Kochs Golden Anniversary Beer

Aroma: 6 | Appearance: 8 | Mouthfeel: 10 | Flavor: 9 | Overall: 9

Ah yes, Golden Anniversary Beer. Let me count the ways I love thee!. Let me put it to you this way. Back in the late 80's early 90's I lived on this stuff. At 8.99 a case it was the cheapest beer you could get, and the best part was it was GOOD. I moved from the north down to North Carolina back in 1995 and they don't sell it here. So years went by without this Nectar of the gods, but I lived... Drinking the local swill, mostly AB crap or Miller litle (all crap). But 3 years ago I'd had enough. I drove up to New Jersey and bought 14 cases of this stuff. (enough for the year)and haven't looked back since. Oh sure I still buy a 6 pack of good beer here and there, but GAB is my baby. I can't get enough of that sweet sweet stuff! I recomend it over ANY cheap or middle of the road macro beer out there. See for your self, and you be a convert like me.

Aroma: 2 | Appearance: 3 | Mouthfeel: 3 | Flavor: 4 | Overall: 6

I bought this many times before I was a ratebeerian, however, this brew is rated as I drink. This is the economy beer of the Golden Ale/Blonde Ale style, it is hard to believe this is not a pale lager. Cost is 30 cents per can when purchased in a case JR’s Beer Warehouse in Rochester. Date code on attractive gold and red can is 1888, aged well. I see it won the Great American Beer award sometime in the past. Ubiquitous pale yellow American lager beer color. Lots of continuous streams of carbonation rising within. Replenishing white head that is about 1/8 inch thick. Aroma is sorta clean yeasty with corn background. Taste is typical lager, perhaps a bit course. Has a unique industrial flavor, common with cheaper pale yellow lagers. Not much different than all those other pale yellow lagers. Interesting how this compares to Hereford & Hops Whitetail Ale and Ballantine XXX Ale which are also in this style category. This may be better that both just slightly but at least it is on par. Save your cash, if you like those other two beers you should give this a whirl. Hereford and hops may be just a tad better as far as flavor goes. Finish is creamy-ish and can be dealt with to a certain extent. Not sure if this would qualify as a lawn mowing beer, but it is cheap, hence my namesake. No hints of hops and is a little corny on the finish but it is not quite as bad as those Big City Brews.

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

This is just a nice beer to sit around and drink with your dad while visiting upstate NY. Very pale color with very light carbonation. Minimal head retention. Practically no aftertaste. A very good "bad beer."

Aroma: 10 | Appearance: 5 | Mouthfeel: 6 | Flavor: 8 | Overall: 9

Me and my buddies love this beer. We bought as a joke one night and ended up loving it. Its not uncommon for us to drink "GAB" as we call it once a week. It has to have been good to have been 'honored as the best tasting American lager at the 1987 Great American Beer Festival'!!!!

Aroma: 2 | Appearance: 2 | Mouthfeel: 2 | Flavor: 2 | Overall: 2

this is one bad beer. ranking up there with other crap like mils best and natural.i would rather drink kool aid then this crap. pale yellow, soapy head and a sweetish kind od cardboard taste

Aroma: 6 | Appearance: 1 | Mouthfeel: 6 | Flavor: 6 | Overall: 4

This stuff was very bad. It tasted like sugar and beer mixed together. The worst thing about it was that I had it in a forty form. Nearly undrinkable when warm.

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

Its pretty good for really cheap beer

Aroma: 2 | Appearance: 2 | Mouthfeel: 2 | Flavor: 2 | Overall: 2

A local bar has this crap on sale for 254 every Tuesday night. My advice to you is to save your quarters because this moose urine absolutely SUCKS!

Aroma: 0 | Appearance: 0 | Mouthfeel: 0 | Flavor: 0 | Overall: 0

Not a bad tasting beer. I wouldn't buy it, don't need to, it is readily availabe at my drinking buddy's house.

Aroma: 0 | Appearance: 0 | Mouthfeel: 0 | Flavor: 0 | Overall: 0

Koch's GAB was GOOD, attractively bottled, and inexpensive when it was really KOCH'S (Dunkirk, NY). Genesee bought the name years ago and the quality plummeted. It's saving grace is that it's CHEAP !