Indy's Strong Golden Ale
Laurelwood Brewing Co.
- From:
- Laurelwood Brewing Co.
- Oregon, United States
- Style:
- American Strong Ale
- ABV:
- 8.2%
- Score:
- +8 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.08 | pDev: 0%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 2
- Status:
- Retired
- Rated:
- Jul 07, 2008
- Added:
- Jun 27, 2008
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
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Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by ccrida from Oregon
3.08/5 rDev 0%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3 | taste: 3 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3
3.08/5 rDev 0%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3 | taste: 3 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3
On tap at the 23rd St pub, 57 IBU with Saaz and I think Crystal hops. Served in a nonic, Indy's Strong Golden Ale is chill-hazed dark gold with a small, creamy egg-shell head that leaves no lace.
Smell is soft and sweet, floral hops and fruity hops and esters.
Taste is strong malt flavor, fair amount of floral hoppiness, although not as much as the menu description had me expecting. There is a strong malty bite to the finish, but it's not to bitter and fairly clean, with the alcohol well hidden. Lacking depth and not very interesting, it's a very generic strong ale. With what I'd guess was 100% pale malt, it needed either more hops or esters to provide flavor.
Mouthfeel is not to thick for the side, on the drier side.
Drinkability is average, it's very generic and homebrewish, and although the strength is well hidden, it did nothing for me, and didn't go very well with their tasty food.
Jul 07, 2008Smell is soft and sweet, floral hops and fruity hops and esters.
Taste is strong malt flavor, fair amount of floral hoppiness, although not as much as the menu description had me expecting. There is a strong malty bite to the finish, but it's not to bitter and fairly clean, with the alcohol well hidden. Lacking depth and not very interesting, it's a very generic strong ale. With what I'd guess was 100% pale malt, it needed either more hops or esters to provide flavor.
Mouthfeel is not to thick for the side, on the drier side.
Drinkability is average, it's very generic and homebrewish, and although the strength is well hidden, it did nothing for me, and didn't go very well with their tasty food.
Reviewed by RedDiamond from Oregon
3.08/5 rDev 0%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3 | taste: 3 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3
3.08/5 rDev 0%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3 | taste: 3 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3
A peculiar beer of indeterminate pedigree, it is sweet like overripe honeydew tinged with rhubarb. But the fragrance carries phenols and alcohol further than I'd care to have them and the hops - allegedly 57 IBUs worth of Saaz and Liberty - are insufficient to counterbalance the beer's potential deficits. It's not an altogether bad beer. That would be a pretty rare occurrence in Laurelwood's house. And if you let it warm a bit and you may acquiesce to its idiosyncratic jive. But this one was too harsh and irregular to gain my appreciations.
Jun 27, 2008
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