Crouch Vale Brewers Gold

Brewed by Crouch Vale
Style: Golden Ale/Blond Ale
South Woodham Ferrers, England

Cask at Wenlock Arms, London This beer was outstanding. Golden in colour with a distinctive hoppy nose that has lots of citrus fruits. Drinks really well and at 4% you can have a few without falling over. The kind of beer you want to just taste and taste. Finish is hoppy and lasting.

Cask Stillage at the Queen Elizabeth Hall, Oldham 23/03/2002 Golden coloured pale and very fruity. Bitter hop finish.

Cask@HBF2006
Pale yellow, not much head. Flowery hoppy nose. Lemony, even citric, flowery hoppy flavor. Not very malty. Reasonably hoppy, lemony aftertaste. Expected more but more or less "just another casked ale".

a sim rate: (Cask at Battersea Beer Festival) Quite sweet with definite honey in flavour. Sweet citric aroma. Hoppy and quite floral.

Cask @ The Wenlock Arms, London.
Pours handsomely golden with a small, frothy white film head on top. Aroma is softly hoppy with fruitiness and an underlying crispness to it. Fine carbonation, just perfect for the style. Flavour is elegantly composed, rather dry, fine hoppiness and that underlying crispness again. Very good for a 4 % ABV.

Considering the style, Scores ranging from 1 to 5, 5 being the most intense
Appearance:
Body:   Clear(1)->Murky(5) : 3     Pale Yellow(1)->Dark brown(5) : 1     Still(1)->Sparkling(5) : 2
Head:   None(1)->Large(5) : 3   White(1)->Tan(5) : 1   Lasting: 3   Lacing : 3
Aroma:
Intensity : 4  
Yeast : 2   Bread : 2   Apple : XX   Tropical Fruits : XX   Soap : XX   DMS : XX   Diacetyl : XX Sulfur : XX  
Malt : 3   Biscuity : XX   Hay : 3   Toasty : XX   Caramel : XX   Nuts : XX   Honey : 1   Cereals : 2   Grainy : 3
Hops : 3   Noble(1)->American(5) : 1   Leafy : XX   Spicy : XX   Floral : 3   Lemon/Lime : 3   Grapefruit : XX   Orange : XX   Herbal : 2   Grassy : XX   Pine/Spruce/Resin : 1  
Notes :   Peach/Apricot : XX   Earth : XX   Mint : XX   Butterscotch : XX   Smoke : XX
Flavor:
Initial Flavor : Dry(1)->Sweet(5) : 3   Finish Dry(1)->Sweet(5) : 2   Sourness : XX   Bitterness : 3   Complex : XX   Length : XX
Palate:
Light(1)->Full(5) : 2   Flat(1)->Fizzy(5) : 2   Clean : XX   Sharp : 2   Watery : XX   Oily : XX   Chalk : XX   Astringent : XX   Alcohol : XX   Mineral : 2   Oxidation : XX   Metallic : XX

Comments: Very citrusy, limey and floral, tart and bitter cask ale of high quality.

Aroma is citrus and grassy and peachy and a bit of pale malts giving it a wee kick of sweetness. Taste is similarly complex hoppy, bitter and dry as hell, totally outstanding beer and no suprise to me at all that its in top beer in britian at the moment. REATE: Cask in Blackfriars: Awsome super drinkable, just amazing stuff. Iv never drank 6 1/2 pints as quick as what i did this. RERATE: Well iv had soo much and its just one of the best most drinkable beers ion the world. up from 4.6-5.

Cask at the Kingston Arms, Cambridge: Pours a pale clear golden with a thin, wispy white head. Aroma has some semi-sweet, lightly toasted caramel notes and floral hoppiness. Body starts full and flavorful with a nice balance of grassy, earthy hops and sweet malt. A very smooth, refreshing and drinkable ale.