Gold

Mac's Brewery in Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand 🇳🇿

Lager - Premium Regular

Score

4.82

ABV: 4.0%

IBU: 16

Ticks: 34

Mac’s Gold is the talisman of the Mac’s family, an all malt lager brewed naturally with hints of citrus and sweet malts. Mac’s Gold is the First, the Original, the Supreme naturally brewed all malt lager unbroken and therefore unfixed since 1983. It’s remained ahead of the curve, at the bleeding edge (or whatever other piece of metaphorical excess is fashionable this week) thanks to its delicate caramel sweetness and crisp, clean aftertaste. Connoisseurs will note that the mid-palate bitterness and hints of citrus have not been tinkered with.

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Joe19612 (603) ticked Gold from Mac's Brewery 8 months ago

Tried from Can on 27 May 2025 at 00:31

5.8

jerseyislandbeer (5899) reviewed Gold from Mac's Brewery 9 months ago

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5

Old rating from 2012 - 330ml bottle, pours light golden with a white foamy head. Aromas & tastes of biscuits, grass, grain, earth, corn & malt. Moderate body. Mild bitter finish

Tried from Bottle on 21 Apr 2025 at 09:55

Robin Svensson (13124) ticked Gold from Mac's Brewery 1 year ago

Tried from Bottle on 02 May 2024 at 16:28

5.2

Deanf (9781) reviewed Gold from Mac's Brewery 6 years ago

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5

Nice foam, boring yellow. Inoffensive sweetness on the nose. Flavour is boring lager sweetness. Full on the mouth. Boring, bland, highly average.

Tried on 17 Aug 2019 at 08:10

4.9

Grumbo (24387) reviewed Gold from Mac's Brewery 8 years ago

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 4.5

Bottle. UK import. Backlog rating from bottle collection and historic scoring. Source not recorded. No tasting notes kept, just rating.

Tried from Bottle on 02 Oct 2017 at 16:27

4.4

explosivedog (14050) reviewed Gold from Mac's Brewery 9 years ago

Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 4.5

330ml bottle(s). Biscuits, lemon, vinegar, peach. Malt dominated, and the sharpness is not too much. Not too bad.

Tried from Bottle on 23 Jan 2017 at 05:01

2.5

TedE (2767) reviewed Gold from Mac's Brewery 9 years ago

Appearance - 2 | Aroma - 2 | Flavor - 3 | Texture - 2 | Overall - 3

Jug at Adelphi, Kaikoura. Distant hop nose. Pale yellow beer with zero head. A few bubbles. Slight malt taste, vegetal finish. Like VB without the mad carbonation. Cheap rubbish.

Tried on 11 Sep 2016 at 02:33

3.8

beerhunter111 (50581) reviewed Gold from Mac's Brewery 11 years ago

Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 3 | Flavor - 3 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 5

Ins Glas ergießt sich ein goldgelbes Bier mit geringer Schaumkrone. Geruch leicht malzig, getreidig, leicht süß. Geschmack wässrig, leicht malzig getreidig, minimal herb.

Tried on 12 Mar 2014 at 11:30

5.6

minutemat (16258) reviewed Gold from Mac's Brewery 12 years ago

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5

Spotted this solitary little fellow on the shelf at Drinkers Paradise, Kentish Town and as I saw it’d had such a long journey from NZ I felt I had to try it. Got the impression this is one of those beers NZ beer snobs look down on but it’s actually not that bad. Quite a punchy taste and a notable caramel sweetness. Drinkable.

Tried on 16 Sep 2013 at 13:16

5.4

tderoeck (22711) reviewed Gold from Mac's Brewery 13 years ago

Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 5.5

Imported from my RateBeer account as Mac's Gold (by Mac's Brewery (Lion Co. - Kirin Holdings)):
Aroma: 6/10, Appearance: 2/5, Taste: 6/10, Palate: 2/5, Overall: 11/20, MyTotalScore: 2.7/5

20/VI/2012 - 33cl bottle @ home - BB: 26/VI/12 (2012-640) Thanks to Thomas and Annelies for the bottle!

Clear gold to light orange beer, nice off-white head, unstable, non adhesive. Aroma: lots of grains, malts, barnyard, hint of sweetness, some green herbs. MF: ok carbon, light to medium body. Taste: little sour in the start, lemony, some grains, nice refreshing bitterness. Aftertaste: little sweet, malty, nice bitter hoppy ending. Pretty decent lager!

Tried from Bottle on 20 Jun 2012 at 09:16