Hrabren (9642) reviewed Gordon Finest Gold from John Martin 3 months ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5
0.33 l can from restaurant K Ivi, Zagreb. Shared with Marko. Clear golden, small off-white head. Aroma is alcoholic, malty, fruity, ripe apple, pear, some candy. Some cardboard and dust. Flavour is alcoholic, ethanol, harsh, peppery, astringent. It's like spirit was poured into the beer. Medium body, soft carbonation, smooth texture, dry finish.
lore (7878) reviewed Gordon Finest Chrome from John Martin 4 months ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 5.5 | Flavor - 3 | Texture - 3 | Overall - 3.5
clear golden colour, large, dense ecru-ish head; aroma of fruits (apple peel and apricot), malty, some floral, minimal yeasty andalcoholic notes; taste of alcohol and some fruitiness; not really good...
gave a cheers!
lore (7878) reviewed Gordon Finest Silver from John Martin 4 months ago
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 4.5 | Texture - 5 | Overall - 6.5
clear golden colour, large, dense ecru-ish head, which lasts for several minutes; aroma and taste of linden honey/honeycomb toffee, candy sugar, syrupy, some floral and moderate herbal hoppy notes; well, would definitely be much better if some more hoppy bitterness balanced the syrupy sweetness, but still I enjoyed it
gave a cheers!
SVD (7137) reviewed Maredret Altus from John Martin 4 months ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Bottle at home, darker orange beer, small head. Aroma is sweet, malt, fruit, yeast, spice. Taste is the same, sweet, bitter, fruit, yeast, bit alcohol warmth. Ok
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 8
Kolor miedziany ciemny, klarowny, piana beżowa, dość obfita, dość trwała. Zapach przyjemny, okrągły, ciasteczka, melasa, karmel rodzynki, daktyle, lekkie nuty alkoholu w tle. W smaku pełne, karmel, melasa, daktyle, suszone zioła, stare drewno, rodzinki, lekkie nuty belgijskie i dobrze ułożony destylaty. Goryczka umiarkowana, karmel, melasa, alkohol. W ustach pełne, okrągłe, lepkie, lekko grzeje. Nasycenie umiarkowane
alex_leit (19548) reviewed Geneviève de Brabant Blanche from John Martin 5 months ago
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 5.5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Can. Milky yellow, hazy. Aroma: spicy, coriander, a little soap, orange peel, a little milky wheat. Taste: wheat, light sourness from the peel of citrus, coriander, a little oily.
Icedwarf (4896) reviewed Gordon Choco Squad from John Martin 5 months ago
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6.5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Donker roodbruin bier met schuim. Smaak is licht bitterzoet met overduidelijk iets van chocolade, wat koffie, marsepein en een vleug hazelnoot.
Alengrin (11609) reviewed Gordon Choco Squad from John Martin 5 months ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6.5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
New variations are added to the infamous Gordon brand every now and then and when I saw this one pass by on social media, I just had to have it, if only just for 'fun': a chocolate-flavoured Scotch, or at least that is what it pretends to be. Medium sized, lacing, pale yellowish beige, moussey head slowly breaking over a crystal clear, deep amber-bronze robe with mahogany brown hue. Aroma of Chocotoff candy, candied cherries, bubblegum, caramel, rosewater, banana peel, cheap brandy, glue, treacle, industrial white sugar syrup, natural rubber - in all, notably less off-putting than feared, I must say. Sweet onset of course but in a simple, sugary way, clean and 'esterless' apart from perhaps a vague touch of fig; medium carb, very slick body, thinnish for its strength, with a cereally core admittedly piling up some caramelly maltiness on top - more so than expected. The promised chocolate effect, though, remains superficial, thin, unconvincing and volatile - in fact there hardly is one, as the whole 'dark sweetness' of this concoction taste more like caramel than like chocolate. Some toasty bitterish malts reside in the finish, hops are only virtually present and a gin-like alcohol presence accentuates both that caramelly sweetness and that toasty aspect of the malts, but there are also glueish, rubbery and plastic-like elements that remind you of the fact that you are still drinking a Gordon. That said, this is a variant on the classic Gordon Scotch ale rather than the umpteenth infernal addition to that truly nightmare-inducing range of Gordon strong lagers, and that I was not expecting at all. Superficial, soulless, thin and silly as it may be, this simple observation means that I disliked this Choco Squad far less than I was expecting - or perhaps even hoping, in view of this Gordon brand being one of my pet hates in beer. Not good at all, of course, just not as infernally bad as anticipated...
