Gluten Reduced Golden Ale
Yukon Brewing
- From:
- Yukon Brewing
- Yukon, Canada
- Style:
- American Blonde Ale
- ABV:
- 5%
- Score:
- +9 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.68 | pDev: 0%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 1
- Status:
- Retired
- Rated:
- Mar 20, 2014
- Added:
- Mar 20, 2014
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
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Reviewed by biboergosum from Canada (AB)
3.68/5 rDev 0%
look: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.75
3.68/5 rDev 0%
look: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.75
16oz glass at Beer Revolution Edmonton. The brewery claims that this comes in at 11 ppm of gluten, below the GF label mandated 20 ppm, and is made with barley (yay) that has been modified (um...yay?).
This beer appears a clear, medium copper amber colour, with one solid finger of thinly foamy, mostly soapy ecru head, which leaves a decent wall of painted limestone lace around the glass as things evenly sink away.
It smells of understated semi-sweet bready pale malt, faint drupe fruit esters, a hard water minerality, and soft leafy, earthy hops. The taste is grainy, bready pale malt, a hint of caramel sweetness, mild yeasty sourdough notes, lightly tart apple and pear, a persistent flintiness, and more tame earthy, leafy, and somewhat musty hops.
The bubbles are decently active and supportive across the board, the body just on the lee side of medium weight, and perhaps a tad tacky in its workaday smoothness. It finishes off-dry, the grainy breadiness waning hardly at all, while the fruitiness goes dark, and the hops fulfill their contractual obligations.
Well, unsurprisingly, Yukon releases a gluten-adjusted offering that actually tastes like a real beer, and in this instance, it's the base Yukon Gold - an agreeable enough blonde ale in the first place. I'm also rating this as such - were I to treat it strictly as a GF option - this would be a leader among the world beaters for the proto-style.
Mar 20, 2014This beer appears a clear, medium copper amber colour, with one solid finger of thinly foamy, mostly soapy ecru head, which leaves a decent wall of painted limestone lace around the glass as things evenly sink away.
It smells of understated semi-sweet bready pale malt, faint drupe fruit esters, a hard water minerality, and soft leafy, earthy hops. The taste is grainy, bready pale malt, a hint of caramel sweetness, mild yeasty sourdough notes, lightly tart apple and pear, a persistent flintiness, and more tame earthy, leafy, and somewhat musty hops.
The bubbles are decently active and supportive across the board, the body just on the lee side of medium weight, and perhaps a tad tacky in its workaday smoothness. It finishes off-dry, the grainy breadiness waning hardly at all, while the fruitiness goes dark, and the hops fulfill their contractual obligations.
Well, unsurprisingly, Yukon releases a gluten-adjusted offering that actually tastes like a real beer, and in this instance, it's the base Yukon Gold - an agreeable enough blonde ale in the first place. I'm also rating this as such - were I to treat it strictly as a GF option - this would be a leader among the world beaters for the proto-style.
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