Original Lager
Goldfinger Brewing Company in Downers Grove, Illinois, United States 🇺🇸
Lager - Helles Rotating|
Score
6.97
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Our flagship beer is the epitome of a lager. It is the beer you can enjoy everyday no matter the occasion. Whether you’re celebrating a victory of your favorite sports team, or throwing back a couple with friends or coworkers, this beer is unobtrusive. It is the cold, crisp, light, yet flavorful accompaniment to life. Just enough malt and noble hop flavor to subconsciously remind you how enjoyable it is after every sip, while not distracting you from making unforgettable memories. This is the style our Goldfinger ancestors would have brewed and certainly would have enjoyed.
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4.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 4
Overall 4
Basis pale lager. Tastes a little like corn. Pours clear golden with ok bubbles. Finishes clean but not crisp. Snally.
Tried
on 28 Oct 2025
at 22:20
6.5/10
Tasted at Snallygaster 2025.
Tried
on 12 Oct 2025
at 00:56
7.5/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 7
Overall 8
Tried
from Can
from
Horrocks Farm Market
on 19 Feb 2025
at 00:08
6.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
On tap at Blind Tiger, pours a clear pale blonde with a medium white head. Aroma brings out herbaceous notes, grassy hops, and straw. Flavour is crisp, with herbaceous notes, sweet biscuity malt, and straw. Herbaceous and biscuity finish. Decent.
Tried
from Draft
on 27 Dec 2024
at 08:53
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
On tap at Is/Was brewing. Clear golden with medium white head. Malty, bit grassy, tad bready, clean, easy drinkable.
Tried
from Draft
at
Is/was Brewing
on 02 Nov 2024
at 23:00
7/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 8
Can from Ryan: pours clear hold with white head. Aroma is super bready, little grassy. Lightly bitter. Clean and crisp.
Tried
from Can
on 03 Feb 2024
at 01:36
7.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 10
Overall 8.5
16oz can from the brewery. Less than a week from canning date. Bready, light, effervescent. Easy drinking, quite refreshing. Quite delicate on the palate, really clean and easy drinking, but also has some nice malt undertone. World Class Helles, pretzely melanoidan touches? Great stuff, really impressive execution.
Tried
from Can
on 22 Nov 2022
at 03:00
8/10
Can from Beer On the Wall in Arlington Heights. Pours a clear straw gold with a pillowy head of white foam that lingers. Lovely bready malt aromas with some light fruit-like notes as it warms. More of the same on the pallet. Super crushable with a faint earthy bitterness towards the end. Soft mouthfeel. Excellent.
Tried
from Can
on 22 Aug 2022
at 02:40
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Sampled from the tap at the brewery. Pours a clear gold with a white head that dissipates to the edges slowly. Aroma has a good amount of straw with some sweet grains and straw supporting. Flavor has slightly sweet grains and straw with a bit of hay in the finish.
Tried
from Draft
on 14 May 2022
at 22:20
8/10
Classic lager, just like it should taste. My first from them but between them and nearby Dovetail, these classic styles are in truly pro hands. Pic: 10-day-old robin.
Tried
from Can
on 21 Jun 2021
at 20:49