Brooklyn Bright Golding

Brewed by Brooklyn Brewery
Style: English Strong Ale
Brooklyn, New York USA

On tap. Poured a deeper golden color with a smaller sized white head. Aromas of floral, buttery, and lightly fruity. The butteriness became stronger as I drank this one. Tastes of floarl, fruity, lighter butteriness, and some dough. Light alcohol finish.

@ Brazen Head on cask-pours a white head that laces and hazy yellow color. Aroma is wheat, secondary sweet lemon. Taste is wheat, light fruit, secondary sweet lemon, yeast, creamy. On the light side of medium body. Nice.

Cask at Brazen Head. Very pale golden beer with a thick white head. Soft pilsner malt. A touch of earthy fruity character. Lemony citrus, light spice and a soft earthy bitterness. A touch of lemongrass and lime character. A touch of mint and raisiny fruit on the back. I like it.

Cask @ Brazen Head. Poured a hazy yellow color with a white head. The aroma was straight out lemons with flowers and some alcohol. Also included was some sweaty, earthy and tangerine notes. The flavor was odd. Grainy and lemony with some floral hops. Dry bitter finish with a light to medium body. I went back and forth with the flavor score and I’ll go with the 6 versus the original 5.

[Draft @ Barcade] Poured a hazy golden amber color with a small white head, that left light lacing on the glass. Aroma of vanilla, dough, diactyl, caramel and a bit of citrus. Taste was on the sweeter side, buttery popcorn, toffee malts, light dough, and woody hops. I’m assuming the butteriness was intentional, but I thought it left this overall sticky.

Tap at Hop Devil. Pours a slight chilll haze, medium gold with a whtie head and some lace. Aroma actually has a moderate amount of Diacetyl with its bready doughy malt character, and some herbal earthy hops. Bready doughy, some citric wheaty hints, toasted malts, more diacetyl- light butteryness, and a clean floral hop bitterness. Wierd- seems like it coud be an English pale ale, but the body is a bit big, and is a bit more malt in there- typical english diacetyl which I would have preferred if it was absent, but whatever- it’s english.

On tap at HDG. Smells like vanilla andpopcorn. Not the best of starts. The taste is of unmilled malts. I like this beer especially the subtly of the use of the hop.

Cask at the Brazen Head: Hazy light yellow pour. Sweet yeast in the aroma with hints of fresh, not sweet banana and green raisins as well. Drier flavor than the aroma suggests, yet it lacks character. Upfront has some bitter green raisins, and has some grassy bitterness. Not much depth at all, and when I first had this I would’ve never guessed it was an English Strong...