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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7.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 8
Bottled@The Chriso rock the roof down pre-GBBF tasting. Yellowish golden colour with small white head. Aroma is fruits, wood, yeast and some mild toffee. Flavour is caramel, toffee, some alcohol, mild wooden and fruity notes. A quite true to the style Belgian Blonde Strong Ale.
Tried
from Bottle
on 11 Aug 2010
at 02:26
7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Pours deep gold into a tulip. Off-white head with excellent retention recedes to skim surface. Honey, yeast and fruit aromas. Sweet honey upfront turning slightly grassy in the lasting, somewhat hot finish.
Tried
on 24 Jul 2010
at 15:01
6.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Bottle. Pours a hazy yellow color with a small white head. Has a sweetish malty spicy aroma. Sweetish malty spicy yeasty flavor. Has a sweetish malty spicy yeasty finish.
Tried
from Bottle
on 21 Jul 2010
at 22:10
7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Courtesy of jcwattsrugger. It pours deep crystal clear gold with thin white head. The aroma is spicy, tart apricots, pears, apples and yeasty spices. The taste is similar with yeasty spice, varied fruitiness like apricots, apples and pear. It has a lingering spiciness heading deep into the after taste.
Tried
on 14 Jul 2010
at 17:56
6.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 6.5
Bottle, 12oz. An almost clear one, golden in color, and without head. Sweetish, fruity nose that didn’t give me much. Alcohol, sugary malts and a good dash of fruityness in the flavor, a herbal bitterness finishes it. Dry and full-bodied. A nice beer, nothing more, lacks on complexity and it’s too sugary sweet. 100212
Tried
from Bottle
on 04 Jul 2010
at 05:54
7.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 6.5
Bottle. golden- orange colour with an off-white head. Aroma is fruit, caramel, hop. Flavour is sweet, hop, fruit, malt, caramel. nice beer.
Tried
from Bottle
on 25 Jun 2010
at 21:54
7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Location: A 22 oz bottle from Whole Foods - Bowery
Aroma: The nose has some sweet citrus hops, spice, and yeast
Appearance: It pours a slightly hazy golden color with a huge, lasting, fluffy white head
Flavor: The taste is similar, spicy yeast, citrus sweetness, some grassy characteristic, and other fruity notes
Palate: The mouthfeel is somewhat sticky, decent amount of carbonation, though still pretty smooth, and with a fairly light body
Overall Impression: My overall impression of this beer is pretty positive, I like the way it drinks and thought it had a nice flavor to it, seems to be pretty well-made stuff as well. Another nice one from Goose Island.
Aroma: The nose has some sweet citrus hops, spice, and yeast
Appearance: It pours a slightly hazy golden color with a huge, lasting, fluffy white head
Flavor: The taste is similar, spicy yeast, citrus sweetness, some grassy characteristic, and other fruity notes
Palate: The mouthfeel is somewhat sticky, decent amount of carbonation, though still pretty smooth, and with a fairly light body
Overall Impression: My overall impression of this beer is pretty positive, I like the way it drinks and thought it had a nice flavor to it, seems to be pretty well-made stuff as well. Another nice one from Goose Island.
Tried
from Bottle
on 17 Jun 2010
at 19:05
7.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Tap @ Boston/NY 2009. Hazy golden color, medium head. Very spicy aroma, coriander? Tripel-like. Slight bitter. Heavy on the stomach.
Tried
from Draft
on 27 May 2010
at 01:50
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Bottle. Slightly dim, orange body with a thin off-white head. Aroma is fruity with some caramel and hops. Flavor is sweet, malty and some degree of bitterness. Totally drinkable and I definitiv had worse, but I’m not quite sure of what direction this was meant to be.
Tried
from Bottle
on 16 Mar 2010
at 08:58
7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Bomber as plain Demolition. Probably from Archer Liquors. Pours hazy gold with a foamy off-white, ringy/clingy, head. Aromas of citrus and mild spice. Medium body with mild carbonation. Flavor is citrus, pale malt, some sweetness, and touches of yeast/spice. Very tasty.
Tried
on 01 Feb 2010
at 15:46