Crouch Vale Brewers Gold
Cask: Regular; Bottle: Filtered
Champion Best Bitter at the Great British Beer Festival 2003, this is a pale, refreshing and hoppy beer with gorgeous aromas of tropical fruits. Now multi-award winning!
Supreme Champion Beer of Britain at the Great British Beer Festival 2005 and 2006.
Champion Best Bitter at the Great British Beer Festival 2003, this is a pale, refreshing and hoppy beer with gorgeous aromas of tropical fruits. Now multi-award winning!
Supreme Champion Beer of Britain at the Great British Beer Festival 2005 and 2006.
3.5
274 reviews
South Woodham Ferrers, England
Community reviews
Decent body for a light ale, better than most for the style. Nothing off, no complaints, just nothing special.
Cask @ The Salopian. Pours clear amber, thin off white head. Taste smooth with good fruity moments, peach apricot they all get a look-in. Very good and flavoursome for a golden ale.
Super pachnace zlociste piwko z minimalna pianka, zlota i mglista barwa. Cudowny zapach passiflory. W smaku ananasy, landrynki, nieco wanilli iraz miodu akacjowego, wszystko wzbogacone subtelna goryczka w tle. Przyjemne delikatne ale zarazem wyraziste. Polecam
On cask @ The Snowdrop, Lewes. Nice smooth floral beginning. Hints of grain, nice floralness with a smooth aftertaste. Nice.
500 ml. bottle. Pours a mostly clear pale gold with a nice white head. Aroma of citrus and malt. Taste is citrus, tropical, malt, and floral. Would be a nice summer beer.
Small white head. Slightly hazy yellow body. Floral minty toffee aroma with sugary pine needle notes. Dry-sweet spicy peas and flowers taste with toffee notes. Mid-bodied. Mild, soft, flat mouthfeel. Dryish orangey peas aftertaste with mealy floral notes. Odd, and in parts it’s great. Grew on me as I drank. Surprisingly Lithuanian. (0.568l cask, at Charlie’s Bar, Copenhagen.)
Cask at CBC SMA, London. It pours a clean golden color with small white head. Aroma is grains and starch with light biscuit. Taste is crisp and medium sweet biscuity with grains and traw. Light bodied with a soft carbonation. Overall, meh
Very little on the nose discernible. Very clear, almost a washed out look to the beer. Not too bitter, a beer to enjoy that could quite easily be quaffable.
500ml bottle from Beers of Europe. Pours clear gold with a thick white head. High carbonation. Aromas of butterscotch and lemon. Taste is lemon, astringent malt. Thin finish. Disappointing. Probably better on cask, to be fair.
Cask at Roebuck, Leek. Pours pale gold with white head. Some citrus, light fruit, bit of biscuit. Decent gold.
Cask at The Roebuck, Leek (Titanic) A clear golden colour with a thin white head. Aroma is fruity of grape, lemon zest, sweet honey and some spicy hops. Taste of grape, slight melon, lemon, maybe some orange, honey, subtle biscuit, caramel and spicy, floral hops. Light bodied and flat to soft carbonation. A bittersweet, honeyed, floral hop finish. Really surprised by this, complex for a golden ale. Little sweet and flat but nice.
Gravity at Bardfest 2015. Golden with a white head. Nice strong lemon citrus aroma. The taste is sweet and lemony. some bready notes in the finish. Nice summer drinking.
If you favour a beer with lemon/pineapple scent, this is for you. Pale gold body. Thin head that laces well. Neutral at first but sharper and tarter as you sip. The back taste is fuller than the fore. Thin on the palate and meant for summer. And probably a hotter one if served chilled. Not to be repeated.
Bottle from Ales By Mail; golden amber pour with a creamy white head, light lemon aroma, taste has citrus, a bit of diacetyl, some bready malts, I was expecting more from this because of Glens review, perhaps I need to try it in cask.
vague lemon aroma, pale gold body with thin white head, tastes just like tap water, absolutely the most blandest boring beer ive ever tried.
