's in Wolverhampton, West Midlands, England 🏴
Barley Wine - Barley Regular|
Score
6.00
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Ferris (26037) reviewed Barley Gold from Banks's 9 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 4.5
Can - Sweet corn notes. Clear gold with a decent white head. Corn, bitter grain and a bit of booze. Not good.
LeninCat (7985) reviewed Barley Gold from Banks's 9 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 3 | Flavor - 2 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 1.5
Can @ RBWG Fart Dungeon. Thanks Colin. Aroma is corn, cardboard, and sweet grains. Medium body. Pretty serious bitter bite. Corn and wet paper. Thanks Colin.
VsXsV (3856) reviewed Barley Gold from Banks's 9 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 3 | Flavor - 3 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 5
Can. Clear golden liquid with small to medium white head. Aroma of bread, grain, light corn, sugar and sweet alcohol. Taste is light to medium sweet and light bitter with notes of bread, table sugar and corn. Medium bodied with medium carbonation. Bad.
Olut (21691) reviewed Barley Gold from Banks's 11 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Can from Co-operative, Littleborough. Clear copper with a small head. It’s very sweet on the nose with berries evident, although a touch less sweet in taste. Has a fair strength.
danlo (12875) reviewed Barley Gold from Banks's 12 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
330ml can 7.4%. Bronze golden amber colour, foam white head and aroma of caramel, toffee. Taste is sweetish malty, light caramel with toffee and a boozy metallic bitterness. Medium bodied, soft carbonation, warming finish. Quite drinkable.
BlackHaddock (17179) reviewed Barley Gold from Banks's 12 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 3 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 3.5
Now at 7.4% ABV: 330ml can, best before 31 Dec 2013. Poured vigorously into a Duvel glass on 17 Aug 2013, the 6th beer in a ’random tasting evening’ with myself (wife out and I’ve got no friends). Lovely deep golden/light amber body, clear, bright and clean: huge white foaming head on top, which sadly fell away a bit too quickly. The nose is weak: some sweet notes (sugar and caramel), but otherwise nothing but hints of alcohol and the can it came out of. Taste: Semi-sweet malts with a hop undertone that rises up towards the end of each sip giving a pleasant bitterness to an otherwise unbalanced drink. There is however an unwanted metallic aftertaste that ruins everything. The whole metallic feel has balls up this tasting. I really wanted this to be a good beer for me: sadly that isn’t the case, maybe others will find it more wholesome to their taste buds, but I doubt it.
berkshirejohn (10200) reviewed Barley Gold from Banks's 12 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5
33cl can picked up in Alsager. Much better than expected! Golden amber with a billowing white head; rather unattractive aroma; but in the mouth there’s a thick syruopy texture with some fruity malts and a reasonable bitterness; then some fruity malts giving a finish that isn’t too cloying, and doesn’t have any rough alcohol, but is long and warming. I can’t say that I’d rush out to buy another one, but I certainly wouldn’t turn it down if offered.
Theydon_Bois (45766) reviewed Barley Gold from Banks's 13 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Bottle at JF’s - 12/10/12. Clear dark amber with a thin white head. Dark caramel malt on the nose, light vegetal tones, barley, dark fruit and carmelised sugars. Tastes of caramelised sugars, candy, toffee, boozey. Fullish bodied, soft carbonation with a boozey finish. Expected more, not complex or well balanced enough. Barley wine on the cheap by a big brewer. Drinkable, but just not enough care taken in producing a 9% beer. Wouldn’t revisit.
Davros (5246) reviewed Barley Gold from Banks's 13 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 3.5
Pours dark amber with a large, lasting head.Nose is restrained but shows banana, soft caramel, bready malt, spicy hops and cardboard. Not exactly enticing.Flavours aren’t that much better really. Grainy malt, cardboard notes, faint caramel and hot alcohol. Pretty dirty.Body seems light on.Too much of a reliance on cane sugar perhaps? Definitely not enough malt.