Gold Label
Samlesbury in Preston, Lancashire, England 🏴
Barley Wine - Barley Regular|
Score
5.58
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Gold Label beer was introduced by Sheffield-based brewery Tennant's in 1951, the first beer branded as a barley wine to be lighter in colour, where until that point all barley wined had traditionally been very dark.
By the 1970s Gold Label had become the best-selling barley wine in the UK, expanding production to incorporate further breweries. Though the beer style has declined in popularity, Gold Label continues to be produced at Samlesbury Brewery in Lancashire today.
By the 1970s Gold Label had become the best-selling barley wine in the UK, expanding production to incorporate further breweries. Though the beer style has declined in popularity, Gold Label continues to be produced at Samlesbury Brewery in Lancashire today.
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6.3/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 5
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6
33cl can. Nice enough beer. Amber beer. Decent head. Drinkable but not the best barley wine
Tried
from Can
on 12 Oct 2010
at 15:07
4.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 5
Flavor 4
Texture 4
Overall 4.5
2 x 180ml bottles. Pours dark amber with a small frothy head. Aroma is sweet caramel and some raisin. Not much to taste, sweet start then alcohol heat on the finish. This is a lot better if you have a pint of Banks’s, then chuck it in when you’re halfway through.
Tried
from Bottle
on 25 Sep 2010
at 11:26
4.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 4
Overall 4
Can 33 cl. Pours a clear dark amber with a small and creamy off-white head. Aroma is brewing syrup and alcohol. Medium body, brewing cereals and a little caramel with a massive alcohol burn. Basically just a crude Malt Liquor. 020210
Tried
from Can
on 02 Feb 2010
at 10:56
5.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 5
33 cL can, courtesy of Papsoe. Pours clear and golden orange with a small white head. Aroma is metallic and alcohol. Sweet malty and slight metallic flavoured. Alcohol flavoured finish and dark cornish/malty.
Tried
from Can
on 02 Feb 2010
at 10:48
3.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 3
Flavor 3
Texture 6
Overall 2
Can 33cl.Clear medium yellow orange color with a average to large, frothy, good lacing, mostly lasting, off-white head. Aroma is moderate malty, sweet malt, alcohol. Flavor is moderate to light heavy sweet with a average to long duration. Body is medium, texture is oily to watery, carbonation is soft. [20090731]
Tried
from Can
on 07 Oct 2009
at 01:40
2.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 2
Flavor 2
Texture 4
Overall 2
Golden with a small white head. Sweet aroma with alcohol, maize and apple peel. Sweet caramel flavour with alcohol
Tried
on 16 Aug 2009
at 18:03
4.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 4
Flavor 4
Texture 6
Overall 4
Canned. Amber colour, not much head. Aroma is alcohol, grains, malts and some horror. Falvou is fruity, sweet malts, some grains and very caramelly strange.
Tried
from Can
on 31 Jul 2009
at 19:38
5.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 4
Overall 5.5
Can. Medium head with medium duration. Color is amber. Aroma and taste are sweet fruits, caramel and alcohol. Not the best of barleywines.
Tried
from Can
on 22 Jul 2009
at 12:51
4.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 4
Flavor 4
Texture 4
Overall 4.5
Canned(330ml). -Dark orange/amber coloured, small pale beige head, alcoholic nose. Extremely fizzy. Sweet malty and strong alcoholic with bitter finish. 8.5%ABV.
Tried
from Can
on 19 Dec 2007
at 04:26
4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 3
Flavor 4
Texture 4
Overall 4
Can, shared with and courtesy of ozujsko who brought it from London (thanks!) So my first Barley Wine is a canned InBev product....ooookaaay.... Poured a nice darker orange colour with a medium sized off white head that went away at a medium head. As fizzy as Coke. What the... And the taste is... Oh, dear. A malt liquor. Which the almost completely alcohol-driven nose confirms (it’s a bit malty as well). A good malt liquor but a malt liquor nonetheless. Malt, somewhat peachy, heavy alcohol, notes of lemon... barley wine... right. Quite a strong bitterness near the end... hopefully from hops, and it’s almost unpleasant. If not for the aftertaste, this’d be my malt liquor of choice... if I had to choose between malt liquors that is.
Tried
from Can
on 10 Dec 2007
at 13:30