Hop Garden Gold (Cask)
(Batch of Hop Garden Gold)
Hogs Back Brewery in Tongham, Surrey, England 🏴
Golden / Blonde Ale Regular|
Score
6.07
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A light and refreshing pale golden beer with hints of banana and pineapple. Crafted with a fine blend of the best English malted barley and mainly fresh local Fuggles hops from Puttenham but with some aroma hops at the end of the boil. A good balanced beer with a long dry finish and a sense of sweetness.
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6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Golden with a small white head. Aroma is grassy and floral with a biscuit note. Dry grassy hop flavour with medium bitterness.
Tried
on 18 Dec 2009
at 13:37
5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 4
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 5
Gravicask, sample as H.O.P. from the Hogs Back Brewery Bar, GBBF 09. Golden body topped by a few bubbles. Late fruity to the nose with malty sweetness beneath. Malty sweetness and citrus fruits in flavour developing into a mild bittersweet ending. Dry on the swallow (Earls Court, 07.08.2009).
Tried
from Cask
on 16 Sep 2009
at 09:37
6.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Cask (as ’Hop’, Kings Head Inn JDW, Salisbury) - Gold/amber in colour. Malty and slightly fruity aroma with a hoppy element. Nicely balanced, hoppy and fruity taste with tea and spicy malt.
Tried
from Cask
on 07 Sep 2009
at 04:13
4.8/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 4
Overall 5
Cask@GBBF 2009 as "HOP". Golden color, small white head. Honey in the nose. Honey and a bit lime in the flavor. Light lemony hoppyness in the aftertaste. (6/2/5/2/10 2.5)
Bottled (K-Kamppi, BB 04/2012)
Deep golden color, small white head. Harsh grainy and grassy nose. Light body. Pale malty with light harsh grassy-fruity notes and honey. Quite lame. (4/2/5/2/9 2.2)
Bottled (K-Kamppi, BB 04/2012)
Deep golden color, small white head. Harsh grainy and grassy nose. Light body. Pale malty with light harsh grassy-fruity notes and honey. Quite lame. (4/2/5/2/9 2.2)
Tried
from Cask
on 18 Aug 2009
at 12:39
5.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 4.5
Cask @ Bon Accord. Light golden - greenish colour, off-white head. Aroma is malty and sour. Flavour is malty and sour, with a sour finish. Not much going on here.
Tried
from Cask
on 24 Jun 2009
at 15:29
6.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Cask at GBBF08. Almost clear golden colour. Stable white head. Weak fruity aroma. Good malty flavour. Rough hoppiness, but quite nice still. 6 3 6 3 16
Bottle at KØ12. Cloudy amber colour. Green apple aroma. The flavour is acidic with a spicy hop and a little grain in the finish. 5 3 5 3 15
Bottle at KØ12. Cloudy amber colour. Green apple aroma. The flavour is acidic with a spicy hop and a little grain in the finish. 5 3 5 3 15
Tried
from Cask
on 09 Sep 2008
at 11:03
5.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
Cask@GBBF2008. Ambery golden colour, not much head. Aroma is caramel malts, rubber, some yeast and very bitter fruity notes. Flavour is candy, fruity hops, nectar and rich sweet wooden notes.
Tried
from Cask
on 25 Aug 2008
at 00:58
5.2/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 4
Overall 5
Deep gold with a minimal white head. A light beer with some hay then a huge hoppy bitterness, rather too bitter to actually be refreshing. However, the beer grows on you as some honey & citrus flavour develops; this leaves a slightly syrupy mouthfeel by the end.
Tried
on 10 Jul 2008
at 16:48
5.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Cask handpump @ The Hope Tap, Reading, England.Clear medium yellow orange color with a average, frothy, good lacing, mostly diminishing, off-white to white head. Aroma is light to moderate malty, toasted, light to moderate hoppy, lime, buttery, notes of fruit, banana - pineapple. Flavor is moderate sweet and bitter with a average duration. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft. (010508)
Tried
from Cask
on 04 Jun 2008
at 11:29
6.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Cask at the Monks Retreat (JDW), Reading. Gold with a thick creamy head; fruity aroma; bitter and orangey to start then developing a marmalade sweetness; sweet and sticky finish.
Tried
from Cask
on 06 Jul 2007
at 08:52