Worth The Wait
Beeston Brewery in Beeston, Norfolk, England 🏴
Golden / Blonde Ale Regular|
Score
6.16
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A taste packed golden beer, with a balance of hops to give a gentle bitterness & a refreshing citrus hint. Winner of Champion Beer at the 2007 Norwich Beer Festival! Also “Best selling beer of the festival” at the East Anglian beer festival in Bury St Edmunds.
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6.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6.5
Flavor 6.5
Texture 6
Overall 7
500ml bottle from The Norfolk Bottle Shop, Branthill, Wells next the Sea. Pours clear golden with a white head. Aromas & tastes of flora, light fruits, hops & malt. Moderate body. Slightly sweet light bitter finish.
Tried
from Bottle
on 15 Apr 2026
at 14:31
7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 7
Overall 8
Cask. White Horse Brancaster. Clear medium gold. Slim lacing white head. Nose has brioche loaf malts. Touch of peppery hop. Taste has a soft bready sweetness with decent levels of hop leaf bitterness. Easy drinking affair with light bitterness to finish.
Tried
from Cask
at
The White Horse
on 02 Feb 2025
at 18:14
6.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Sample courtesy of Grumbo, cheers GB. Aroma is herbal, grassy, malty with hints of citrus and stone fruits. Honey and caramel coming through on the taste. Still quite lively mouthfeel. Easy to drink and quite enjoyable.
Tried
on 12 Jan 2025
at 11:06
3.7/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 5.5
Texture 6
Overall 6
Gravity cask at the CAMRA Cambridge Beer Festival 2023. Pours clear gold with a white cap. Pale malt, fruity, light grassy. Taste: light to moderate sweet & bitter. Medium body, soft carbonation. Not bad.
Tried
from Cask
on 29 May 2023
at 21:37
6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Sample thanks to Grumbo: Poured a golden to an orange with a white head. Aroma is grain, light fruit. Taste is fruity, grain.
Tried
on 22 Jul 2021
at 20:05
6.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
4/6/2021. Bottle from the Real Ale Shop, Wells. Pours with a huge frothy white head, all head and no beer for ages. After a long wait it eventually settled clear straw gold. Was it worth the wait though? Pleasingly yes. Nice fruity, hay, light malt and touch spicy nutty aroma. Towards medium sweetness, light to moderate bitterness. Moderate body, soft carbonation. Easy drinking and very sessionable golden ale.
Tried
from Bottle
on 04 Jun 2021
at 18:29
6.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 5
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 6.5
Handpull pint at the Cock Inn, Madingley. Dark gold, clear. Not much head to speak of... and not much aroma either. A bit of hay and wood. Taste is much improved, some honeyed sweetness with a bitter kick. Nice bitter golden syrup finish. Pretty good.
Tried
on 24 Aug 2016
at 13:43
5.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 7
Texture 4
Overall 6
500ml bottle. Barely clear golden colour with average, frothy, half-way lasting, minimally lacing, white head. Slightly anaemic, pale malty aroma, fruity hints of peach, a minimally grassy touch. Taste is minimally sweet pale malty, fruity notes of peach, a minimally spicy yeasty touch; light bodied and quite watery.
Tried
from Bottle
on 07 Oct 2015
at 16:26
6.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 6.5
500ml bottle from Beers of Europe. Pours clear gold with a thin white head, some floaters. Aromas of lemon, pale malt. Taste is light sweet, light lemon. Clean finish. Decent enough.
Tried
from Bottle
on 30 Jul 2015
at 10:29
6.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 10
Overall 6.5
Bottle thanks to allmyvinyl. Appearance -golden with the odd protein lump. Decent head. Nose - pale malt and lemon. Taste - lemon barley water. Palate - light bodied with a creamy texture and a long dry finish. Overall - a decent beer but not distinguishable from many others.
Tried
from Bottle
on 30 Jul 2015
at 10:27