Church Brew Celestial Gold

Brewed by Church Brew Works
Style: Premium Lager
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania USA

Bottled. Poured bright, milky golden with a short cap of fizzy white head. The aroma picked up sweet bready malts, honey, and corn accented by lemon-peppery notes.. soft overall and well-presented. The flavor had a sweet pale malty base surrounded be lemon zest and light medicinal notes.. sweet bread and honey on the short, fizzy finish.. aiight. Creamy, very full carbonation on the palate.. enough to interrupt the flow of the drink and make it a bit sharp.. drinkable overall, but nothing really good going for it.

On draft at CBW. Poured pale gold in color with small white ring of head. Aroma of mild mild hops. Taste is of pale malts, mild hop bitterness, earthy. I have to say for a lager, I enjoyed the hops. Other then that, not my thing.

Bottle. Pale gold with a small white head that disappears quickly. Grainy malt aroma with a slight vegetal note. Thin body with heavy carbonation. Sweet start to the flavour with an unpleasant undertone, like overcooked veggies, and an unbalanced bitterness in the finish. Not very good.

Courtesy eclectic. Clear gold. Insignificant white head. Faint aroma of whole grains, corn, and subtle bitter hops. Flavor adds a bit of malty sweetness and more hops- grassy, earthy, bitter. Dry, bitter finish. Light body, suitably well carbonated. Nice warm weather beer.

nope, big miss. i didnt like it nor did the other two i was with. glad it was just a sampler glass. lah lah lah, i hate having to type this crap.

Draft at Brewpub. Pours a sparkling gold with a white head. Not much discernible aroma, just some weak pale malts. Initial flavor of pale malts, bread, perhaps some sweet corn. The herbal hops are surprisingly detectable, but still mild in bitterness. Finish is ultra clean. Not a bad pale lager, but way too sweet for me

The final beer I sampled at the brewery, in a pint glass. The aroma was lightly hoppy with a touch of malt, not too noticeable. It had a clear, light gold color with a foamy white head. A somewhat sour-bitter taste, not much sweetness at all. The body was wet and had a medium-density with a drying finish. I don’t generally expect too much out of this style, but this beer did fairly well.

Brown bottle, 12 ounces, gift from Marc Gratton, savoured on November 7 2007; eye: lots and lots of head: 8 fingers of head for 1 finger of beer, white head is made up of rather large bubbles, straw, clear, lots of effervescence, lots of lacing; nose: nice bitterness, good malt; mouth: lightly acrid, hops, malt, hops again, grapefruit, lots of pine, finale in hops with a hint of sugar, acridness becomes more present as the beer warms, mild astringency, grainy texture, mildly bitter, slightly sweet, medium body, rather carbonated; overall: fine FRANÇAIS Bouteille brune, 12 onces, cadeau de Marc Gratton, savourée le 7 novembre 2007; œil : beaucoup, beaucoup de mousse : 8 doigts de mousse pour 1 doigt de bière, mousse blanche formée de très grosses bulles, paille, claire, très effervescente, dentelle abondante; nez : belle amertume franche, bon malt; bouche : légère âcreté, houblon, malt, houblon de nouveau, pamplemousse, beaucoup de pin, finale en houblon avec une petite pointe sucrée, âcreté qui se développe lorsque la bière se réchauffe, astringence moyenne, texture granuleuse, moyennement amère, très légèrement sucrée, corps moyen, plutôt carbonatée; en résumé : bien