Badger Golden Champion Ale

Aroma: 6 | Appearance: 6 | Mouthfeel: 6 | Flavor: 6 | Overall: 6

Purchased at the Liquor Control Board of Ontario Store. Beer pours a weak clouded golden colour with a generous bubbly white head. Aroma is floral hops, biscuit malts, and buttered popcorn. The flavour is honey, caramel, and malt with yeast notes in the finish.

Aroma: 6 | Appearance: 6 | Mouthfeel: 6 | Flavor: 7 | Overall: 7

Clear golden yellow with white lacing foam head. Aroma is quite floral. Taste is quite good, some floral notes. Bit velvet a taste in mouth. (Velp 201310)

Aroma: 7 | Appearance: 7 | Mouthfeel: 6 | Flavor: 7 | Overall: 8

My first Badger experience, from the LCBO in a brown 500ml bottle. Pours a golden-amber colour with an average creamy white head that comes down at a medium pace but creates soapy thick lacing. The nose at first is pretty grainy with some biscuits. After a while, something different (but nice) comes out, which I assume is the elderflowers used in this one. I really like these aromas, almost perfumy. The taste is mild and fruity. Refreshing mouthfeel with a crisp finish. On the back label of this brew, they rate this one fully sweet, but it is a nice sweetness that is not offensive. An overall decent refreshing English blonde ale.

Aroma: 7 | Appearance: 6 | Mouthfeel: 6 | Flavor: 6 | Overall: 6

A recent find at Ontario LCBO stores, but it was a fine I could do without. I'm beginning to lose a taste for English ales, especially blondes like this. Golden in colour with a white head. Tons of grains in the aroma with some flowery hops to round it out. Taste is rather bland and one-dimensional with a pronounced fruity malt touch and little in the way of hops.

Aroma: 10 | Appearance: 7 | Mouthfeel: 8 | Flavor: 8 | Overall: 8

500 ml capped bottle. Poured in the original Badger pint glass a clear copper-brown coloured ale with a short two fingers slight beige creamy foamy head that had a very long retention and tons of micro bubbles. Active carbonation. Good lacing. The aroma is grainy malts, notes of fruits and floral hops. The flavour is sweety malts, biscuits, heavy fruity, lychees, apples, citrus, oranges, notes of spice, ginger, floral hops. The mouthfeel is crispy, fizzy and smooth. This medium bodied ale has a long fruity finish. A well flavoured and pleasant ale.

Aroma: 7 | Appearance: 8 | Mouthfeel: 7 | Flavor: 8 | Overall: 8

500ml bottle, Sample is fairly fresh and in good condition. Poured a deep gold with orange highlights, lightly hazed, decent 2 finger sticky cap lasts and laces the glass well. Moderate carbonation. Aroma is demure and delicate - light floral tones over a grassy under tone, very light fruitiness and lightly sweet maltiness. Medium-light body, sandy mouth feel. Flavor profile has a nice dose of sweet malts in front balanced by a fruity-floral herbaceous tone ... like bread with a touch of clover honey....mid palate it gets a bit bitter with light complexity as floral and fruit esters mingle with the hop alphas and wonderful malt mix.....dries out a bit in the finish as the bittering becomes more pronounced. A very flavorful and satisfying yet easy drinking golden ale. I really like this one. Wish it was available all year.

Aroma: 7 | Appearance: 7 | Mouthfeel: 6 | Flavor: 6 | Overall: 6

500ml bottle
5.0% ABV
Main/Bronte LCBO Outlet (Milton, Ontario, Canada)
July 18, 2011
$3.50
The beer poured a translucent gold colour with a 1/2" off white rocky head. The aroma was grassy malt, plenty of citrus (lemony), and spice. The mouthfeel is medium bodied with medium carbonation. The flavour is grainy malt, dish soap, light fruits, and a citrusy finish.

Aroma: 6 | Appearance: 4 | Mouthfeel: 5 | Flavor: 5 | Overall: 5

Bottled@Chris O Post GBBF tasting. Golden colour, small mediumsized creamy head. Aroma is parfume, spices and some wood. Flavour is mainly wood, grass and flowery hops.

Aroma: 8 | Appearance: 8 | Mouthfeel: 9 | Flavor: 9 | Overall: 9

A very fruity ale with alot of bite. Not alot of carbination, a real nice ale, very smooth with a hints of fruit in the middle of the palette. Quite a nice ale

Aroma: 8 | Appearance: 8 | Mouthfeel: 6 | Flavor: 6 | Overall: 7

(500 ml bottle). Deep golden colour, good head. Nice hoppy and elderflower aroma. Elderflower is probably what I get in the flavour too, but I've never eaten elderflowers, so I can't really tell. There's some caramel and a reasonably decent hoppiness, but it's a bit too sweet IMO. A bit alcoholic too, despite only 5% ABV.