Kokanee Gold

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

I like this beer. I am not a beer-snob or a connoisseur, but I am adventurous and none too rich, and satisfied with my purchase of Kokanee GOLD, even when night prices are in effect. It's a little different in color and flavor, when compared to other mass-produced Canadian lagers, and it's made with good water. It is a much better product than Kokanee, which has really changed for the worse in the last couple of years. Kokanee GOLD was really sweet when it first came out, in the yellow Kokanee boxes/labels, but it's gotten better since.

Aroma: 6 | Appearance: 3 | Mouthfeel: 5 | Flavor: 4 | Overall: 4

This beer is highly over-rated, and is probably closer to a lager/pale lager than a Czech style Pilsener. It's clear, it's a dark gold, and the aroma is musk. The flavour is slightly better with a malty base backed up by a hop....maybe 2 hops.

Aroma: 7 | Appearance: 5 | Mouthfeel: 5 | Flavor: 4 | Overall: 5

Poured large white foamy head over a highly carbonated rich amber body. The head survives mainly due to the endless bubbling and does produce a small ammount of slippery splotchy lacing. Aroma is a let down - sweet, skunky and grainy with some malt, but at least there is an ample ammount. Taste is sub-par at best. Then again I just got back from a weekend of endless bottles of Old Style Pil and Bohemian (viva Saskatchewan!). Sweet, dry, dusty with decent malts, but the malts are just not good enough to make up for the overall flavour. Some sourness too. Mouthfeel is nothing to shake a dead gopher at. Fairly smooth with a bitterness that I'm not fond of. Regular Krokanee is better, but not by much. Consumed in under 5 minutes. Hmm. Guess it's easy drinking. Better than average Canadian swill, but it doesn't leave you over-gassed. Too bad about the flavour. Remember - stuff like Pil, OV, Labatt 50 & Black Label is not your average swill: it's above average swill.

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

Is this a cottage brewery craft lager...NO!...so it seems asinine to come at this beer with that frame of reference. This is a common local commercial all malt lager. That's what this is...a lightly roasted malt biased beer with good thirst quenching and drinkability qualities...beer snobs need not apply for tastings. The majority of local folks that drink the occasional domestic draft and wear sneakers and dockers when their cowboy boots and chaps are in for cleaning, like this stuff..it's the number 2 draft beer out west(Canada)...and for good cause. Kokanee gold is a fuller tasting draft beer than the watery offerings from Molson or the other mega brewers and it isn't a heavy yeasty drink like the local ale crafters churn out. This light copper lager has broad consumer appeal, much like the Gordon Birsch beers.....it's mild beer made for wide commercial appeal to people who want something a little different than the 300 brands of fizzy corn juice Mol-coor-batt make...Obviously sales affirm that point. Average folks know what they like and they like K-Gold on tap....where does that leave it's critics?...tilting at windmills is my assessment... because there are more than enough people drinking this beer to keep the Creston Brewey busy filling K-Gold draft orders. Pours a crystal clear light copper-gold with a smallish off-white head that laces out quickly. Has subtle sweet caramel malt aromas, some toasty tones, some light spice, hints of Pacific NW hop. Starts crisp like a pilsner but smooths out on the tongue where all the light carmel tastes, nuts, spice and medium body is departed, finishes clean with no after taste. A little light on taste and malt spine for my tastes but hey, lots of people like lighter mild beers.

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

Going into this review keep in mind I hate Kokanee and the only reason I purchased this ditty was because I was at a tavern and this was the only beer on the long listed menu I have yet to review. (you can understand I feel good about this already). The taste was nothing special, it has a similiar aroma and flavor as the original but it does have a little more of a bitter kick with the more alcohol. I would never buy a case of this and probably never order a single glass again.

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

I always get this beer when I'm at this one restaurant where the choices are either Kokanee Gold, Coors Light, or Labbat Blue. Not a bad beer to have and that extra 0.3% gives you a boost so you can do incredible things such as pass out in alleys, and play chicken with traffic.

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

After hearing so much from friends about how much better tasting this was than Kokanee I tried it out a long time ago, what I found was nothing too exceptional but I would take this over a bottle of Kokanee any day.

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

Well, I've had Kokanee on several occasions before, and was never overally impressed, to be honest. So when I got a hold of a bottle of the so-called Kokanee Gold, I wasn't exactly thrilled, to be honest. And while I would normally feel a little guilty for having such a negative first impression of beer without having even tasted it first, this is one beer that I can say that wholly lived up to my expectations -- or lack thereof. This beer, just like it's lighter/easier drinking cousin -- more or less sucks.

Pours with way too much foam and head production, atop a rather dull looking amber body. Stale malt-like aroma doesn't help this beer, that's for sure.

Tastes very similar to another regional speciality that is higly over-rated -- that is to say, San Diego's Karl Strauss Amber Lager. In fact, if I wanted to, I could probably copy-and-paste my Karl Strauss beer review to this one, and there would be little that I would need to edit. Dull, very sweet front-end, boring middle, and down-right ugly finish. Who drinks this kind of crap, anyway?

Very poor in so many ways, that I have no reason to even want to finish this. Down the drain you go, my fine Canadian friend.
//TB

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

Actually worse than the regular Kokanee. A nice, amber colour with a decent aroma but the taste.... Something about this beer is wrong to me and I can't place it - an odd but not unpleasant taste. Morning-after is brutal with this stuff.

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

Color is darker than regular Kokanee; since they say Amber on the label, I will call it amber colored too. Small head that dissapears to nothing. A little bit fuller body than Kokanee, but still bland and watery. Not much smell at all. Subtle tastes of malt and hops, but not a full flavor by any means. Crisp, clean finish, no after taste. Nothing really special, but a step up if you like commercial lagers.