Gold Medal Ale
Speight's Brewery in Dunedin, Otago, New Zealand 🇳🇿
Pale Ale - Australian / New Zealand Regular|
Score
5.12
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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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4.5/10
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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
3.4/10
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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
5.6/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 4
Overall 6.5
Bottle from somewhere in NZ - thanks to Jan for bringing it! Pours clear amber with a thinning, frothy, white head. Restrained aroma of bread, cake, apple, caramel, cinnamon & grass. Taste is medium bready sweet, some caramel & raisin, and light grassy bitter, a bit herbal. Dryish, grassy hoppy finish, quite bitter, lingering fruit, caramel & yeast. Light, almost medium body, slick texture, fizzy carbonation. Not very impressive but its quenching & Amber Lager-like quality make it likeable.
Tried
from Bottle
on 30 Sep 2018
at 12:01
Tried
from Bottle
on 26 May 2018
at 07:14
5/10
(#653)(#9 NZ)(#4 Otago)
Bought it at "FreshChoice", Te Anau, NZ
Bought it at "FreshChoice", Te Anau, NZ
Tried
from Bottle
on 04 Mar 2018
at 18:52
5.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 4
Bottle in Auckland. Backlog rating from bottle collection and historic scoring. No tasting notes kept, just rating.
Tried
from Bottle
on 02 Oct 2017
at 16:33
3/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 3
Flavor 2
Texture 4
Overall 2
Bottle at home from indepdent shop in Dublin. Was quite sad to try this and find it tasted pretty awful. I would never describe it as an ale, was more like a brown lager or something strange....had fond memories of drinking this in New Zealand so worth another shot down under.
Tried
from Bottle
on 10 Feb 2017
at 02:35
6.3/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 7
F: huge, creamy, off-white. C: coppery, clear. A: malt, caramel, grassy, bread, floral. T: malt, caramel, grassy, toast, candy, very light bitterness, good balanced and not bad at all, medium body, medium carbonation, 440ml can from local supermarket in Nadi in Fiji.
Tried
from Can
on 01 Feb 2017
at 04:00
6.5/10
Tried
on 09 Dec 2016
at 01:08
3.9/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 5
Flavor 3
Texture 6
Overall 2.5
On tap. Aroma is floral, biscuit, malt vinegar. Flavour is quite sweaty, perhaps some caramel and biscuit trying to fight through, but mostly a sweaty start and a malt vinegar finish. Bad.
Tried
from Draft
on 18 Nov 2016
at 01:12