Silver Champion Golden Ale, Champion Beer of Britain Competition
Explorer is light and refreshing, suffused with the aromas of a grapefruit grove. The citrus attack will burst on your palate as the hops deliver their fruity bitterness.
Available in 500ml bottle and in keg in selected Wetherpoon outlets.
Pale Ale malt is used to provide the biscuity backbone of this blonde beer but it’s the hops that give it its personality. We use two American hops, grown in the Yakima Valley in Washington. These hops, called Columbus and Chinook, add wonderful grapefruit flavours to the beer.
Explorer is light and refreshing, suffused with the aromas of a grapefruit grove. The citrus attack will burst on your palate as the hops deliver their fruity bitterness.
Available in 500ml bottle and in keg in selected Wetherpoon outlets.
Pale Ale malt is used to provide the biscuity backbone of this blonde beer but it’s the hops that give it its personality. We use two American hops, grown in the Yakima Valley in Washington. These hops, called Columbus and Chinook, add wonderful grapefruit flavours to the beer.
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5.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
500ml bottle @ RBNAG’07. Orange body with a dense white head. Moderate aroma of malt and hops. Flavor is mild, caramel malt, sweet and balanced bitter. Medium body. Decent, classic bitter.
Tried
from Bottle
on 07 Dec 2007
at 05:36
6.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Kennilworth edinburgh ... golden orange ... light hop ... orangy with touch of that gold hop quite a lot of hop resins.
Tried
on 15 Aug 2007
at 14:27
5.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 5
Texture 4
Overall 5.5
Bottle. Clear amber with a slight white head. This was dull - Aroma of floral hops with some apricots. Watery in the mouth with some subdued hop flavours and a short finish.
Tried
from Bottle
on 22 Jul 2007
at 11:24
6.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 6.5
Cask at the Cask at The George Hotel, Cley-Next-The-Sea, Norfolk, 27-04-07. Pours golden in colour very zesty, citrusy and fruity nose. Taste was much more of the same, very fruity and crisp with real citrusy bite and nice bitterness.
Tried
from Cask
on 30 Apr 2007
at 01:44
6.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 4
Overall 7
Bottle from Asda. poured a clear dolden colour with a little white head and light carbonation; light hoppy aroma; explodes in the mouth with a rich grapefruit flavour. Excellent bitterness to start, if this beer lacks anything it’s follow through - the aftertaste is disappointingly light.
Tried
from Bottle
on 10 Jan 2007
at 14:11
7.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 6.5
500 ml brown bottle, courtesy of Cardinal pub, Stavanger. ABV is 5.5%. Brewed with American Chinook and Columbus hops. Golden colour, large foamy head. Pleasant hoppy aroma and flavour, both with notes of citrus and dry white wine. Bitter finish. Okay beer, but I’d like the malts to come through too.
Tried
from Bottle
on 19 Nov 2006
at 15:19
4.8/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 4
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 5
Half pint on cask at The Greyhound in Ipswich. Orange in colour, a bit unclear. Small ring layer of foam. Moderate fruity esters in aroma and bitter fruity in flavour. Medium mouthfeel. Hard to discern anything beyond the ordinary (22.09.2006).
Tried
from Cask
on 15 Oct 2006
at 03:15
3.9/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 4
Flavor 4
Texture 4
Overall 3.5
Bottled. Golden colour, small white head. Aroma is hoppy, flowery and quite sweetish. Flavour is grassy malts with hoppy hints. Watery.
Tried
from Bottle
on 03 Oct 2006
at 11:00
3.6/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 3
Flavor 4
Texture 4
Overall 3.5
[Bottled at Stockholm Beer Festival] Clear pale amber. Sulphury vegetable nose. Medium sweet with clean mouthfeel and notes of herbs and nutmeg. No bitterness. Not good.
Tried
from Bottle
on 01 Oct 2006
at 09:10
6.2/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 7
Cask (Westend, Stratford u.A.): A bit hazy, darjk golden to light amber coloured, almost no head; fruity (honey) and herbal to medical hoppy nose; soft, distinctive bitter flavour; fruity and hoppy finish. Very pleasant ale !
Tried
from Cask
on 29 Jul 2006
at 01:56