Woodfordes Great Eastern

Brewed by Woodfordes
Style: Golden Ale/Blond Ale
Broadland Brewery
Woodbastwick, England

Cask (Cambridge Blue, Cambridge)
Looks like your typical golden. Aroma not far off expectation too, crisp hops. OK light malty base, with more tangy hops. Good example of a simple golden.

Bottle. Hazy gold, flat. Faint sweet honey and caramel aroma. taste is thin, watery and disappointing. Wanted a bit of citrus. A little malt and less dryness. Pity.

Bright yellow gold, with a multitude of yeasty flkes swirling around, and an off-white head, sweet pale malt, with a hint of fruitiness, wet straw note, graininess accent in the aroma folow through on a light-bodied palate with an earthy smooth pale malt character, with a subtle citrus flowery hops note with a faint piney accent, leading towards a watery and faint hops bittering finish. Quite a boaring beer, i was expecting much more from this beer, at 11$ a bottle.

Cask, gravity flow @ the Fur & feather Inn, Woodbastwick, Norfolk.
Summery orange gold with a very light haze to it and still in the glass. Head was there, then it wasn’t. Managed some minor lace-work though for extra credit. Aroma of cantaloupe, mango and vine-clippings lasted just on one whiff but was pleasant enough and a little spicy. Maris otter, ofcourse, in the mouth gives a nice clean malty base to some light, sweet and tangy citrus and mango flavours which culminate in the back to greet a good sharp, bitter swallow. Body is very light and it’s a little flat on the tongue. Finish is fresh, fruity, but very short. It’s sweetish, but has just enough balance to make it sessionable. A decent quaffer but not up there with the usual cream of Woodforde’s. One for a re-rate I suspect.

Really pale sickly ale with floaties, a few bubbles of foam, and no carbonation. Light caramel malt, with notes of honey and dandelion, and catnip hops. In mouth, a hoppy water, with little malt to sustain, not bad, just not worth 11 clams! Bieropholie private imports.

Aroma:light citrus-orange nose.... Appearance:very clear gold,small head.... Flavor:watery,light citrus flavor....

Cask Handpump at the Penny Black, Northwich (JDW) 25/04/2005 Golden coloured with hoppy and sour fruit aromas. Slightly dry malt finish.

A light yellow, orange beer with a weak white head. The nose is light and citrusy with a hint of hop. The taste is light, again citrusy and hoppy. The aftertaste is also light and hoppy.