Brooklands Gold Star
Hog's Back Brewery
- From:
- Hog's Back Brewery
- England, United Kingdom
- Style:
- English Bitter
- ABV:
- 4.6%
- Score:
- +8 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.38 | pDev: 8.88%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 2
- Status:
- Inactive
- Rated:
- Mar 08, 2012
- Added:
- May 13, 2011
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
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Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by CwrwAmByth from England
3.68/5 rDev +8.9%
look: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
3.68/5 rDev +8.9%
look: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
Drank straight from the 500ml glass bottle on the train. (making notes on my camra beer magazine!)
Appears to be a golden colour though don't quote me on that.
Smells hoppy, balanced and quite refreshing.
Tastes balanced and refreshing too!
Not much to say really other than it is just a classic refreshing bitter, very drinkable and lip smacking at the same time. Lovely jubbly.
Mar 08, 2012Appears to be a golden colour though don't quote me on that.
Smells hoppy, balanced and quite refreshing.
Tastes balanced and refreshing too!
Not much to say really other than it is just a classic refreshing bitter, very drinkable and lip smacking at the same time. Lovely jubbly.
Reviewed by wl0307 from England
3.08/5 rDev -8.9%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3 | taste: 3 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3
3.08/5 rDev -8.9%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3 | taste: 3 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3
Coming in a 500ml brown bottle, “brewery-conditioned”, according to the back label (i.e. filtered and possibly also pasteurised…?); BB 02/2012, served cool in a straight imperial pint glass.
A: pours a dark burnished golden hue with constant streams of fine fizz and a thin off-white foamy head.
S: overpoweringly sweet and syrupy like caramely malts, barley candy plus over-boiled root vegetable (suspiciously the by-product of pasteurisation?) and salted-sweet prune-ish notes0, leaving very little behind to be enjoyed; a closer sniff hints at citrusy fruitiness, but only to the trivial extent.
T: medium-bodied, the foretaste lightly lubricating in texture, sour-sweet and bitter at the same time, hinting at salted prunes, boiled root vegetables, dried bitter herbs, with an old-ish touch of (possibly) yeastiness that all Hogs Back’s ales have in common. Lightly chewy, rough and bitter in the finish.
M&D: the palate remains refreshing enough, yet the texture is somewhat weird in that a lubricating, or semi-oily, feel remains throughout the drink but doesn’t come in harmony with the overall flavour profile. An “understated” English ale, not quite my cup of tea, though.
May 13, 2011A: pours a dark burnished golden hue with constant streams of fine fizz and a thin off-white foamy head.
S: overpoweringly sweet and syrupy like caramely malts, barley candy plus over-boiled root vegetable (suspiciously the by-product of pasteurisation?) and salted-sweet prune-ish notes0, leaving very little behind to be enjoyed; a closer sniff hints at citrusy fruitiness, but only to the trivial extent.
T: medium-bodied, the foretaste lightly lubricating in texture, sour-sweet and bitter at the same time, hinting at salted prunes, boiled root vegetables, dried bitter herbs, with an old-ish touch of (possibly) yeastiness that all Hogs Back’s ales have in common. Lightly chewy, rough and bitter in the finish.
M&D: the palate remains refreshing enough, yet the texture is somewhat weird in that a lubricating, or semi-oily, feel remains throughout the drink but doesn’t come in harmony with the overall flavour profile. An “understated” English ale, not quite my cup of tea, though.
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