Mac's Gold
A light-coloured lager conditioned over 30 days. It has a good head, balanced sweet/bitter palate and a clean aftertaste. Brewed for the connoisseur, Mac’s Gold is brewed using only choice Motueka hops and quality barley. The bottom fermentation process of brewing by using a gravity system produces a naturally-brewed, all malt lager that contains no added chemicals, preservatives or colouring.
2.3
157 reviews
Auckland, New Zealand
Community reviews
Have drunk a lot of this but its been a while & as expected this poured yellow gold with a light malt aroma the taste is crisp mildly bitter easy to drink sweet & pretty flavourless
På fat på pub i Fulham distriktet. Lys og kjedelig uten særpreg med alt for lite kullsyre. Flat!
Flat golden coloured beer with a small white head. Aroma of sweet malts. Flavour is watery, a bit acidic and a sweet malty aftertaste. (Bottle 33cl)
Ins Glas ergießt sich ein goldgelbes Bier mit geringer Schaumkrone. Geruch leicht malzig, getreidig, leicht süß. Geschmack wässrig, leicht malzig getreidig, minimal herb.
Corn syrup and corn kernel and toasted grain nose. Medium-light body, syrupy texture, twangy, sweet and minimally bitter with grating carbonation. A basic lager with little hop intrigue and a very basic malt character. You see this all over New Zealand. Mac’s pubs are in most major towns and the most remote convenience stores usually carry this and Monteiths. So far nothing from Mac’s has come close to remarkable.
The head is ok, the body gold. It smells malty, less hoppy, mild. The taste is watery, bit malty, mild.
Golden pilsner without head and soft carbonation.
Common beer without anything to say. Ligthly malted taste with some sweet.
Not interesting.
Spotted this solitary little fellow on the shelf at Drinkers Paradise, Kentish Town and as I saw it’d had such a long journey from NZ I felt I had to try it. Got the impression this is one of those beers NZ beer snobs look down on but it’s actually not that bad. Quite a punchy taste and a notable caramel sweetness. Drinkable.
Used to be my go to beer because I thought it tasted better than all the other lamestream slosh. I’ve just had one at dinner and I’ve only just realised how sweet this beer is. That aside, I still think it (slightly) better than the others.
Bottle. This is a decent pale lager that is fun to drink and easy to have another of.
yeah nah. a bit of straw, a bit of malt, a lot of water. flavourless junk. plenty of worse mainstream lagers in nz i suppose, and this stuff is always refreshing in the same way cordial is, but...
had at some weird burger place in Dublin city centre .. . pale gold .. medium head .. . light mouth .. . hay mostly, maybe some sheep wool .. . rather boring but nothing off putting .. . . a party? ..like a cool kids party??
Gul i färgen med vitt skum. Sur ton rakt igenom, söt och fruktig maltdoft och smak. Honungssötma. Tunn i karaktären men den syrliga tonen förstör allt.
Bottled: Sourly, grainy aroma. Golden color, white head. Flavor is light sourly, light grainy, but more or less quite tasteless. Refreshing but not more.
Keg at shed 22 Brewbar, Wellington 7/1/13
Clear, burnished gold with high carbonation, swetbiscuit malt and honey nose. Similar tastes, very low on flavour.
Don’t mind a Macs gold when there is no time to think about the beverage you are drinking eg watching the rugby. 1st couple taste of beer but quickly begin to taste a lot like water.
Bottle. Appearance: Golden yellow, small snow white head. Aroma: Grassy, malty, a tiny bit fruity, cardboard. Flavour: Sweet, wet cardboard and grass, malty with a sweet grassy finish.
Pale gold pour, minimal head. Funky, biscuity, taste is malty with not much going on, fades very quickly leaving a little bitterness. Easy drinking but nothing really interesting about it
330 ml bottle. Pours yellow woth medium head. Aroma is cheesy yeast with a small amount of citrus hop. Tastes yeasty with small hoppy taste. Average mainstream lager
Poured out of the bottle pale-ish gold with off white head. Very little carbonation, medium body with malt flavour hits you from the start but fades too fast, leaving a bitter hop aftertaste. I don’t get any citrus.
I would buy again.
20/VI/2012 - 33cl bottle @ home - BB: 26/VI/12 (2012-640) Thanks to Thomas and Annelies for the bottle!
Clear gold to light orange beer, nice off-white head, unstable, non adhesive. Aroma: lots of grains, malts, barnyard, hint of sweetness, some green herbs. MF: ok carbon, light to medium body. Taste: little sour in the start, lemony, some grains, nice refreshing bitterness. Aftertaste: little sweet, malty, nice bitter hoppy ending. Pretty decent lager!
19th December 2009
Clear pale gold beer. Short lived white head. Light palate a little dry. Very light malt with just a whisper of hop. Competent but bog standard lager. Easy drinking.
24/5/2012. Pale golden colour with very thin head that quickly reduced. Low to moderate carbonation. Initial malt aroma. Mid range flavour with slight bitterness on palate. Smooth and clean on mouth. Tasted 3/2/2014. Draught at "The Pub ’n’ Grub", Taupo, NZ. Poured a clear golden colour with a thin white foamy head that retained poorly and laced poorly. Carbonation low with large bubbles. Aroma of malt with no hops. Taste a bit tangy then sour malt and no bitterness - malt dominates. Light body. Malt dominated. Not that good.
At Tap East. clear pale gold lasting white head. Bit of staleness on aroma. Frankly this isnt very good. Stale flavour. Ugh. Nasty
Rip-top 330ml bottle from Bierpost, as golden as its name, with a clingy white head and a malty aroma with light touches of honey and biscuit. Smooth lightly biscuity body, with caramel in the mid-body, a little bitterness and a sweet yet lightly dry finish. A bit dull, but inoffensive. Would be easy drinking if it was less gassy!
Nice golden colour. Quite strong sparkling. taste has nothing at the beginning, slight malty at the end.
The beer in the glass is crystal clear and golden yellow. The head is fine pored and disappears quickly. It smells malty-sweet, slightly metallic and hoppy-bitter. Starts malty and sour, seems somewhat artificial. Some metallic bitterhops are noticeable. The finish is chemically, sweet, slightly metallic, nearly no hop aroma!
A beer for drinking. Not overly carbonated and quite soft on the palate. Taste however is not too challenging so very easy to knock them back in quick succession.
Bottle from Mane Liquor. Golden pour with a small white head. Diminishes quickly. Light honey and grass on the nose. Faint honey malts with a touch of pine in the taste. Not much going on here
Bottle. Golden, small to average and fully diminishing head. Light to moderate malty and sweetish aroma, some caramel and light citrus hoppyness. Light, malty and sweetish flavor, some caramel, faint hoppyness. Finish is short to average, malty and sweetish, some caramel and faint citrus hoppyness. Quite thin-bodied and sweetish lager - faint hoppyness.