Robber's Gold - Tasting and Judgement!

Beer Speaks.

People Mumble.

~ Lagunitas Brewing

Top up your pint glasses as I welcome you back to another Friday on The Art of Caesura!

I hope you've all well recovered from the excitement of St. Paddy's Day. I went on a bracing 16km hike on Paddy's Day in the glorious pelting sideways rain and raging winds. A hike that led to one poor member of our party breaking her ankle! Yikes! Luckily we had something to numb the pain - whiskey!

Following on from our ale-drenched post last week, comes the all-important Robber's Gold: Tasting and Judgment!

Robber's Gold must have been reading last week's post, because it hits on a lot of the points that we talked about with golden ales in general. In colour it is more towards the lager end of the spectrum, but in taste it is still firmly rooted between a lager and an ale.

Colour: Golden
Clarity: Clear
Head: Full
Aroma (hops): Peppery
Aroma (malt): Biscuity
Fruit flavours: Citrus
Floral flavours: Grass
Spice flavours: Vanilla
Sweet flavours: Cornsyrup
Alcohol flavours: Esters
"Off" flavour and aromas: Tart
Mouthfeel: Tingly

ABV: 4.2%

Measuring the specific gravity with ye olde hydrometer

I realized that with all the other beers that I've done tasting and judgements for, my "Judgement" part has only been a couple lines on what I thought. We need so hard numbers here folks! So, how many pints out of ten would I give it?

We'll go for a tingly 6.5/10

That's not to say it's bad. I might be a hard marker, but with my arbitrary scoring system a "5" would be average...AND I'm including commercial beers in my comparison, so for me to rate my home brew more favourably than average is pretty good!

Thanks friends, for tuning into another Tasting and Judgement on The Art of Caesura!

Watching: Beauty and the Beast - Bill Condon
Gaming: Total War: Warhammer
Drinking: Robber's Gold
Listening: Kiss from a Car - Jandon

Next Week:

Et tu, Brute?

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