What is the ABV on this? By the time you're reading this, I will have searched and found out from the company's site or whatever. Right now, I do not know. For some reason, they didn't bother to put it on the can. I dislike when brewers make an oversight like this. Yes, it's entirely possible that they are doing this on purpose, but to what end? It's a golden ale, so it's not going to be particularly high. My guess is in the 4-5% range. These little things are just annoying.
The beer pours gold with a fair bit of hazy going on and just enough head to let you know this sucker has carbonation inside. The off-white head dies down fairly quickly, and an island of bubbles sits on top with that ring around the glass that I'm kind of getting tired of pointing out is still there. Does anyone even care? I mean, I'm describing something we've all seen. It's pretty rare that a beer doesn't have a strong ring around the sides of the glass. The aroma is sweet and heavy with grains. It smells like very sweet corn.First sip is sweet, as expected. The grains are heavy and bring dryness toward the end, but the overall sensation is a very smooth beer. I have often said that it is difficult to judge a style, as the hardest part seems to be finding the epitome of that particular style. Right now, this seems like it would be an excellent example of what a golden ale should be. Is it my favorite style of beer? No. But even the more fringe style of beers (not that a golden ale is particularly fringe) can bring something new to the mix that I find I can enjoy.
Tip-in is sweet, grainy corn with carbonation just dazzling the outsides. The grains get things significantly heavier toward the center where the leaves from the stock of corn lay down to make everything smooth as the sweetness recedes a bit but does not entirely depart. The finish is where a pocket of dryness reveals itself before the sweet corn can come back for a quite delightful trail off.
Bottom Line: A very good drinking beer.
4.0/5