Gordon Biersch Premium Light

Brewed by Gordon Biersch Brewing Company
Style: Pale Lager
Palo Alto, California USA

The body’s a light gold in color and it had a small fizzy head until seconds after the pour. The aroma is bready with some corn and a very faint floral hopping. Kinda sorta watery. Dead flavoring, just a bit of corn bread sweetness and a tinny bitterness. Still, better than the typical BMC.

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Draft sampler in Columbus. Clear amber color with a small white head. Light sweet aroma. Light body. Light flavor with small bitter finish. Slightly better then moist air.

2005 GCBC. Extremely pale yellow with a medium white head. Light malt and some paper and straw.

Draft at the Las Vegas brewpub. New offering in lieu of their better Pilsner. This has a bright yellowish color with a nice foamy head that stays with the beer. There’s little aroma. Grainy taste.

On tap at the Atlanta site. almost clear. good lacing. harmless. little flavor. no off flavor.

Sample (thank goodness) at the brewpub. Clear pale golden color with a thin white head that disappears rapidly. Lacing is not present. Faint floral hops aroma. Light-bodied and pretty much flavorless. There is a tiny bit of grain and hops but that is it. The finish is short which is good because the aftertaste is somehow unpleasantly sweet-n-sour. I won’t be bothering with this again.

(12 oz bottle, Bottled On 18-Sep-05: BevMo in La Jolla, CA) Yeah, a little old, but does a few months really matter with this beer? I’ve chilled it down to the point where ice crystals are beginning to form, but despite numbing my tongue, this beer still tastes unpleasant. Sweet honey and corn husks to start, but strong cardboard and wood dominating the finish. I don’t want to find out what this will taste like when the beer warms up a bit, so I’ll get this rating over with as quickly as possible. Sweet honey and soggy paper in the nose. Light bodied with average carbonation, but the cardboard gives this beer a stale mouthfeel. Medium-straw in color and slightly cloudy in appearance. Smallish, white head could be smaller than usual because I’ve chilled this thing down so much. But it fades to a small ring and leaves no lacing on the glass. I bought a sixer of this on mega-sale expecting to send some out as throwaway bonus beers to the ratings whores, but that wouldn’t be very nice of me. So not only is this a drain pour, it’s SIX drain pours! Probably better on tap, not that I plan to find out.

Bottle: Pale straw, large fluffy white head, decent lacing, lively carbonation.   Pale malt nose, otherwise fairly non-descript.   Slightly sweetned grassy malts to start.   Tiz actually fairly clean, and even a bit thick.   Seems partially like a wheat ale.   Very slight touch of cereal and/or adjuncts at the finish, remaining slightly sweet.   Body and mouthfeel are moderate.   Better than expected.