Columbus Brewing Golden Ale

Brewed by Columbus Brewing Company
Style: Golden Ale/Blond Ale
Columbus, Ohio USA

Bottle: Rating this while my head is a little stuffed up! Clear deep gold w/ a lasting white head. That’s about where my admiration stops!!!!! All I could smell was diacety, diacetyl, and more diacetyl. I have a head cold and this was still offensive!!!!!!! Very little redeeming qualities with regards to flavor or aroma. Mouthfeel was appropriately smooth for the amount of diacetyl in this beer. Lighter but not watery body, medium carbonation. Did I mention that this beer is loaded with diacetyl?!!!!! Drain pour all the way....At least this 6er. I could not even get through a single beer. I might even try to take it back it’s so bad. I’ll re rate if I get a better sample!!!! 2 more bottles...same six pack!!!! No Diacetyl in these. First 2 were offensively loaded with it. These next 2 were tomatoey and lactic!!!!! What a treat!!!! I just can't wait to see what surprises the last 2 bottles hold!!!!1

Columbus Brewing’s beers have recently reappeared on the shelves in NE Ohio, so i took the opportunity to try them all again. This is a nice mellow golden ale, sweet with lemon edges; a mostly dry and mildly hopped finish. Easy to drink and good looking too.

Very weak aroma. Gold. Tart, lightly sweet with mild citrus. Nice medium hopping -- a fair session brew. Finishes dry and bitter with a silky mouthfeel. Some bread/yeasty qualities in the finish.

Originally put the wrong description. This golden ale is very pale with no head to speak of. Mild hop aroma is rosy. Good carbonation and body. Leaves a light crisp taste with mild bitterness that lingers at the end. One of the better light ales at CBC.

Hazey golden color with a huge white head. I poured about an inch of beer in my glass and it fill the rest of the way with foam. Grapefruit aroma. Flavor of bread and citrus.

bee pollen golden with a clean white collar. damp hay barn smell, or that raw spilt grain smell i associate with train tracks by grain elevators, a bit of bread dough and lightly pickled cucumber. i guess this is what they call "firm bodied": stiff as wheat stubble, brisk with carbonation and clean with parchment dry hops. grapefruit bitterness with very little other fruity aspects, though warming was somewhat remedial in that respect and yielded some grapefruit peel. not my favorite style, but i bravely saw it through with a belch and a smile.

This beer poured a very light golden color and formed a nice white head that didn't hold and left trace amount of lace. Slightly cloudy with a small amount of carbonation present. The aroma was of hops and citrus. The flavor was of hops and citrus, but a bit bitter, which I usually don't expect in this style. It had a light finish. Not a bad beer, but not one of this brewers better ones

Cloudy yellow color, plenty of head. There’s something off about the aroma, and I don’t feel like inhaling it repeatedly to describe it accurately. Has the grapefruit/lemon taste that I’d normally associate with an IPA, but without any sort of hop bitterness at all. Not quite a drain pour, but close.