Typical English golden ale with stable, moussy, irregular, snow white head over a very slightly hazy (but cloudy with deposit), ochre blonde beer with very subtle olive green hue. Unusual and, frankly, not too inviting aroma of biscuit and toasted bread, green olives, cervil soup, melting rubber, grass, buttermilk, crushed weeds, caramelized ’witloof’, candied apricot, bread dough, raw Brussels sprouts, earth, old cake. Taste begins rather neutral (as usual in this style), some subdued fruitiness (cucumber, unripe berries), medium carbonation, grainy sourishness with even a slightly drying effect, somewhat yeasty and starchy but not overly so, rather thin body as expected, mineral water, toasted maltiness appearing quickly but not as much as in many darker coloured beers, bready, all restraining from actual sweetness and managing to do that very well; in the finish, a relieving, leafy and earthy, ’low’ hop bitterness appears, lasting quite long, with a bready, in fact almost sourdough-like graininess piercing through it all; this mild but persistent hop bitterness (fortunately) stays with you as the last impression, but remains too subtle to save the day. I may have stumbled upon an old bottle - clearly this style is intended to be consumed fresh - but I must say, I expected more from this, this is actually quite unbalanced, boring and strange in a not very appealing kind of way... Even in this style, I find this one of the lesser exampes I tasted so far.
Bottle a golden yellow colored beer with a white head aroma malts citrus and hops flavor malts fruits some citrus and hops
Strong lemony citrusy aroma. Clear and like liquid gold. Can see why it got its name.
Bottle at home from ales by mail
clear pale golden blonde with white lacing. Clean with slight butterscotch diacetyl on nose. Medium body, biscuity malt, touch of bitterness, clean and easy drinking
Cask at the Grey Horse. Pours golden, nose is full of toffee, taste is sweet, chewy, light fruit.
Sample at Great British Beer Festival 2014. Clear pale golden beer, small head. Malty caramel aroma, toffee, citrus, grapes, syrup, peach notes. Hoppy citrus flavor, pepper, grass, floral notes, raisins, some caramel.
Bottle. Golden colour with a white head. Aroma is wort, toffee, malt. Flavour is wort, butterscotsch, malt, hop, pine. Boring beer.
Bottle. Two finger ivory head, some lace. Clear pale gold. Multiple fruits on aroma. Grassy, hoppy taste. Very refreshing.
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Bottle 500 ml from PS. Pale golden beer, short head. Fruity aromas, citrus, lemon, red berries with to the taste, soft tones of toffy, spices, tropical fruits and white pepper. Average bitterness and dry finish.
Cask at the Elm Tree, Cambridge. Clear gold, with a gentle loose white head. Honey, toast and gooseberry/kiwi aroma. Sweet, juicy, clean taste. A bit of sour-bitterness in the finish and aftertaste. It’s a well-made golden beer but not the best I’ve had in this style.
Cask - Biscuit malts and a light fruitiness. Pale gold with a nice white head. Light malts with an earthy hoppiness. I don’t get the tropical fruits at all.
Sahtinen ja hiivainen synttäri-illan olut. Ei minkään tekijäks. Aromia on kuitenkin jonkin verran.
The M&S one. Light haze. Straw colour. Thin, lasting, white head. Fusty lemon. Grainy malt. Light, heather honey. Taste has some sweetness at first. Grainy dry. Light bitter. Light, oily palate. Finish is light sweet. Light dry. Tasty.
Bottle from m&s as their own label. Pale golden beer with medium head. Aroma of tropical fruits and malts. Taste is honey, light malts, hoppy fruit and floral. Oily mouthfeel. Good and very easy to drink.
Aroma: honey, light caramel malts. Appearance: clear gold, medium white frothy head. Taste: mild sweet. Palate: very fruity, light sweets continue, very light bitters coming up, making it very refreshing Overall: incredibly nice Golden Ale, very smooth, nicely sweet, extremely drinkable. Pint at The Dove Pub, London Fields.