Comments on: Offer beers like Abita Golden, please.

Question: Offer beers like Abita Golden, please.

odinsdream — Mon, 04 Sep 2006 18:16:56 -0800

Please recommend beers as similar to Abita Golden as possible.

I cannot find Abita Golden locally, and I'd like to try some substitutes. Also, if you happen to know of a good, reputable (i.e., you or someone you know has ordered from them before) place to get Abita Golden online, I'd love to hear about that, too.

By: rkent

rkent — Mon, 04 Sep 2006 18:40:08 -0800

Hm... I'm not too familiar with the NC beer scene, though I see that Old Dominion has some distributors there. When I flew through DC a while back, I really, really liked their Dominion Lager, so see if you can pick that up. I'm not sure it's exactly like Abita Golden, but it's definitely of the same style: American craft-beer take on a continental lager.

I assume you've already tried a lot of the German pale lagers; they should be very similar to Abita Golden as well, at least according to the recipe.

By: rkent

rkent — Mon, 04 Sep 2006 18:43:15 -0800

Hm... after re-reading the Dominion Lager recipe, I see that it may be darker than what you're looking for. Well... see if you can find their Hard Times lager at an area Hard Times Cafe. Good luck.

By: jclovebrew

jclovebrew — Mon, 04 Sep 2006 22:42:33 -0800

Abita Golden is apparently an American all-malt lager. This is a list of other American all-malt lagers as categorized by BeerAdvocate. Maybe you can use that list as a starting point and sample some of the ones you can find locally.

Happy drinking!

By: odinsdream

odinsdream — Tue, 05 Sep 2006 07:37:37 -0800

Thanks!