Gold Medal Ale
Speight's Brewery in Dunedin, Otago, New Zealand 🇳🇿
Pale Ale - Australian / New Zealand Regular|
Score
5.08
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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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6.3/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
It is a regular ale, an ordinary beer, nothing extraordinary, nice copper body, side of bitterness, watery, malt, nice to start a night, 06.09.16, at Prélaz, Lausanne.
Tried
from Bottle
from
Drinks of the World
on 14 Feb 2026
at 06:28
4.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 4.5
Flavor 4.5
Texture 5
Overall 4.5
Bottle at Moose Bar, Te Anau. Clear dark orange with white head. Malty and watery, quite bland with some caramel and vague herbal notes.
Tried
from Bottle
at
Black Dog
on 06 Apr 2025
at 22:00
5.9/10
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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
5.4/10
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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
5.1/10
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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
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
6/10
Tried
from Can
on 05 Oct 2024
at 22:14
5.2/10
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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
4.6/10
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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
6/10
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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
5.4/10
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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