Demolition Ale
Goose Island Beer Company in Chicago, Illinois, United States 🇺🇸
Belgian Style - Blonde / Pale / Amber Rotating Out of Production|
Score
6.93
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Brewed to honor the brave souls who kept our brewpub open in the early 90’s while wrecking balls tore down the mall around us. Dry and smooth, with a grassy, citrus aroma and honey malt middle.
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6.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Bottle. Light citric aroma. Cloudy yellow, white head. Cumquat, light apricot. Mellow chewy body, pineapple aftertaste.
Tried
from Bottle
on 11 Nov 2010
at 14:58
7.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 8.5
Bottle. Golden beer with a whitish head. Yeast and estery aroma with malt and light eart. Malt and spice flavor with yeast and light fruit. Medium bodied. Malt and spice linger with yeast, light fruit, and light earth.
Tried
from Bottle
on 10 Nov 2010
at 14:37
7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Bottle at Atlas Bistro, courtesy of Josh, thank you sir! Golden color (logical, I guess). Aroma of grandma’s perfume. Decent maltiness with hints of flowers and light spice.
Tried
from Bottle
on 07 Nov 2010
at 12:20
6.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
@Tampa Wkly Gathering @TampaPourhouse 22oz bottle-pours a white head with gold color. Aroma is light malt-bready, spice. Taste is light malt-bready, 2nd spice hops, yeast.
Tried
from Bottle
on 07 Nov 2010
at 07:17
7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Goose Island DEMOlition (bottled on 9/21/10) 22oz. Pours with a hazed light golden body with a huge white head. Aromas of banana esters and clove from afar. On closer inspection, notes of clove, white pepper, straw and grass, light hay, and dust. Smells like a very hoppy saison with similar house yeast to the Bruery’s (specifically thinking of Seven Grain Saison). Taste is dry, straw, bitter, grassy, estery, lightly herbal, very hoppy (pretty fresh), banana. Some ginger notes (pickled ginger) Light pepper notes with a dry finish. Pretty tasty brew. Lively bubbles. Peppery and dry.
Tried
from Bottle
on 31 Oct 2010
at 20:15
7.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7
Bottle from Corks of Cotham, Bristol. Hazy golden pour with a smallish white head. Fragrant, fruity, slightly sickly nose. Sweet flavour with some belgian yeast charcteristics and notes of honey and citrus. Dried out a little towards the finish which stretched out quite well. Started out a little unimpressed on this but it opened up gradually to win some drinkability points.
Tried
from Bottle
on 26 Oct 2010
at 06:49
6.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Purchased from Beers of Europe, Setchley, Nr KIngs Lynn, Norfolk, 24.09.10 consumed 16.10.10 Pours mid gold with a white head. There is vanilla and barley twist all over this, quite sweet at times also fairly floral. Some soapy hops showing, that’s bout’ it really fine enough but no world-beater. A6 A3 T7 P3 Ov14 3.3
Tried
on 19 Oct 2010
at 12:45
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
dorée léger, blanche. arôme, levure type belge avec des notes d’herbes, houblon donne qcq notes citron, pamplemousse, abricot et léger orange., goût, levure belge, fruité, palais/grains, amertume moyenne mais plus fruitée et citron, finit reste acidulé et qcq épices.
Tried
on 26 Sep 2010
at 09:32
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Bottle at ChrisO "I’m Trying to see the Stool" pre GBBF2010 tasting. Gold haze. Thin white head. Very much a Belgian beer, decent Belgian blond. Soft in mouth
Tried
from Bottle
on 22 Aug 2010
at 03:27
7/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 8
Bottle 22fl.oz. @ ChrisOs Pre-GBBF Shindig 2010.[ Raise The Roof Tasting ]. [ As Goose Island Demolition Ale ].Clear medium yellow color with a average, frothy, good lacing, mostly diminishing, off-white to white head. Aroma is moderate malty, toasted - caramel, moderate hoppy, moderate to light heavy yeasty, belgium yeast, light coriander. Flavor is moderate to heavy sweet and bitter with a average to long duration, belgium yeasty. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft. [20100731]
Tried
from Bottle
on 18 Aug 2010
at 13:36