Gunners Gold
Loose Cannon Brewery in Abingdon, Oxfordshire, England 🏴
Golden / Blonde Ale Regular|
Score
6.26
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A golden session beer available all year. Named in honor of local hero, Stan Bradford. This refreshing flavorsome beer offers hints of peach and passion fruit.
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6.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
500ml bottle from the brewery. Pours clear amber with a white head. Aromas & tastes of light fruits, hops & malt. Medium body. Light bitter finish.
Tried
from Bottle
on 25 Aug 2025
at 19:51
6.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 6
Bottle from Melbicks Garden Centre, Coleshill. Clear light amber with small consistent white top, decent lacing. Aroma of sweet malts. grain, touch of marmalade, floral to herbal note. Taste of toasted malt, light diacetyl butter note but light enough to add to flavour rather than detract, some citrus. My issue is the finish has light herbal and spice notes and light bitterness - lacks an oomph for want of a better word even for a gold. Good body and smoothness for the strength though. OK.
Tried
from Bottle
on 02 Jan 2025
at 03:04
03/05/2013. EIGHT BELLS, EATON, Oxfordshire, England
Tried
on 24 Dec 2022
at 16:42
6.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
On tap at the brewery, Abingdon on one of the open nights courtesy of Will, Tuesday 5th February 2019. We slept in Frank in the carpark. Pours more light amber than gold with a smattering of bubbles across the surface, good clarity. It's a fairly standard bitter, fruity, a little dry, quite MOR but drinkable and pleasant enough.
Tried
from Draft
on 06 Feb 2019
at 06:25
5.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 4
Texture 6
Overall 4
Bottle at home from Laithwaite. Another golden ale and probably the worst that I have had from this brewery. There was quite a strong flavour of corn to the beer and this was finished quickly. Their other beers were brilliant, but this wasn't.
Tried
from Bottle
on 18 Dec 2017
at 02:57
5.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 5
10th August 2017
GBBF Day 3. Cask. Clear gold beer, small white head. Palate is light and dry and has very modest carbonation. Dry malts, not that sweet and a touch grainy. Mild dry floralness. Modest orange and orange peel. Dry finish brings mild bitterness. Grainy and dull but not horrible.
GBBF Day 3. Cask. Clear gold beer, small white head. Palate is light and dry and has very modest carbonation. Dry malts, not that sweet and a touch grainy. Mild dry floralness. Modest orange and orange peel. Dry finish brings mild bitterness. Grainy and dull but not horrible.
Tried
from Cask
on 16 Oct 2017
at 05:05
6.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 8
Sampled @ GBBF 2017, Day 3. A clear orange golden beer with a small off-white head. Aroma of reddish malt, biscuit. Taste of toasted malt, red malt, some spruce. Mild bitterness.
Tried
on 10 Aug 2017
at 15:36
5.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
Cask handpull at GBBF 2017. Golden amber colour lasting cream head. Diacetyl and toast. Malty. Not much hop. Juicy .hmmm.
Tried
from Cask
on 10 Aug 2017
at 07:38
6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Cask (gravity) @ Nottingham Robin Hood Beer Festival (2014), Nottingham Castle, Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, England NG1 6EL. [ As Loose Cannon Gunners Gold ].Clear medium orange color with a small to average, open and frothy - fizzy, good lacing, mostly lasting to diminishing, off-white to white head. Aroma is moderate malty, pale malt, caramel, light butter - butterscotch. Flavor is moderate sweet and bitter with a average to long duration, fruity, citrus, pale malt, butterscotch notes. Body is medium, texture is oily to watery, carbonation is soft to flat. [20141010]
Tried
from Cask
on 12 Jan 2016
at 16:38
6.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 7
Cask at the Bell, Waltham St Lawrence, 03/10/15. Golden amber with a decent off white cap. Nose is malty, light floral essence, tangerine, soft bread. Taste comprises biscuit malt, bitter orange, straw, caramel. Medium bodied, soft carbonation, semi drying close. Solid golden bitter.
Tried
from Cask
on 03 Oct 2015
at 09:13