gold!

On the fifth day of Beermas I went and bought for me

Five malts of gold

Four avian hallucinations

Three French magicians

Two love ya dearlies

And the simplest answer there could be  

I admit, this is another lazy one, but sometimes you might as well take the things that just fit.  This is Gordon Finest Gold, a lager by John Martin Brewery.  It sounds like it should be a British beer, but it's actually made in Belgium.  So a little surprise after all.  I only wish instead of 10 it said 5 on the label, that would have fit absolutely perfectly.  I guess the other option would be drinking five.

Very normal looking beer, transparent, snow head, pretty standard beery smell.  It's actually quite lagery, with a lot of grain being most identifiable.  At first it tastes a lot like a normal beer, just calm bitter, but suddenly a sort of medicinal flavor bursts out, and the beer takes on a thick and round quality.  It feels much heavier than it looks, and the mild scent also didn't give any clues about its body.  It might be the Belgian influence that gives the beer some complexity and fruitiness.  It has that little tang at the end of the drink that so many Belgian styles possess.  It also packs quite a punch at 10%.  That might be like getting a fist of rings to the head if you're not careful.