Gold (Bottle)
(Batch of Gold)
Butcombe Brewery (Liberation Group) in Wrington, Somerset, England 🏴
Golden / Blonde Ale Regular|
Score
6.49
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Go gold or go home. Made from dazzling Maris Otter malt, our exceptional golden ale won’t disappoint. Part bitter, part sweet, 100% refreshing. Fearlessly brewed, this is a well-balanced, full-bodied golden beer with a subtle floral and herby aroma. A true Bristol sunset in a bottle, worth its weight in gold.
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7.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 8
500ml bottle from Sainsburys, Bracknell. Amber with a loose white head; fruity aroma with apricot; earthy bitter taste with more apricot fruitiness and some citrus; and a salty earthy finish. Very drinkable.
Tried
from Bottle
on 13 Sep 2008
at 15:16
6.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
(Bottle, Monk’s Café, Stockholm) Golden colour with firm, white head. Fruity nose with apricots, orange peel and fresh hints of Fuggles hops. Fruity taste with apricots and floral, slightly earthy hops in the finish. Some grainy malt underneath. Turns dry towards the finish. Rather light body. Tasty and refreshing.
Tried
from Bottle
on 24 Jun 2008
at 15:53
6.3/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6
Bottled at Monk’s Café, Stockholm. Clear golden, dense small head. Hoppy fruity nose with a touch of melon. Sweet with clean rounded mouthfeel, some butter and grain. Notes of pears and salt. Finishes with medium bitterness.
Tried
from Bottle
on 24 Jun 2008
at 15:40
6.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Bottle from Tesco. A fairly standard bottled bitter. A pleasant gold colour with a decent white head that left plenty of lacing. Aroma of grassy hops with some caramel. The flavour had some doughy malt and citrus hops before a bitter finish. Good.
Tried
from Bottle
on 14 Oct 2007
at 05:42
6.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 7
(50 cl bottle at Stockholm Beer Festival, 2007) Clear golden color, white fluffy head. Bitter, grassy, floral, herbal hoppy scent. Smooth herbal hoppy taste. Thin mouthfeel, medium bitterness.
Tried
from Bottle
on 24 Sep 2007
at 10:02
5.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Bottle. golden / orange colour with an off-white head. Aroma is fruit, malt, caramel, butterscotch. Flavour is fruit, malt, caramel, butterscotch, hop. OK beer.
Tried
from Bottle
on 27 Jul 2007
at 02:55
6.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Bottle. Golden body, with an off-white head. Citrusy and fruity initial aroma, with some malt, caramel and breadcrusts coming after a while. There is a good dash of grapefruit. The flavor is fruity and malty, with a nice touch of caramel and breadcrusts. Medium body. Dry, fruity and bitter finish with pinecones and grapefruit. Quite good, English bitter. After finishing it, I found out it was 11 (!) months past BB-date, but that sure hadn’t harmed it. (070711)
Tried
from Bottle
on 11 Jul 2007
at 10:32
6.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 5
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Bottle from Sainsbury’s, Banbury 27-04-06. Dark Golden in colour, smooth and malty with good hoppy flavours present, a very enjoable tipple. Apparently brewed to commerorate the 25th Anniversary of both the Butcombe Brewery and the Bristol Balloon Festival, strange that they then call it gold, you’d have thought they could have brewed something with silver connections?
Tried
from Bottle
on 28 Apr 2006
at 01:33
6.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Bottle (from Bierzwerg): Deep golden, clear, stable fluff - almost off-white - head; pale malt, lemony hops and a subtle fruitiness in the nose; light to moderate bitter-sweet flavour, light to medium bodied, soft; slightly lingering fruity and sweetish-malty finish with a nice balancing bitterness in the aftertaste. Nice archetypal english stuff.......
Tried
from Bottle
on 27 Aug 2005
at 03:18