What a lovely mistake.
As part of the ongoing deep dive research, I grabbed a handful of what I thought was Belgian beer and by mistake grabbed a Christoffel Bier now called Blonde.
As this is a whole new area of tasting, still don’t feel qualified to rate this but can say it’s tasty and will have [...]
The Tank had the opportunity to sample another one of the wonderul Terrapin Beer Co. brews with the Golden Ale.
It was certainly as tasty as expected but I was surprised that the Dark Star Sunburst burned through my memory as being the benchmark for a Golden Ale and so was slightly dissapointed.
Saying that, the Tank [...]
Simply this is a great bottled beer five stars *****. St Peter’s also does an Organic Ale that is very tasty. One of these days muct organise a tasting of all the St Peter’s range…
German was on hand from Vancouver to help in making an important decision. What beer was going forward in the Golden Ale category for Beer of the Summer 2008?
First order was to see how the Darkstar Sunburst did against the award winning Hopback Summer Lightning.
And the result was that in a nudge and a wink, [...]
Well, well….just did a blind taste and in a big surprise Dark Star SunBurst has come out swinging and has taken out the Hammerpot. Previously, the Tank was loving the Madgwick Gold and that’s why this a big surprise.
The Beer of the Summer Taste Off 2008 is still some ways away but the Tank thought it might be good to start working on the qualification process for what tasty beer he’s going to take through to the finals.
After some pondering at the bottle shop, I settled on putting a couple of Golden Ales [...]
Following on from the news of Lewis Hamilton and Goodwood Festival of Speed, it’s only fitting to have a beer that celebrates the Madgwick Cup and Goodwood corner.
This is one easy drinking (half-pinter first sip) Golden Ale…nice tangy bitterness with some gentle hop uplifts.
Definately, goes onto the list for Beer of the Summer 2008.
Had another contender for the beer of the summer from the West Sussex microbrewery Hammerpot with the Golden Ale Madgwick