UPDATED: NOV 17, 2021 Historic rating from 2015 - Bright golden in colour, with a some citrus aromas. A clean, crisp taste with a finish that is has a dry, light bitterness.

UPDATED: MAY 14, 2021 Bottle, 0.50l. Aroma is grassy, floral, citrusy and grainy. Pours clear amber color with thin creamy off-white head and sparkling appearance. Taste starts light to medium sweet and sour grainy and yeasty, following is grassy, medicinal and citrusy, mouthfeel is dry, while finish is pretty bitter. Medium body, oily texture and average carbonation in palate. Black gold...

UPDATED: APR 25, 2021 Old rating from 2010 - 500ml bottle, pours deep golden with a white head. Aromas & tastes of orange, berries, caramel & malt. Medium body. Light bitter finish

UPDATED: APR 4, 2021 Aroma : Lightly toasted sweet caramel malt, delicate aroma of orange citrus with a little note of straw. Taste : Decent bittersweet balance, soft sweet caramel maltiness is offset by a lightly bittering orange citrus. Better than your average often insipid Golden Ale

UPDATED: MAR 20, 2021 Lockdown March 2021 - the day Pops and I bought Easter eggs from Tesco. 500ml dark bottle, filtered, from the brewery. Orangey malt with soapy hops. Quite drinkable, but unremarkable. Let down by the hop. Single hop, but doesn't say on the bottle which hop that is. The hop levels are ok, and the bitterness in the finish is good, and the marriage with the malt is good, but the flavour just has that awareness of soap that it sometimes there with some lagers. An ok beer, and would be happy to drink again, and to select over a variety of other beers, but just doesn't quite impress enough to get me excited. [2.8] Lockdown March 2021. 500ml dark bottle, filtered, from BeerHawk as part of their UK beer box. The pasteurising days seem to be over. This is quite a drinkable beer. Orange notes. It's nothing special, but is quite acceptable. [2.6] July, 2012 500ml dark glass bottle from Morrisons. Cidery, apply notes - perhaps from the sugar. Dryish, slightly puckering in the finish - perhaps from the sugar. Boiled sweets. Soft toffee malt. Muddy hops emerging late in the finish and lingering with a modest pleasantness. This is drinkable, and has some plus points, but the negative points bring it way down. [2.3] Aug, 2008 As Tesco Golden Ale Orange bronze caramel colour. Initially fairly pleasing, clean, dry orange tinged malt with a pleasing nip of bittering Goldings, some aspects start to grate. There is a boiled sweets taste which experience tells is due to the pasteurising process not the addition of sugar, which despite what Paul Ambler says on bottlebeer.co.uk, doesn’t add to the flavour, merely gives the beer a certain lightness as it’s a cheap and nasty source of alcohol. Crisply carbonated. Leaves a dirty taste in the mouth. This is cheap, nasty brewing, and it shows. [2.4] Dec, 2006 Boiled sweets flavour of a pasteurised beer. Slight metallic notes. Faint orange flavoured toffee. The malt is characterless or bland or smooth or clean, depending on your viewpoint. The hops are dry and firm. Mostly drinkable, but not a pleasing beer. [2.1] March, 2004 Pasteurised bottle. BBE Oct 04. Orange amber colour with light foam head. co2 aroma with some biscuit. Soft mouthfeel with a slight creamy texture, just passes through the mouth like damp cotton-wool - shudder! Neutral palate with an edge toward dry, moving toward dry in the finish. Toffee notes, and a dark, orange tanginess, plus a healthy hint of apple in the finish. There’s good things in this beer, but it all amounts to nothing special. Despite the slight carbonation this is a beer devoid of life. [2.1]

UPDATED: OCT 21, 2020 500 ml bottle, from Gulating Ølutsalg, Stavanger. ABV is 4.5%. Clear deep golden colour, moderate white head. Aroma of malts, toffee and earthy hops. The flavour is first slightly citric on a dry grainy background, followed by earthy hops and a dry and slightly bitter finish.

UPDATED: AUG 30, 2020 Easy drink but not out of this world, light and zesty with a good balance but poor head

UPDATED: MAY 4, 2020 500ml bottle brewed in England at 4.5%. Clear gold meets bronze with a good whack of head. Slightly fruity, slightly rustic aroma. Moderate+ carbonation. A decent but unremarkable supermarket golden ale. Hopping strikes a pleasant balance between fruity (nondescript citrus and berry) and old school; the slight sweet biscuit/caramel malt is well-integrated. Possibly a better made beer than its Golden competitors on shelves, but also possibly less interesting. Spitfire Gold has more character, and Timothy Taylor's Knowle Spring Blonde does the minimalist clean schtick considerably better than this. For some drinkers, this may just be a happy medium, then. Not bad anyway.

UPDATED: AUG 26, 2020 Pours a golden colour beer with a white thin head Notes of citrus fruits and berries fruits fresh fruits and berries

UPDATED: APR 11, 2020 Bottle from Nisa, Chester Road, London on 11th April 2020. Pours a clear golden amber with any foam quick to disappear. Caramel malt aroma with tangy fruits. Citrus and berry fruits in-mouth, with a fruity finish to follow, with caramel malt. Smooth mouthfeel and light body.