Guinness Golden Ale | Guinness Ltd.
Brewed by:
Guinness Ltd.
Ireland
guinness.com
Style: English Pale Ale
Alcohol by volume (ABV): 4.50%
Availability: Year-round
Notes / Commercial Description:
None provided.
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Ratings: 59 | Reviews: 17
5/5 rDev +51.5%
look: 5 | smell: 5 | taste: 5 | feel: 5 | overall: 5
Deliciously smooth, caramel-coloured, malty flavour, despite the name. The archetypal 'amber liquid'.
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look: 5 | smell: 5 | taste: 5 | feel: 5 | overall: 5
Deliciously smooth, caramel-coloured, malty flavour, despite the name. The archetypal 'amber liquid'.
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3.01/5 rDev -8.8%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 2.75 | feel: 3 | overall: 3
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 2.75 | feel: 3 | overall: 3
4.17/5 rDev +26.4%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4 | overall: 4.25
Puuchased in Dublin. Pours clear gold in color with one inch head. Taste is wheat, mineral, and pale malt. Light bodied, sweet, moderate carbonation. Makes for a nice and light, clean sessionable ale.
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look: 4.25 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4 | overall: 4.25
Puuchased in Dublin. Pours clear gold in color with one inch head. Taste is wheat, mineral, and pale malt. Light bodied, sweet, moderate carbonation. Makes for a nice and light, clean sessionable ale.
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2.25/5 rDev -31.8%
look: 2.25 | smell: 2.25 | taste: 2.25 | feel: 2.25 | overall: 2.25
look: 2.25 | smell: 2.25 | taste: 2.25 | feel: 2.25 | overall: 2.25
3.19/5 rDev -3.3%
look: 3.25 | smell: 3 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3.25
look: 3.25 | smell: 3 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3.25
3.38/5 rDev +2.4%
look: 3.25 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.25
look: 3.25 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.25
3.35/5 rDev +1.5%
look: 4 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.25
look: 4 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.25
2.88/5 rDev -12.7%
look: 3 | smell: 3 | taste: 2.75 | feel: 2.75 | overall: 3
12/12/17 impression from a bottle:
More amber than golden in malt character, to be fair. Pretty unremarkable fare.
C / AVERAGE
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look: 3 | smell: 3 | taste: 2.75 | feel: 2.75 | overall: 3
12/12/17 impression from a bottle:
More amber than golden in malt character, to be fair. Pretty unremarkable fare.
C / AVERAGE
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3.72/5 rDev +12.7%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 4
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 4
3.58/5 rDev +8.5%
look: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.5
330 ml bottle into pint glass, bottled on 10/6/2016. Pours slightly hazy deep orange/copper/amber color with a 1-2 finger dense cream colored head with good retention, that reduces to a small cap that lingers. Nice spotty soapy lacing clings on the glass, with a fair amount of streaming carbonation. Aromas of honey, brown sugar, bread dough, toasted biscuit, and nuttiness; with lighter notes of caramel, plum, apricot, apple, herbal, wood, grass, and yeast/toasted earthiness. Nice and pleasant aromas with good balance of bready malt and light-moderate earthy hop/fruity yeast notes; with solid strength. Taste of honey, brown sugar, bread dough, toasted biscuit, and nuttiness; with lighter notes of caramel, plum, apricot, apple, herbal, wood, grass, and yeast/toasted earthiness. Very mild herbal, woody, grassy bitterness on the finish. Lingering notes of honey, brown sugar, bread dough, toasted biscuit, nuttiness, light caramel/fruit, herbal, wood, grass, and yeast/toasted earthiness on the finish for a good bit. Nice robustness and balance of bready malt and light-moderate earthy hop/fruity yeast flavors; with a nice malt/bitterness balance, and zero cloying flavors after the finish. Slightly increasing dryness from bitterness. Fairly clean finishing. Medium carbonation and body; with a very smooth, moderately creamy/bready/grainy, and slightly sticky mouthfeel that is nice. Zero warming alcohol as expected of 4.5%. Overall this is a good standard English pale ale. All around good robustness and balance of bready malt and light-moderate earthy hop/fruity yeast flavors; very smooth, clean, and refreshing to drink with the mildly bitter finish. Very flavorful for the low ABV. Clean bready English malt flavors; with restrained hop and yeast presence. Fits the English pale ale style perfectly fine, but comes off underwhelming. Slight touch of diacetyl noticed after I finished the glass, but well within style limits. A nicely enjoyable offering.
