Gilded Age Golden Lager
Keel Farms Agrarian Ale + Cider
- From:
- Keel Farms Agrarian Ale + Cider
- Florida, United States
- Style:
- Helles
- ABV:
- 4.5%
- Score:
- 82
- Avg:
- 3.52 | pDev: 10.23%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 4
- Status:
- Inactive
- Rated:
- Jan 14, 2017
- Added:
- Aug 25, 2014
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 5
SCORE
82
Good
82
Good
No description / notes.
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Reviewed by DuffDaddy from Florida
3/5 rDev -14.8%
look: 3 | smell: 3 | taste: 3 | feel: 3 | overall: 3
3/5 rDev -14.8%
look: 3 | smell: 3 | taste: 3 | feel: 3 | overall: 3
Part of a flight at the brewery with Bro, Sis and Bessie. Flight plus growler and fill with a Groupon. Decent lager but nothing special in this offering.
Nov 18, 2015
Reviewed by tempest from New York
3.47/5 rDev -1.4%
look: 2.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.5
3.47/5 rDev -1.4%
look: 2.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.5
Hazy, but a pleasant Helles lager for the Florida heat. There's a bit of spicy hops behind the doughy malts. Tasty, but not crisp. You could mistake this for a blond ale.
Oct 23, 2015
Reviewed by TX-Badger from Texas
3/5 rDev -14.8%
look: 3 | smell: 3 | taste: 3 | feel: 3 | overall: 3
3/5 rDev -14.8%
look: 3 | smell: 3 | taste: 3 | feel: 3 | overall: 3
Pours a clear golden color with white head. Cereal grains and some bread on the nose; follows onto the palate. Finishes with a very typical lager-like flavor.
Jan 30, 2015
Reviewed by NeroFiddled from Pennsylvania
3.79/5 rDev +7.7%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.75
3.79/5 rDev +7.7%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.75
Two Henrys Brewing Co. "Gilded Age" Golden Lager
12 oz. can, no freshness dating
$2.49 @ Total Wine & More #901, Tampa, FL
Two Henrys' Gilded Age pours a slightly hazy yellow body beneath full head of bright white foam that steadily recedes to a whispy-but-solid surface covering. Standard sized bubbles can be seen steadily streaming towards the surface; and with each sip a short wall of lacing is left behind to slowly erode into broken patches, streaks, and spots.
The aroma is clean and bright with floral and grassy hops, a soft apple-like fruitiness, and a touch of yeast over sweetish, grainy malt. The flavor follows suit with the distinctly grainy and somewhat honey-like malt dominating. Grassy, floral, and subtly spicy and lemony hops back it. The yeast found in the aroma is not as pronounced in the flavor, and gives more of a "fresh beer" characteristic than anything else. A firm bitterness anchors it and helps to dry it in the finish along with the spicy hops.
Additional notes: This is a little bit of an odd bird. I feel a bit more aging, or even just tighter filtration, would lend it a bit of polish and tame some of the "green" character it displays - but that would leave it just like any other golden lager, or at least put it in the same ball park, and what fun is that? As it is, I appreciate its grainy maltiness and yeast flavor as they're both within a certain limitation; and I do think, as the label states "this is the beer most like what the Henrys would've enjoyed at the turn of the century...". Easily drinkable and enjoyable, I'd recommend at least giving it a try.
Jan 08, 201512 oz. can, no freshness dating
$2.49 @ Total Wine & More #901, Tampa, FL
Two Henrys' Gilded Age pours a slightly hazy yellow body beneath full head of bright white foam that steadily recedes to a whispy-but-solid surface covering. Standard sized bubbles can be seen steadily streaming towards the surface; and with each sip a short wall of lacing is left behind to slowly erode into broken patches, streaks, and spots.
The aroma is clean and bright with floral and grassy hops, a soft apple-like fruitiness, and a touch of yeast over sweetish, grainy malt. The flavor follows suit with the distinctly grainy and somewhat honey-like malt dominating. Grassy, floral, and subtly spicy and lemony hops back it. The yeast found in the aroma is not as pronounced in the flavor, and gives more of a "fresh beer" characteristic than anything else. A firm bitterness anchors it and helps to dry it in the finish along with the spicy hops.
Additional notes: This is a little bit of an odd bird. I feel a bit more aging, or even just tighter filtration, would lend it a bit of polish and tame some of the "green" character it displays - but that would leave it just like any other golden lager, or at least put it in the same ball park, and what fun is that? As it is, I appreciate its grainy maltiness and yeast flavor as they're both within a certain limitation; and I do think, as the label states "this is the beer most like what the Henrys would've enjoyed at the turn of the century...". Easily drinkable and enjoyable, I'd recommend at least giving it a try.
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