Bards Tale Dragons Gold

Brewed by Gordon Biersch Brewing Company
Style: Specialty Grain
Palo Alto, California USA

Bottled as ’Bard’s’, still a sorghum beer. Ok, this one also contract brewed, though is distributed through Norwalk and brewed and bottled in Utica. Grainy, lightly malty nose with some apparent artificial sweetener. Dark golden body, still clear, with a sudsy off-beige head. Crisp smack, medium body, malty with some grass and dull-around-the-edges citrus. Some caramel in with the oxidized cardboard and the sweet after. It’s not terrible, sort of a skunked pale lager.

pours a clear amber with a thin white head, and some lacing. smell is faint, malt, some spice, caramel, and roasted nuts. taste of malt, caramel, slightly metallic, and a funky aftertaste.
Earlier Rating: 1/16/2008 Total Score: 1.6
pour is a clear dark yellow with little to no head. smell is strange, artificial buttered popcorn, french toast. taste is also strange, very buttery, very sweet, thin mouth-feel. overall i don’t really care for this, not good, course now that i see that it is gordon biersch i understand why.

Pours light amber with a white head. Aroma is bready, metallic, and sweet. Flavor is sweet then metallic with that same odd finish that all of these sorghum beers seem to possess.

Shit i keep buying bottles of this sorghum stuff thinking its a real beer. Pours a scotch amber body with a with head. Chewy tawny caramel aroma, and a hint of alcohol aroma not bad!!! Dull metallic, rice wine, and cardboard flavor dammit this one sucks, aroma could have fooled me.

Bottle, 6 fl. oz. Pours a very clear beer with a fizzy white head. The aroma is prune and caramel. The flavor is spicy with a little acidity. The palate is thin. Overall this beer is average.

Pours a two finger white head that fades instantly leaving no lace. Crystal clear amber color. Fizzy carbonation and light-medium bodied. Corn/grainy nose. Flavor is sweet corn and some caramel. Squeaky clean finish. $2.05 for a 12oz bottle from Colonial Spirits Acton, MA. A different beer from what I rated in Oct 2007, different flavor, different head, bottles look different but the beer marketing company says it is the same beer being contract brewed in Utica, NY.
Earlier Rating: 10/1/2007 Total Score: 2.9
Pours a four-finger white head that fades quickly to a thin layer leaving a little lace. Clear amber color. Chocolate floral nose. Light carbonation and light-medium bodied. Flavor is semi-sweet bubblegum, liquid chocolate finish. Not bitter just different. 12oz bottle $2.95 from Kappy’s Fresh Pond Jamaica Plain, MA.

Bottle. Gold with light white head. Malty sugary scent (sugar cane?). Thin at first. Long bitter finish and aftertaste. Malty beer-like. A certain golden ale quality. Hint of toffee. One of the better Soughum products I have tasted.

12 oz bottle pours golden with a monsterous dirty white head that laces pretty well and makes it almost impossible to pour. Aroma is of light hops. A bit of grass, some citrus and some floral notes. Flavor is lemony, hoppy, and some notes of light malt behind. In no way does this compare to budweiser. It is actually a pretty nice summertime micro. I think this was a little better than I expected it to be. Quite light on the palate and easy to drink