Goldfinger Brewing Company

Microbrewery in Downers Grove, Illinois, United States 🇺🇸
Associated Venue: Goldfinger Brewing Company

Established in 2020

Contact
513 Rogers St, Downers Grove, IL, 60515, United States
Description
A revived 19th century lager beer tradition. Horizontal tanks, natural carbonation, extended lagering, and decoction brewing.

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8.1/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 8 Flavor 8 Texture 8 Overall 8.5
16oz can from the brewery. One of the best Czech style lagers I've had. Pleasant light bitterness, awesome clean malt body. Perfect lagering, fresh, oh so drinkable. Sublime. Great.
Tried from Can on 09 Apr 2023 at 04:57

7.6/10 Appearance 10 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 8 Overall 7.5
Draft at Goldfinger. Amber and henna color, with a big parfait head. A big malty nose that just hits right. Nice hearty malt beer taste, with a bit of fruit leather. Hops seem to be both German and English style, with some fresh hop leaves. But again, a clean lager finish.
Tried from Draft on 22 Mar 2023 at 02:11

8.1/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 8 Flavor 8 Texture 8 Overall 8.5
16oz can. Perhaps the most enjoyable Mexican lager I've ever had. Hyper session able, delicate, soft medium body. Quality ingredients, great brewing. Awesome.
Tried from Can on 02 Mar 2023 at 16:47

8/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 8 Flavor 8 Texture 8 Overall 8
16oz can, day of canning. Could pass for any variation of dark lager. Medium bodied, smooth, creamy. World Class, delicious
Tried from Can on 06 Feb 2023 at 19:01

7.6/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 7 Flavor 8 Texture 8 Overall 7.5
Draft at Goldfinger. Dry, light malty smell with a note of sodium from softened Pils water. Bright, clear yellow with a leggy bit of foam on top. Taste is sharp with spicy noble hop, a little bit of flower blossom. Bitterness shots to the back of my throat, and gets a very slight lemon note. Prickly and tingly all the way down. Dry, toasty malt finish.
Tried from Draft on 14 Jan 2023 at 05:05

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Draft at Goldfinger. Deep brown with leggy tan foam along the sides of the glass. Smell is a nice blend of lightly roast malt and roast coffee. Tasty, tasty, tasty. The coffee gives it more of a stout note. The roast on the palate is not quite as strong as on the nose. The serve gave me a taste of the base Baltic porter for comparison. That's a little sweeter, with a bit lighter roast. Coffee does not exhibit much bitterness by itself. There's still a dry lager finish, and a thin coating on my lips. Glad I got to try this limited beer.
Tried from Draft on 04 Dec 2022 at 00:13

8.5/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 8 Flavor 8 Texture 10 Overall 9
16oz can. Doesn't have the head that it had at the brewery. Pretty awesome Pils. World Class stuff really. Bready malts, and a zesty, full noble hop tone. Perfect balance, awesome execution. This is what I hope the future of US Pils tastes like. Supremely enjoyable beer, no gimmicks in sight.
Tried from Can on 23 Nov 2022 at 05:01

7.9/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 8 Texture 10 Overall 8.5
16oz can from the brewery. Less than a week from canning date. Bready, light, effervescent. Easy drinking, quite refreshing. Quite delicate on the palate, really clean and easy drinking, but also has some nice malt undertone. World Class Helles, pretzely melanoidan touches? Great stuff, really impressive execution.
Tried from Can on 22 Nov 2022 at 03:00

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Tap at Goldfinger. Steady, creamy head. Tan-brown body, hints of amber perhaps. Really nice example of the styles, deep malt nuances, but clean and drinkable too. Really true to style, with a soft pillowy body from the sidepour. World Class.
Tried from Draft on 19 Nov 2022 at 23:24

7.8/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 8 Flavor 8 Texture 8 Overall 8
Tap at Goldfinger. 8 dollar half liter. Smells official and awesome. Smoke centered all the way, true to style. Filtered. Good, but unfortunate that it has to cost close to ten dollars a pint after tax and tip. Hopefully they put this is six-packs, as bar price is untenable for me.
Tried from Draft on 19 Nov 2022 at 22:57