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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4.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 4
Flavor 4
Texture 6
Overall 4.5
Bottle. A clear, golden beer with a minimal, off-white head. The aroma has fruityness and caramel, and it’s quite weak, but most of all it’s grainy. The flavor is more on the fruity side, with some sweetness and a hint of caramel. Medium body and a nice carbonation.There’s some sweetness in the finish, but it’s lacking on bitterness. Overall, it actually lacks on most things, especially bitterness, so it’s a rather boring beer. Quite quenching though. (090412)
Tried
from Bottle
on 24 Apr 2009
at 07:34
5.3/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 4
Overall 6
Bottle 330ml. @ [ Chris O’s pre NYE Tasting ].Clear medium amber color with a average, frothy, good lacing, mostly lasting, off-white head. Aroma is moderate malty, toasted, molasses, caramel, cabbage water. Flavor is moderate sweet and light light bitter with a average duration. Body is light medium, texture is watery, carbonation is soft. [20081230]
Tried
from Bottle
on 19 Mar 2009
at 16:36
5.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 4
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
Smallish creamy offwhite head. Amber body with light carbonation. Faint, vague artificial fruit aroma. Dry-sweetish fruity wooden taste with mealy notes. Light body. Kind of artificial. Aftertaste is much the same. Not bad, but one-dimensional and boring. (0.2l sampler, The Southerner, London.)
Tried
on 18 Jan 2009
at 05:45
4.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 3
Flavor 4
Texture 6
Overall 4
Half on tap at The Southerner, London. Crystal clear, amber-brown body. No head. Little aroma, fresh smell of hard water and sweetness. Flashes of caramel malts in flavour. Rather lively carbonated. More refreshing than pleasing in taste (01.05.2008).
Tried
from Draft
on 12 May 2008
at 08:38