Legend Golden Ale

Brewed by Legend Brewing Company
Style: India Pale Ale (IPA)
Richmond, Virginia USA

on tap-pours a lot of creamy white head with lacing and gold color. Aroma is crisp, grain, light hops. Taste is crisp, grain, secondary flat hops bite. Mild/OK carbonation.

Sampled on 7/15/06 at the RBSG ’06 Grand Tasting: Pours a clear golden with a thin, nicely-lacing coating of white head. Slightly floral piny hoppy and toasty caramel malty aroma. Body starts with some mild toasty malty sweetness drying out some with a more bitter and crisp hop presence toward a warming finish. A great beer if you’re expecting a golden, but an average beer if you’re expecting an IPA.

Bottle. This had a mild hop character, but wheat grass undertones. It had the same aftertaste as some healthy smoothies from "Juice it Up."

Bottle; original rating below. Wanted to give this one another try before I left Virginia because I don’t usually rate a Legend beer this low. Pours a clear, coppery gold color with a medium to large white head. Aroma was better than I remembered; citrus, grass and flowers. Flavor was better too; buttery, biscuit backbone. Hop finish wasn’t too flavorful. Overall it was better than I remembered, but still not great. Boosted from 2.5 to 3.1 (Pours clear gold, some orange in it. Aroma of grassy hops. Taste is earthy, grassy hops. A little buttery, somewhat sweet malts. Just didn’t like this very much)

22oz bomber courtesy of my Secret Santa (Numenor), no date. Pours a clear golden with a light orange tinge and a two finger slightly yellowish white head. Aroma of some biscuity and buttery malts, some citrus and grassy hops. Taste is much the same with the hops a bit more floral and then nice and buttery (like Lake Louie Kiss the Lips) notes into a dry lightly bitter finish. Fairly creamy body with a carbonation that is just a tad too sharp for it. Carbonation is moderate, by the way and the body is light to medium. Pretty good, though not one of the hoppier IPAs I’ve had.

Bottle shared by sliffy at PTFC. Golden pour with some sediment and a white head. Aroma was musty...cobwebs with some grassy hops. The flavor was crisp yet funky at the same time with some light malt. This one might of been a tad infected, but even still, with a thin body just wasn’t too inticing of an IPA.

Bottle: Hazy golden color with a white head. Aroma, musty, grassy hops. Flavor, stale grassy hops, some light malts. Might not have been the best bottle of this stuff. My notes were slightly more vulgar in their description.

Sampled at RBSG 2006- Grand Tasting. Pours a light gold with a white head. Seems very rich for a lighter golden beer. Good hop profile is present here. Has an interesting flavor of poached pears.