Gold Lager Original
Hepworth & Co. (Brewers) Ltd.
- From:
- Hepworth & Co. (Brewers) Ltd.
- England, United Kingdom
- Style:
- European Pale Lager
- ABV:
- 5%
- Score:
- +9 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 2.42 | pDev: 0%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 1
- Status:
- Retired
- Rated:
- Dec 27, 2003
- Added:
- Dec 27, 2003
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
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Reviewed by mwrseeley from Canada (ON)
2.42/5 rDev 0%
look: 2 | smell: 2.5 | taste: 2 | feel: 3 | overall: 3
2.42/5 rDev 0%
look: 2 | smell: 2.5 | taste: 2 | feel: 3 | overall: 3
Gold Lager comes in an appropriately coloured bottle; the bottle resembles gold bullion. It may be extremely difficult to get yor hands on a bottle (and the bottle itself, not the beer inside the bottle, unfortunately, is the appealing part) of Gold Lager because according to the brewery, it "was produced for an export company called 'Distinctive Drinks' in Sheffield, but not recently." Distinctive packaging, indeed.
Although the beer is marketed as a lager and eponymously named, it seems closer to a wheat beer than anything else. It is a hazy, seemingly unfiltered honey-amber colour. If it was meant to be lager then it deserves a lower grade. If it was intended to be a blonde (which, if you check out the last line of this review, may well be the case) then it deserves a slightly higher grade. I would like to offer a compromise and give it a grade between the two extremes but the fully diminishing head and the total lack of lace give me no choice but to evaluate it as I have.
The aroma conjured up images of horses and barn stalls. The malt flavour was light and bready and there wasn't much going on on the hops front. Bland, flavourless and one-dimensional. It screams for more of a bite.
All is not lost; the sensation on the palate is the best thing Gold Lager has to offer the drinker. There is a nice level of carbonation and the beer is soft and smooth on the tongue.
Even though Hepworth & Company offer their own version in a 660ml bottle which goes by the name of 'Cool Blonde', Gold Lager was marketed as a lager and that is how I have chosen to judge it.
Dec 27, 2003Although the beer is marketed as a lager and eponymously named, it seems closer to a wheat beer than anything else. It is a hazy, seemingly unfiltered honey-amber colour. If it was meant to be lager then it deserves a lower grade. If it was intended to be a blonde (which, if you check out the last line of this review, may well be the case) then it deserves a slightly higher grade. I would like to offer a compromise and give it a grade between the two extremes but the fully diminishing head and the total lack of lace give me no choice but to evaluate it as I have.
The aroma conjured up images of horses and barn stalls. The malt flavour was light and bready and there wasn't much going on on the hops front. Bland, flavourless and one-dimensional. It screams for more of a bite.
All is not lost; the sensation on the palate is the best thing Gold Lager has to offer the drinker. There is a nice level of carbonation and the beer is soft and smooth on the tongue.
Even though Hepworth & Company offer their own version in a 660ml bottle which goes by the name of 'Cool Blonde', Gold Lager was marketed as a lager and that is how I have chosen to judge it.
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