Tasting Notes: Bombardier Burning Gold
Brewery: Wells and Young's
Location: Bedford, England
ABV: 4.7%
Version: 500ml bottle
Source: Sainsburys
Billed as a sister beer to Bombardier, Wells and Young's reckon this should appeal to ale and lager drinkers. They may well be correct on the latter but I'm not convinced about the former.
As you can see from the picture this beer is aptly named, it's a lovely orangey gold colour. Opening the bottle and we get a light citrus fruit aroma of lemons and limes, pleasant but quite restrained, presumably so as not to frighten off those lager drinkers. The flavour continues with the light citrus hop character, with a dry, grassy finish which only serves to add some harshness and stop the whole thing from being a refreshing, if uneventful, drop. Overall, Burning Gold doesn't amount to much and I certainly have no burning desire to have another.
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