Bard's Gold
This Golden Sorghum Lager will appeal to beer drinkers who prefer the lighter taste of lagers produced by the major brewers, such as Anheuser-Busch, Coors, Miller, and Heineken. This ale has a light crisp taste to meet the thirst quenching requirements of the lager style while still having enough body to interest the ale drinker during the spring and summer seasons. This beer has low bitterness and a subtle but pleasant hop aroma that will gently caress the senses.
2.2
327 reviews
Minneapolis, United States
Community reviews
Didn’t know what to expect. Not bad. Falls in the light lager category. It is a very mild beer with a dampened grain flavor and a light mouthfeel, soft carbonation and slightly sweet. There is an equally moderate bittering in the finish. Lawnmower beer.
Golden with a decent head. Smells like a lager and tastes like most lagers other than there is a sweetness that doesn’t really go well with it. Not horrible but not something I will be buying again.
Drink very cold. This has a wonderful crisp taste and mouth feel. Nice and light. Great for a thirst quencher. I am normally a heavy stout or porter drinker and I loved this one.
Aroma is a basic graininess and light sulphur. Taste is bland with light sweetness, honey and clove. Light funkiness on tip. Appearance is a somewhat hazy yellow body with a than pearl head that retain a fairly poorly.
Clear, pale gold pour with a small, white head. The aroma has very faint hops. It has a light, crisp body with lively carbonation. The taste is mildly sweet with a quick, refreshing finish.
Bottle from Harvest Market to fill the mix a six I was putting together.
Fairly clear light golden head with a tightly bubbled small white head that dissipates rather quickly. Aromas of sour apple and light sugar. Little to no hop aroma. The flavor is sweet with a bit of a tart fruit thing going on with bit of pomme fruit and light sugar. Light, crisp, bubbly. Not really what I would call beer, but it didn’t really suck either.
355 ml bottle. Pours a clear amber with a small, short lived, off-white head. Sweet aroma of malt and caramel. Sweet citrus flavour with caramel and an apple cider finish. Light body with a watery texture and soft carbonation.
Well, now I know to stay away from gluten free. This tastes like seltzer with beer flavoring.
"meh. not a sorghum fan, but wheni saw this was flying bison beer, had to give it a fair shake. i’ll stick to the gluten. Fake, sweetish smell and taste. Slightly refreshing, but with zero complexity or other interesting qualities."
bottle @ Edgewood Wine-Spirits / Edgewood KY --- Hazy medium amber with a noisy white head that drops abruptly to the rim, no lace. Taste is a strong sense of effervescense with a little malt thrown. It moves swiftly through the palate, then fades so quickly that it doesn’t seem exactly like a beer. Noy much going for it.
Jaune pale, mais plus opaque que les lagers. L’arôme et le goût resemble de soda gingembre. Léger et presque pas d’amertume. Inoffensif, mais pas vraiment une bière, selon moi.
Pours a clear gold with a medium white head. You can tell this is a specialty beer as it has a special aroma of cheese and almost musty or moldy. Light to medium sweet. Light body with a somewhat sticky (but mostly) thin texture and a slight sweet finish.
A GF beer that doesn’t suck. But that’s not saying much. Way too much carbonation here & no head to speak of, bad signs. It has a certain musky, flat taste. Drink this extremely cold: if it sits out too much and starts to warm, look out! If you are thirsty, and it’s really hot, and you must have a GF beer, this will work. A heavier hit of hops might have balanced out some of the cloying sweetness underneath this brew.
I had mistaken this for something entirely different. Oh well, let us try it anyway. Pours gold with a fizzy and very brief head reminiscent of soda pop. Not promising. Smells like beer, a bit of a hops note to it, which raises my hopes. Taste is... not bad. A bit overly sweet, a bit of hops presence, but it is quickly overpowered. I think if it was hit with a huge amount of hops, it would excel, but as it stands, it’s just another lager, really.
Pours a clear dull gold. No head or lacing. Aromas are barely distinguishable. Has a lager-like mouthfeel with little to no taste besides sour malts. If all you can drink is gluten free beer, this will suffice. But it’s really quite bad.
