7.2

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7

Can from Meny. The low RB score on this made me skip trying this beer for a while, thinking golden ale is such a boring style anyway and I got a lot of more interesting beer to choose between these days. Then I just garbed it one day, just want to have a easy one for the thirst and there it was, a fresh batch in front of me at the grocery shop. It has a rather clear golden body with a nice foamy off-white head. Perhaps a bit dark for a golden ale, but still what I normally will call golden instead of pale golden if it was another kind of beer. Who said that golden had to be pale or yellow anyway? Aroma is nice and really fresh, citric fruit, grapefruit together with pale malt, bread and hint of caramel. Flavor has a nice balance between soft, pale malt, slightly smooth, light caramel, bread, fruity like aroma, slightly floral and nice bitterness. Medium and balanced in body and quite long lasting aftertaste with a pleasant bitterness. Thinking a bit about it, this is really spot on – it’s a golden ale with a fair amount of hops, both in fruitiness and bitterness. Forget about the session IPA style limitation, everyone knows what a golden ale is and this is a frigging golden ale with a nice hoppy twist but still a golden ale. Making something nice out of a boring beer style.

5.5

Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6

Amber, hazy with a medium white head. Aroma of hops, some caramel sens and hops. Light bitter with a mild hop end.

6

Bra. Fyldig, uten å være egentlig fyldig. interessant.

6.4

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

Orangebrun farge med høyt lyst beige skum. Lukter mye humle, svette. Tørr bitter i munnfølelse

6.5

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6

HaandBryggeriet Gnist ISA - Session IPA 646412
Lukt: Citrus, honning. Utseende: Gulbrun. Skum/kullsyre: Tynt dekkende skum, heng. Smak: Citrus, honning. Hvor: Helgø, Sola, Nydt@Hjemme. Medium: Boks@440ml, ABV@4,5%, Når@06.06.2020.

6.5

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

Dark golden with a white head - Fruity hop aroma - Malt body with a fruity hop flavour with some bitterness - This was nice

6

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6

Kobberfarget. Uklar. Lavt luftig skum som daler sakte og blir film. Lett aroma av sitrus & mango. Smaken det samme. Balansert. Syrlig bitter avslutning. Bra den!

7

Taster On tap at Haandfestival, Drammen. Cloudy Golden with white head. Malts, hops, sour, sweetness,

6.6

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

440 ml can, Cardinal Pub & Bar, Stavanger. ABV is 4.5%, IBU 10. Hops are Csacade, Citra and Mosaic. Cloudy reddish brown colour, surprisingly dark for something called a \"golden ale\". Moderate white head. Aroma of citrussy hops, also notes of spruce. Citric mouthfeel and flavour. Resinous hops in the finish, but the bitterness is moderate. .