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Church Brew Celestial Gold

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922.68/5.02.69/5.04.1%57.6Lager glass
Commercial Description:
This beer is golden in color with a light bubbly effervescence. The light body makes this lager beer appropriate for a business lunch or your evening sipping beer. The light malt flavor also accentuates the hop flavor. From the start, you will notice a fine hop aroma. As you sip the Celestial Gold, the subdued maltiness blends with a slight hop flavor. When this beer finishes, you will notice a pleasant hop bitterness. The bitterness will be mild and quite appropriate.
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 Sammy (4057), Toronto, Ontario, Canada
2.6 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
5/103/55/102/511/20
Jul 17, 2007  
Just a regular lager, not really a pils. Malt in aroma. Nothing special but quaffable.Low hop flavour, IBU 18. Light mouthfeel.


 Cletus (5058), Connecticut, USA
2.7 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
5/103/55/103/511/20
Jun 25, 2007  
Bottle courtesy of lukin013. Pours gold with a thin ring of white bubbles. Smells of caramel, some citrus, and sweet malt. Taste is sweet with some light peppery tinges. Average.


 obxdude10 (1563), Pottstown, Pennsylvania, USA
2.5 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
4/102/55/103/511/20
Jun 14, 2007  
Golden in color, decent white head, nice lacing left around the glass, aroma of light hop, lemon & grass, very light in body, thin flavors, a little watery, light hop flavor with more notes of bread & a bit of malt, grainy finish, very average & a little uninteresting


 jsquire (2123), St. Marys, Ohio, USA
2.2 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
4/103/54/103/58/20
May 27, 2007  
Light gold out of the bottle with a thin fizzy white head. The nose has a real macro creamed corn sweetness to it. The flavors include a real artificail sweetness and a metalic note that is just jangling. What hops that are here are really oxidized. It tastes like licking nickels. I suppose this is a functional lawn mower beer, but after the Troegs Pils, this suffers greatly.


 Delirium (502), Santa Cruz, California, USA
2.6 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
5/103/55/103/510/20
May 17, 2007  
Draught at the church. Pours light golden with a small white head. Aroma is nondescript, slightly sweet malt. Flavor is typical premium lager... pretty decent but doesn’t stand out.


 JCapriotti (1378), Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA
3.3 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/104/56/104/513/20
Apr 19, 2007  
Clear yellow body, white thin head. Fresh, crisp, "Miller-esque" lager flavor. I really enjoy the balaced flavor of this... nice sweetness with a light hop grassiness.


 Cornfield (4972), Oak Forest, Illinois, USA
3.1 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/103/56/103/513/20
Apr 3, 2007  
No way is this a "Pale Lager" as listed. Golden with a slender white head, it has a clean sweet malt aroma with a light grassy/floral bitterness. Nice level of carbonation. The flavor is a sweet pale malt with a balancing herbal/grassy bitterness. Good crisp finish. I checked Church Brew Works’ website and it lists only water, malt, hops, and yeast in its ingredients. Despite the apparent hoppiness, the IBUs are listed at 18. If not a "German Style Pilsner" as proclaimed on the label, this should minimally be categorized as a "Premium Lager."

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 stegosaurus (1882), Levittown, Pennsylvania, USA
2.8 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
5/103/56/102/512/20
Apr 1, 2007  
Bottle sampled. Pours Golden with a white head. Aroma of pale malts, fruit, and hops. The flavor is slightly sweet, fruit, finishes bitter, with a thin watery body.



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