Gravitas
Vale Brewery in Brill, Buckinghamshire, England 🏴
Golden / Blonde Ale Regular|
Score
6.40
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Our flagship pale ale is packed with Cascade hops that provide a wonderful citrus aroma, rounded off with a smooth biscuit base layer.
Hops: Cascade
Malt: Pale Planet
Hops: Cascade
Malt: Pale Planet
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6.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 5.5
Flavor 6.5
Texture 8
Overall 6.5
500ml bottle purchased from a delivery from the brewery and drunk at home. Lighter gold, almost straw, maybe a trifle cloudy with a thin uneven wisp of white head. Malty aroma, a little astringent, with outside character of lemon curd and gooseberry. Sweet taste, really jammy, reminiscent of oranges with a bitterness in the finish. Light body but the carbonation is really heavy and gives it something. It isn't great but it's a passable enough golden. They tried.
Tried
from Bottle
on 04 Aug 2026
at 21:51
6.8/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 7
Overall 7
Clear golden pour with a decent white head. Aromas of (sweet) citrus, mango, malt/grain. Taste is grapefruit, malt, mango and herbs for a decent bitter finish. Nice one.
Tried
from Can
from Beer52
on 31 May 2026
at 20:41
5.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 5
Flavor 6
Texture 5
Overall 6
Fra fat på The Mossy Well, sammen med Stephen: klar lys gylden med fint skum som varer til bunns. En frisk og lettdrikkelig sak med deilige inntrykk av citrus, granskudd og lys malt.
Tried
from Draft
at
Mossy Well (JDW)
on 29 Nov 2025
at 20:36
6.3/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6.5
Flavor 6.5
Texture 6
Overall 6
Cask in Northampton. Light gold with a frothy head. Aroma of yeasty hop. Flavour is citrus grains, bread on a bitter lemon hop finish.
Tried
from Cask
on 22 Nov 2025
at 00:00
6.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Cask at the London and North Western JDW, Birmingham. Poured a crystal clear yellow golden colour with a mostly lasting frothy white head. The aroma is malt, yeasty, light woody hops. The flavour is moderate bitter, with a smooth, yeasty, earthy, herbal, woody hop bitter palate. Medium bodied with soft carbonation.
Tried
from Cask
on 04 Oct 2024
at 20:59
6.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Cask at The Four Candles (JDW), Oxford. Did what you'd want from a classic English pale. Good grippy bitter ending and some apple notes. Floral.
Tried
from Cask
on 24 Sep 2024
at 16:56
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Tried
on 13 Feb 2023
at 08:48
7.6/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 6
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Cask at Bull & Stirrup, Chester. Pours golden brown with a medium sized foamy off-white head and good lacing. There’s malts and marmalade in the aroma. In the mouth the main flavours initially are traditional hops, malts and biscuit. Later it becomes more bitter with autumn fruits and traces of ginger and spices. There’s fruitiness in the finish too. This is a soid decent best bitter.
Tried
from Cask
on 29 Nov 2022
at 00:03
6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 5
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Cask at Wellington Arms, half pint shared with Finn. Bright golden body, filmy layer at the surface, clingy lacing. Ripe citrus nose, a note of lemon. Ripe fruity flavours, impacts of lemon and orange, offset by caramel malts. Expressive semi-dry bitter finish. Decent. (Bedford 18.11.2021).
Tried
from Cask
on 13 Dec 2021
at 12:32
6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Delt med Rune. Lys gylden. Klar. Filmskum. Lett ferskenaroma. Smaken søt frukt. Lett bitter fruktig avslutning.
Tried
on 18 Nov 2021
at 16:44