Gordon Biersch Golden Export

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

TAP (Kansas City location): clear light yellow pour, no head. Very mild nose, a little German funk on taste, just a touch of bitterness. Not great.

On draft at the Miami location. Pours a clear pale yellow gold with the largest ring of white head. Sweet creamed corn aroma, and that’s not even the worst part. Flavor is horrid, tastes extremely old and musty. Sickly sweet, corny, tannens. Body is medium with good carbonation. But bad beer, like a homebrew.

On tap at Gordon Biersch in Las Vegas. Pours a pale clear yellow, light white head. Hint of lemon and citrus hops, but barely. Lemony, light and crisp, not too much grain. Finishes up with a light crisp bitterness.

On tap at the brewpub. Clear gold with small white head. Light aroma is grain and malt as is the flavor. Just a dab of honey. Nice effervescence. A fairly dry beer. Not a lot going on.

This poured a bright yellow color with a white head. Aroma was mainly corn and adjuncts, a little sweet as well. Flavor was much the same, lots of corn and a bit grassy as well. Not too great.

Sampled on draft at the Virginia Beach location. Pours a pale gold color with a medium head. Fair head retention and lacing. Aroma of sweet malts and soap. Taste is grass and toasted malts. Watery and thin bodied.

Pale golden and lightly effervescent. Mild nose of pale malts with a whiff of continental hops. Mild flavor of buttered roast corn nuts. Mid-bodied, slightly chalky. So-so. ~~~~~~~~~ Draught, GB Bolingbrook, IL.