Aldi Golden Pale Ale

Brewed by Batemans
Style: Bitter
Skegness, England

Clear gold in colour with slight carbonation. Skunky, boiled sweet and tired hop aroma. light mouth feel, with sweet, barley sugar flavours and a hint of a bitter finish. Another English pasteurised bottled beer failure - sink pour.

I usually like Batemans beers and gold/blonde beers are one of my favourite styles but this is poor, thin and lacks much in the way of aroma and flavour. Poor stuff, try the triple xb instead.

Bottle from Aldi somewhere. Golden with a thinner head than slabhead Jamie at my old school if anyone remembers him. And it went quicker than the Flash on ice. Smells a little dusty and like that wooden floor polish they used to do the floors with at school. Slight fruit, malts and butter with a hint of metal. As you can imagine, not a winning combination.

Bottle picked up at Aldi, Aylesbury, Bucks, Nov 08, consumed 11-01-09. Pours mid-dark golden in colour with a metallic nose mixed with some malt. The metallic characteristics come through in the mouth along with some banana and toffee. There is fruitiness which adds a tang, but overall its a bit of a average beer no more no less. A5 A4 F5 P3 OV10 2.7

Bottle. Golden with no head. Aromas are butter and sweet malts with citrus. Flavours are sweet grain and buttery malts with bitter, metallic notes. Dry on the finish. Lacks character.

Bottle, From Grimsby Aldi. Gold, thin but lasting white head and moderate condition. Gentle honeyed sweetness and low lemon citrus in the nose, quite thin and dry in the mouth with a low hop note and a slight tang of citrus, short finish with a slightly stale oiliness.

500ml bottle from Aldi. Batemans cask beers are OK, but the bottled beers suffer due to the processing - the filtering and pasteurising. It does not make them ugly, but it does reduce their pleasurability, and introduces unwanted flavours and characteristics. The beers do not become distinctively Batemans due to the processing, but they do become distinctively processed and produce flavours all too familiar with drinkers of pasteurised bottled British ales. I do not know why Batemans call this a golden ale as it is a run of the mill and very dull bitter with a colour only just emerging from amber into yellow. Bog standard pasteurised bitter.

Bottled, pasteurised, 500ml from Aldi, Banbury. Burnished gold with white head. Over pasteurised tinny notes to the fore, a little on the boiled grainy side.Some saving hop around, but fairly bland and a touch dusty, past it. Not great.