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Leelanau Good Harbor Golden

Percentile
95
overall

bottled
common

on tap
unknown

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RatingsAverageScoreABVStyle PctlServe in
1393.74/5.03.7/5.07.5%98.1Snifter, Tulip
Commercial Description:
The traditional bière de garde was a hearty solid beer that was fit for storing to use as compensation to farmhands instead of gold. After a long day in the Leelanau sun we would rather get paid in this beer than gold. Good Harbor Golden celebrates its magnificent appeal as a stoic, solid, quiet-type ale. Because the beer spends so long in the oak it won’t be ready for the public until sometime in May.
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 emacgee (1888), Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA
4 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/103/58/103/518/20
May 8, 2009    Updated: Aug 6, 2009
Thanks a ton Sam for letting me try this again. Pours a pale hazy straw gold with a one finger frothy white head. Aroma is very dense and layered. Pineapple comes out upfront, definite funky character, yeasty, floral, mild honey in the aroma, sweet and peachy as it warms. Flavor shows earthy honey, tart pineapple juice, fruity esters, oaky tannic bite, muscadine grapes come out at some point. Palate is tart with a nice crisp acidity. Fantastic.


 durhambeer (1215), Durham, USA
4 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/104/58/104/516/20
May 7, 2009  
Oh hot damn, this is good. Light hazy golden pour with big rocky white head. Sour barrel fruit (lots of canned pineapple) and funky yeast. Good citrus, and quite tart. Refreshing and fun. Yum.


 Ungstrup (15260), Frederiksberg, Denmark
3.1 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/102/57/103/513/20
May 3, 2009  
Bottled. A hazy light golden beer with a bit of sediment floating around under a thin white head. The aroma is acidic with notes of citrus and brettanomyces. The flavor is acidic with notes of citrus and brettanomyces as well as light notes of wheat, leading to a lightly tart finish.


 zizzybalubba (376), Elizabeth City, North Carolina, USA
4 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/104/58/104/516/20
May 2, 2009  
Sampled at WBF in Raleigh. Pours a light yellow reminiscent of a witbier. Pleasant sour aroma. Balanced golden ale taste with just the right mix of sourness. Very well done.


 Pinball (2874), Allerød, Denmark
3.1 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/102/56/103/513/20
May 2, 2009  
#2 at papsø blind tasting cloudy yellow,s mall white head. aroma is citrussy, slight stable, brett. flaov r is a mix between stable, brett. also slight citrussy.


 Grovlam (3810), Copenhagen, Denmark
3.5 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/104/57/103/514/20
May 2, 2009  
#2 Bottle. [Papsoe grand American tasting] Average light fin bubbled white head that mostly lasted. Fair display of lacework. Light cloudy pale golden color. Aroma of sour fruity notes with some citrus and dry mild spicy feel. Somewhat milky feel over the palate as well as light rubber. Medium bodied with a soft carbonation and light dry pepper like burning texture. Medium acidic and sweet flavor. Lingering spicy sour finish. 7 / 4 / 7 / 3 / 14 = 3.5


 yespr (12190), Copenhagen O, Denmark
3.4 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/103/57/103/514/20
May 2, 2009  
From bottle, Papsoes blindtasting #2, courtesy of Jeppe. Pours cloudy yellow with a small white head. Mild fruity and light acetone like aroma, vague wheaty note. Citric and dry sourish flavured. Vague residual wheaty sweetness and light yeasty touch. Dry and citric brett-ish flavoured finish. Fresh and vague acetone like lasting impression.


 daknole (2960), Plantation, Florida, USA
3.5 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/103/57/103/515/20
Apr 28, 2009  
DLD tasting. Hazy yellow pour. White head. Aroma of floral hops, malty sweetness. Flavor is woody, malty a bit of sweetness with a nice hop bite at the end. Not bad.



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