Drank out of a bottle in a random airport somewhere around the world. I really had no problem with the beer, it had a decent nutty flavour with a good mouthfeel. This is one of those beers that could really fall off a cliff in terms of quality but in fact is quite decent and drinkable by any measure.
Had no idea what to expect. I was looking for a gluten-free beer for my retail shop. So far, any gluten free product I’ve sampled (all in the world of breads) rates somewhere between poor and awful, so I was quite surprised by this beer. It’s certainly nothing to write home about, but it’s decent. Slightly better than some of the popular comercial beers... Budweiser springs to mind.
Has the appearance of sparkling apple juice, including the lack of head. The flavor is fairly flat, but certainly not offensive. There is a vegetal quality to it, but this is not unpleasant, just unusual. This beer certainly doesn’t leave me craving another, but then neither do most of the popular commercial beers. Could use a bit more hop.
Foamy, carbonated, golden pour. Big head that goes fast. Aroma is grain, and somewhat malt like. Flavor is light, mildly grainy, thin. Even in a world of mediocre GF beers, this one is unimpressive.
This actually looks like a lager. It looks very light bodied, tons of carbonation in this sucker, with a light gold color and a very airy, bubbly off-white head. It looks very clear and has a nice color, thanks, I’m sure, to the sorghum. The aroma is of a lager, lightly sweet with maybe a hint of sorghum – not much else. The flavor is a little musky. It has an almost muted palate. There’s not much to it, other than, well – it’s like a lager with a little sorghum flavor. The flavor isn’t bad. It’s just very subdued. It has a very thin, weak palate, but with some sorghum in the finish. My wife says it’s soapy and thin, with not much flavor. She also says it has a pretty color, alot of effervescence, and it was hard to taste because of its bubbly nature.
12 oz bottle good for the gluten free crowd but that is about it not very good
pours clear rich gold with a small quickly fading white head. no distinct aroma, just a faint bread. Tastes crisp with a little sweetness. slightly sweet finish. no real hop presence.
Bottle labeled "Bard’s Gold" with the slogan "Discuss it over a Bard’s." It looks like most of the raters think there is not much to discuss. This is a sorghum brew from upstate New York (not California). Dense, reddish-brown pour. A slightly funky aroma of yeast and tangy, floral hops. It is fairly thin, but flavorful enough - citrusy sourness dominates, along with a little allspice, coriander, and sorghum. Pretty good.
Poured golden yellow with a thin white head that disappeared immediately. Fruity aromas, sweet flavors with some bitterness. Not sure who thought this was a good idea. Ugh...
Bleh! Like a horrible champagne mixed with grape juice. Just poor quality and very very dry.
pours a clear golden color with a small white head that dissipates quickly. the aroma is husky and the taste is where this beer goes south fast. maybe its because i have never had a gluten free beer so i guess i could be biased but this beer is not good. the taste is syrupy. i would not recommend.
Pours a crisp clear golden yellow. No head at all. Aroma of freshly mowed grass. Comes close to malt flavor but a bit cidery. Not much flavor at all. Very thin mouthfeel. Finishes clean and slightly bitter. This is the best of the gluten free beers I've had.
The appearance of this beer is a deep golden color with a very, very small white head, and the aroma is really sweet with some yeast scents. The taste is quite sour and a touch of sweetness, but the palate is really unpleasant due to the light body, thin and slick texture, soft carbonation, and a really, really sour and off-putting finish.
12oz bottle. Bottled 6/19/2013. Clear golden color, with a minimal white head. Apricot, peach flavor up front, with an olive aftertaste. Seeing as how the description compared this to macro-lagers, this is surprising. Lighter body. Sharper, stronger carbonation, kind of biting. Moderate bitter taste, lightly tart. Not very enjoyable nor easy-drinking. On the upside, the more I drink of it, the less offensive it becomes, the more I get used to the whole thing. There is a general cidery quality to the texture, though, not as full bodied as most beers.
Bottle. Gold pour. Aroma of faint fruits or floral. Taste is slightly sweet. Mouth feel is smooth.
Stolen from roommate: Pours super pale with almost no head. Aroma is sugar and weird sorghum funk. Taste is a light gluten free taste, but lacks some of the off-tastes that other celiac-friendly beers have. Could be worse.