Tioga-Sequioa Brewing Co. 99 Golden Ale (4.8%)
With its rich round honey and flower blossom aroma, 99 Golden Ale is really rather yummy. There’s a soft chewy caramel and French bread malt, and some lightly spiced resinous woody hops that give you a...
View ArticleDark Star Brewing Co. Sunburst (4.8%)
I really thought I’d written about this beer before. I’ve certainly drunk it before. But I can’t find any mention of it, so I may as well put that right. Sunburst is a Golden Ale. A really well made...
View ArticleHop Art Brewery Golden IPA (5.2%)
“That smells like oranges,” my six year old daughter said as she took a sniff. And she’s right. Hop Art’s Golden Ale with extra hops pours a light gold and holds its big frothy head high giving off a...
View ArticleYeastie Boys Golden Perch (4.4%)
Golden Ale? This? Well, it’s golden in my glass but that’s where any resemblance to what you might think makes a Golden Ale ends. The aroma is fresh melon and mango, and I mean fresh. There’s a good...
View ArticleCoastal Brewery Cornish Cascade (5%)
Brewed in Redruth, which isn’t strictly on the coast unless they’ve moved it since I lived in Cornwall, Cornish Cascade is a decent Golden Ale brewed with (unsurprisingly) Cascade hops. What this means...
View ArticleSalopian Brewery Lemon Dream (4.5%)
Lemon Dream has been around for a little while now. In fact it’s a bit of a favourite around the pubs of Shropshire. But this is the first time that’s it has been bottled and I’m pleased that it has …...
View ArticleHopshackle Brewery Simarillo (4%)
Nigel at Hopshackle was one of the first brewers I interviewed for CAMRGB. There was something about Hopshackle that really set them apart from the other brewers that I was getting to know at the time....
View ArticleBishop Nick Revelry (4.5%)
I’ve tried really hard to like Bishop Nick beer, I really have, but I keep being disappointed. And here I go again, as David Coverdale once whined. Revelry is a Golden Ale with, “hops packed in like...
View ArticleCrate Brewery Golden (3.8%)
In general Crate make good beer, but even they can’t blow me away with a Golden Ale. It’s well made and drinkable, pouring a light gold and smelling of straw and caramel, you know, smelling of Golden...
View ArticleLike Two Worlds Not Meant To Collide: My London Beer Week, 2015
You and I are like two worlds Not meant to collide Death to each other In the unravelling of time – The Waterboys “Rags” Last week was London Beer Week and I travelled down to attend a couple of events...
View ArticleLiberation From Taste?
I have just spent a few days on Jersey (mainly in and around St. Helier) and in between the sight seeing I thought I would try some local brews. Trouble is, unless I am mistaken, there is only one...
View ArticleEden Mill 19th Brew (3.9%)
19th Brew is a Golden Ale. A sugared almond and peach smelling Golden Ale. A Golden Ale with a shortbread, straw and runny honey malt, and some popcorn and biscuits in caramel too. It’s a Golden Ale...
View ArticleHopstuff – Single Pacific Gem (4.2%)
Another one from the Hopstuff Brewery Single Hop series but only available in bottled form (I think). The pacific gem hop itself comes from New Zealand but is somewhat different from the other hops I...
View ArticleBragdy Conwy Minera Mountain (4.3%)
I’ve yet to find a Conwy beer that I like, in fact I’ve yet to find one that really tastes of anything. Minera Mountain has ever so slightly more flavour than previous Conwy beer, but it’s an...
View ArticleBlack Isle Brewery Organic Pollinator (5%)
Once upon a time Black Isle were really super, interesting, lovely to drink. Sadly, more recently they’ve started to taste rather samey. Maybe it’s a different process for bottling, maybe it’s corner...
View ArticleLiverpool Craft Beer Co. Brown Bear (5.4%)
This is a review of two halves, in the first half this is brewed with birch smoked wheat and Wirral honey it might be, but I’m struggling anything to get my teeth into here. Don’t get me wrong, this is...
View ArticleBishop Nick Heresy (4%)
Bishop Nick is Ridley’s Brewery new branding, and this is a decent enough Golden Ale. Mind you, it’s taken me some time to find a beer by the brewery that I like, and there were even a couple I liked …...
View ArticleNorth Union Brewing Co. Amber (4.6%)
This is an “Amber/Gold Craft Lager” whatever that means. Does it mean it’s a lagered beer or does it mean it’s a Golden Ale or some such brewed with lager malts and/or hops? Who knows. The bottom line...
View ArticleAdventures In Beer: Poppyland Brewery
I’ve been visiting Norfolk for a few years now, and over the last two or three visits I have been hunting for Poppyland beer pretty much as soon as I arrive. This year I decided it was about time that...
View ArticleAdvent Calendar Competition
Hey folks. We have teamed up with The Beer Hawk to run a snazzy little competition to get you all in the festive mood. Do you fancy winning a Beer Advent Calendar? That’s twenty four bottles of beer to...
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