Speight's Brewery Gold Medal Ale

Gold Medal Ale

 

Speight's Brewery in Dunedin, Otago, New Zealand 🇳🇿

  Pale Ale - Australian / New Zealand Regular
Score
5.05
ABV: 4.0% IBU: - Ticks: 44
Speight’s is the beer of choice after a hard day’s work. Probably the least sweet of all New Zealand beers, this characteristic allows the full flavour of the malt and hops to shine through. Speight’s Gold Medal Ale is a great accompaniment to any meat dish and is superb with Southern game dishes such as venison, duck and rabbit.
 

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5.9
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5

330ml bottle from Beers of Europe. Pours a clear dark amber/brown with small off-white head, decent retention and lacing. Aroma is malts with toffee and dough. Taste is sweet malts, toffee, grass, pleasant but a bit thin. Light to medium bodied. I quite enjoyed it.

Tried from Bottle on 31 Dec 2024 at 02:24


5.4
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5

Tap at Speights Brewpub, Hamilton, NZ. Pours clear mid to dark gold with off white foam. Not much aroma, it was served at about 3 degrees centigrade. Maybe some malt character in there somewhere. On the taste, again the serving temperature wasn’t helpful. Malt, biscuit, hoppy hints. Medium body with soft carbonation.

Tried from Draft on 18 Dec 2024 at 05:17


5.1
Appearance - 5 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 4.5 | Texture - 5 | Overall - 6

Can 2024-10-06 Göteborg, new region Otagao NZ
AR: dry, semisweet, thin
AP: iron bru colored body clear, wee thin off-white lid
F: dry, semisweet, thin

Tried on 06 Oct 2024 at 19:58


6

Tried from Can on 05 Oct 2024 at 22:14


5.2
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 5

Haven't had this in forever. Bottle. Amber with a good cm of off white head. Light grainy aroma with a little caramel and weeds. Very thin. Dryish with very light bread, a touch of caramel and low bitterness. Vapid but competent.

Tried from Bottle on 24 May 2023 at 13:20


4.6
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 5.5

330ml bottle from Beers of Europe. Pours clear amber with a thin beige head. Aroma is malt and toffee. Taste is light sweet, malt and toffee. Light bitter finish. Very light bodied. A new NZ region tick, nothing more.

Tried from Bottle on 07 Aug 2021 at 05:47


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

330ml bottle from Beers of Europe: BB 18th Jan 2022. Drank at home on 1st Aug 2021. Off-white head on an amber body, clean and clear looking. Malty nose and taste, caramel to the fore, so pretty sweet. This was the best of my three beers from Oceania in my little tasting (the other two being Toohey's Extra Dry and Carlton Cold).

Tried from Bottle on 01 Aug 2021 at 09:09


5.4
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 5.5

330ml bottle – Pours a dark toffee amber colour with a small frothy off-white head. Aroma is malty, some caramel and grassy hop notes. A moderately sweet taste, lager malt, caramel and grassy but not much bitterness.

Tried from Bottle on 26 Jul 2020 at 17:42


4.5
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 4

Light amber color. Orange, slightly dusty aroma. Orange flavor with a hint of caramel abd just a bit of licorice. Fruity and watery, hardly any hopbitterness. Grainy sweetish.

Tried on 26 Aug 2019 at 12:07


3.4
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 2 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 3.5

Bad foam and darker gold, stinks of corrugated cardboard and rotting cabbage and a hint of caramel. Inoffensive flavour, wet rye bread soaked in sugar. Kind of watery. Poor and ugly for a beer, low rent might be the best thing you can say about it.

Tried from Can on 17 Aug 2019 at 08:36