Thursday, February 12, 2009

Golden Glory

My wife picked up this bottle of Golden Glory (4.5% abv) whilst at Tesco a couple of weeks ago. I originally had no intention of posting about it until I was looking it up on the Hall and Woodhouse website today. The beer itself is quite dry with a definite wheat beer like taste, but what intrigued me was the intense fruit aroma that this beer emits. I originally interpreted the aroma to be of passionfruit and thought that it must be hopped with some new whizz bang New Zealand based hop. I was wrong, this beer is actually fortified with peach extract - thats right peach extract. Now why would anybody want to do this, I don't know? I suspect that the original beer was too shit to sell so they have jazzed it up with some fruit extract to make it palatable. When the warmer months roll in I'll consider looking this beer up again but for now I'll maintain my position that fruit extracts have no place in beer.
For those interested the beer was pretty uninspiring, but I guess most of you know that already...

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2 Comments:

Blogger The Beer Nut said...

It seems to be the Badger way, putting odd syrups into beer. I'm all for it in principle but I don't think they're very good at it, is all.

February 12, 2009 at 1:12 AM  
Blogger Unknown said...

I've always thought that it is quite a nice beer, but you really need to be in the mood to drink it, like most of the fruit beers. However,its more of a beer based alcopop than anything else, based on its taste.

February 12, 2009 at 1:34 AM  

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