Royal Duffer Golf Society Premium Ale

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

I got the sensation in both the aroma and flavor that there was some kind of wet, musty, moldy paper in my beer. Pretty damned awful and hard enough to choke down.

Aroma: 7 | Appearance: 6 | Mouthfeel: 5 | Flavor: 7 | Overall: 6

A very odd beer from "The Royal Duffer Golf Society", a.k.a. Duffer Beer, that is contract brewed in Gilroy. And while the label proclaims that this is the "best round of your life", I have to take a more pragmatic approach to this rather frilly and more-or-less average Ale.

Pours failrly well, with a nice even amount of Belgian lace as things progress. But with a rather lackluster aroma, this doesn't win any points with me. Neither does the overally soft and cushy mouthfeel -- this is supposed to be a Pale Ale, not a swig of Bailey's Irish Cream!

I do have to acknowledge the fact that this isn't too horrible in the flavor department. Cascade hops, with perhaps the subdued addition of Willamette in the finish. I've had much worse, that's for sure.

Either way, this isn't the worst mystery contract brew I've had, and I could possibly see getting this again if nothing else of character was available. But considering that I've rarely seen this anywhere (even in the 19th-Hole places that I'm sure it's being marketed to), I doubt that I will have to make that sort of decision ever again.
//TB