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Goose Island 1800 Demolition Ale (Strong Golden) 3.55 443

Goose Island 1800 Demolition Ale (Strong Golden)

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90
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4433.56/5.03.55/5.0Winter6.7%76Trappist glass, Tulip, Tumbler
Commercial Description:
Brewed to honor the brave souls who kept our brew pub open in the early 90’s while wrecking balls tore down the mall around us. Dry and smooth, with a grassy, citrus aroma and a honey malt middle. Brew House notes Style: Belgian Style Golden Ale Alcohol by Volume: 6.7% IBU’s: 45 Hops: Saaz, Chinook Malt: Pilzen Cellarman’s Notes. Demolition will remain fresh 180 days from the bottled on date. Unfiltered, so a light chill haze should be expected. Some yeast may settle in the bottom of the bottle, decant gently.
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 sneagrams3 (1762), St. Louis, Missouri, USA
3.3 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
5/103/57/103/515/20
Jan 29, 2006  
Tap from the Clyburn Goose Island Brewery. Ah...samplers! This was my first of eight from this joint. Clear and golden. White head. Grainy nose. Sweet light malt flavor. Crisp with a sweet/dry hop finish. Spicy. Flavors bounce from caramel to pine. Full yet crisp, and smooth. Finish is long and sticky. Wel done!


 drainey (231), Chicago, Illinois, USA
3.6 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/104/57/104/515/20
Jan 24, 2006  
Golden body with a small with head. Fruitly citrus aroma with some yeast. Nice flavor of grasses and citrus, with some hops, but not nearly as hoppy as advertised. Nice crisp finish. A good beer.


 zombywoof (362), Shawnee, Kansas, USA
3.8 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/104/58/104/515/20
Jan 23, 2006    Updated: Nov 13, 2007
An almost peach(?) like aroma mixed with honey notes. It’s a subdued balanced Belgian with hops, citrus and spice notes. Gets better as it warms and oxidates. Nice smooth finish..


 Crit (2409), New Westminster, British Columbia, Canada
4 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/104/58/104/516/20
Jan 16, 2006  
Hazy golden amber, lasting beige head.Malt whisky nose.Chewy sweet malt profile,light citrus, medium lasting bitterness, light alcohol heat


 CMUBEERMAN (415), Madison, Wisconsin, USA
3.6 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/104/57/104/514/20
Jan 11, 2006  
Shared some of this with my buddy. This isn’t very hoppy and doesn’t tasted very belgish stong ale-ish to me. It did have a smooth and sweet mouthfeel/flavor. I didn’t mind it, but it was expensive and wasn’t to in style.


 Zeswaft (1000), Seattle, Washington, USA
3.8 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/104/57/105/516/20
Jan 9, 2006  
I remember saying that this beer kind of tasted like dirt. It was an interesting beer, not like any strong ale that I’ve ever had. I really like the texture of it. Very smooth and velvety.


 1FastSTi (2588), Glendale, Wisconsin, USA
3.3 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/105/55/103/513/20
Jan 6, 2006  
The beer pours to a deep golden honey color with an insane amount of tiny bubbles propagating up through the body in a champagne-like carbonation. A nice dense head sits atop this brew. The aroma is quite unique. One definitely gets hops in the aroma and also the Belgian yeasts. Almost comes off as peach cobbler. The flavor is also quite unique. It definitely has some hop kick to it. Floral and grassy peach cobbler comes to mind. Spicy yeasts and honey are also present. Very strange combination. I want to like it and want not to like it. Very confusing. The 5 I give on flavor is not that it’s "bad", simply that I’m torn on whether I really want to drink this. The palate is spicy, medium-light bodied, and a little chalky. Very confusing brew.


 jsquire (2123), St. Marys, Ohio, USA
3.5 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/103/57/103/516/20
Jan 3, 2006  
Deep honey gold color out of the bottle. Thin whispy slick of bubbles on the surface of the beer. Very sweet candied fruit nose. Lots of citrus (lime and orange), peach, sour apple, pine, honey, bread, with something chaulky in the finish. Decent sipping beer.



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