Gordon Biersch Golden Export

Brewed by Gordon Biersch Brewing Company
Style: Dortmunder/Helles
Palo Alto, California USA

Pours a muted pale gold color. Aroma is somewhat grainy. Flavor is also a little grainy. Body is watery. Seemed a little plain-jane to me.

Papjohn has this right. My third beer on tap from Gordon has developed a terrible trend. Again, beautiful beer to look at. Nice white foam, clear light amber color. Same hop as the Marzen, Swarzbier. Same aroma. No imagination. In fact, water down the Swarz, Marzen. Water down Marzen, Export Ale. This was my last Gordon Biersch beer.

Bottle: Gordon Biersch-if you have had one you have had them all. This one has the same sweet honey like start as the others, but with a lightly acidic and ever so lightly bitter dry finish.

Very pale, crystal clear out of the bottle with a quickly dissappating fizzy white head. Funky b.o./canned corn smell. Very thin with an odd mouth coating sweetness in the end. Some malt flavors come through, and I sense some lemon citrus hints. It would have been better with food. Not very interesting.

Very mild beer. Light malty aroma. Light malty sweet flavor. Head dissipates quickly. Overall a boring beer.

Ive drank this 100times. the one they brew at the brewpub is different then the one in the bottle. (different breweries) light crisp taste and color, quite malty palate and nose, with almost no hop character at all. not very close to the original style brewed in germany but a descent american attempt. just a side not, if your drinking them at the brewpub(LV) take a couple of ibuprofen before hand.

Clear golden coloured body with a super thin white head. Aroma of bitter malts, some metal scent and some slight sugars. Medium to light-bodied; Sweet malts in the taste with some metal and astringent bitterness. Aftertaste shows only a bit of the malt and some clean characteristics. Overall, a decent beer, but more tastes should be added! I was lucky enough to get this twelve ounce bottle from Haddon90 (Phil) from which he purchased from Costco in San Ramon, California. I sampled this on on 25-November-2003-Cheers Phil!

Las Vegas airpor, draught: Light malt aroma, clean. Clean malt flavors. Lightly hopped. Aromatics hint at herbal and floral. Fizzy and light in the end. Almost a nice helles, not up to Dort standards as the name implies, in total a good step up from American Standards (probably all malt).