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look: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.5
330 ml bottle into pint glass, bottled on 10/6/2016. Pours slightly hazy deep orange/copper/amber color with a 1-2 finger dense cream colored head with good retention, that reduces to a small cap that lingers. Nice spotty soapy lacing clings on the glass, with a fair amount of streaming carbonation. Aromas of honey, brown sugar, bread dough, toasted biscuit, and nuttiness; with lighter notes of caramel, plum, apricot, apple, herbal, wood, grass, and yeast/toasted earthiness. Nice and pleasant aromas with good balance of bready malt and light-moderate earthy hop/fruity yeast notes; with solid strength. Taste of honey, brown sugar, bread dough, toasted biscuit, and nuttiness; with lighter notes of caramel, plum, apricot, apple, herbal, wood, grass, and yeast/toasted earthiness. Very mild herbal, woody, grassy bitterness on the finish. Lingering notes of honey, brown sugar, bread dough, toasted biscuit, nuttiness, light caramel/fruit, herbal, wood, grass, and yeast/toasted earthiness on the finish for a good bit. Nice robustness and balance of bready malt and light-moderate earthy hop/fruity yeast flavors; with a nice malt/bitterness balance, and zero cloying flavors after the finish. Slightly increasing dryness from bitterness. Fairly clean finishing. Medium carbonation and body; with a very smooth, moderately creamy/bready/grainy, and slightly sticky mouthfeel that is nice. Zero warming alcohol as expected of 4.5%. Overall this is a good standard English pale ale. All around good robustness and balance of bready malt and light-moderate earthy hop/fruity yeast flavors; very smooth, clean, and refreshing to drink with the mildly bitter finish. Very flavorful for the low ABV. Clean bready English malt flavors; with restrained hop and yeast presence. Fits the English pale ale style perfectly fine, but comes off underwhelming. Slight touch of diacetyl noticed after I finished the glass, but well within style limits. A nicely enjoyable offering.
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3.76/5 rDev +13.9%
look: 4.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.75
look: 4.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.75
3.23/5 rDev -2.1%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 2.5 | overall: 3.25
look: 3.5 | smell: 3 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 2.5 | overall: 3.25
3.32/5 rDev +0.6%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.25
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.25
3.84/5 rDev +16.4%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.75
A good, but not the best, beer from Guinness Ltd. Pours a dark golden color. The flavors follow the nose. Mild honey with hop bitterness. The mouthfeel is light and there is medium carbonation. This is close to an IPA but not quite. Fairly dry, with a subtle bitterness. Not bad overall but not something I would select again.
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look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.75
A good, but not the best, beer from Guinness Ltd. Pours a dark golden color. The flavors follow the nose. Mild honey with hop bitterness. The mouthfeel is light and there is medium carbonation. This is close to an IPA but not quite. Fairly dry, with a subtle bitterness. Not bad overall but not something I would select again.
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3.39/5 rDev +2.7%
look: 4.25 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
look: 4.25 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
3.41/5 rDev +3.3%
look: 2.75 | smell: 3 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3.5
look: 2.75 | smell: 3 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3.5
3.67/5 rDev +11.2%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.5
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.5
3.13/5 rDev -5.2%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3 | overall: 3
From the 12 oz bottle in a snifter. This golden ale pours a medium amber color with a
decent head of white foam that settles to a thick ring, thin layer, and showcases light lacing.
Nose of subtle grains, light English style yeast notes, and a hint of sweet malts. Flavors follow the
nose with light exception giving way to mild honey malts and medium grain notes and a medium
hop bitterness. Light mouth feel, medium carbonation, and a clean grain touched finish.
Overall, not much of a golden ale in color and flavor and not much more than a thirst quencher.
This is a shame really, the rye was so nice. Fine for a primer brew after mowing the lawn, other than that
it is pretty lack luster to bear the name Guinness.
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look: 3.5 | smell: 3 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3 | overall: 3
From the 12 oz bottle in a snifter. This golden ale pours a medium amber color with a
decent head of white foam that settles to a thick ring, thin layer, and showcases light lacing.
Nose of subtle grains, light English style yeast notes, and a hint of sweet malts. Flavors follow the
nose with light exception giving way to mild honey malts and medium grain notes and a medium
hop bitterness. Light mouth feel, medium carbonation, and a clean grain touched finish.
Overall, not much of a golden ale in color and flavor and not much more than a thirst quencher.
This is a shame really, the rye was so nice. Fine for a primer brew after mowing the lawn, other than that
it is pretty lack luster to bear the name Guinness.
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3.38/5 rDev +2.4%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3.5
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3.5
3.5/5 rDev +6.1%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
3.58/5 rDev +8.5%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
3.56/5 rDev +7.9%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
Pours golden yellow/amber with minor head and light lacing. Smells very mild, light hops, grain, sweetness. The taste is not bad but again missing a lot of flavor. A dry mild hops with some grain mixed in, carbonated, and minor sweetness. The finish is mild and light. Overall a beer that if given more work could be good but it came up flat and boring to be honest. I just don't get the whole side project that seems to focus on ZERO flavor, really disappointed with Guinness.
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look: 3.5 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
Pours golden yellow/amber with minor head and light lacing. Smells very mild, light hops, grain, sweetness. The taste is not bad but again missing a lot of flavor. A dry mild hops with some grain mixed in, carbonated, and minor sweetness. The finish is mild and light. Overall a beer that if given more work could be good but it came up flat and boring to be honest. I just don't get the whole side project that seems to focus on ZERO flavor, really disappointed with Guinness.
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Guinness Golden Ale from Guinness Ltd.
Beer rating:
3.3 out of
5 with
59 ratings
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