An Italian style pilsner with a delicate malt character and a refreshingly crisp finish. A staff favorite! Most Italian pilsners are dry hopped. Ours isn’t. Dry hopping is great and all, but heavy kettle additions give a more refined and pleasant hop flavor/aroma that isn’t garnered by dry hopping (especially with “noble hops''). 100% Hallertau Mittlefrüh hops with 100% Epiphany Modern Pilsner malt.

ABV: 5.0%

It’s finally New England IPA season at GCB and we’re starting with a banger. Slightly more bitter than most Hazy’s, Cactus Chuck, is a little prickly, but we think you’ll like it. Made with only Cashmere hops in the boil to give it a smooth and full flavor profile. Then to throw it over the top we dry hopped with a large of combo of Mosaic, Strata, and Nelson Sauvin to give you the dankest fruit forward beer possible.

ABV: 6.5%

Dr. Dude is in the house! This classic West Coast style IPA is named after one of our favorite 90’s pinball machines in the taproom. El Dorado hops gives the backbone of this beer a tropical, hard candy like sweetness balanced by added Citra hops that highlight aromatic elements of grapefruit, lime, and pineapple.

ABV: 7.0%

Ahhhh yes, the original returns! The very first recipe brewed at Golden Cactus, G.C.O.G., is a crowd favorite. Made with a german weizen yeast (fermentis wb-06), this beer expresses all the phenolics that you would expect from the style. A heavy handed dose of Agave syrup is added toward the end of fermentation to make a very dry and slightly tart finish. Pair that with a higher than usual alcohol content, and it makes this beer a standout in an otherwise homogeneous style.

ABV: 7.0%

It’s sunny drive time! This beer takes you on a ride through the California faults while bursting with tangerine citrus fruits that gives you a dry, bitter, and fruity shake to your core. We used nothing but Cashmere throughout the boil, and then we threw in a silly amount of dry hops (4.7lbs/BBL) using Strata, Citra, Idaho 7, and more Cashmere. If you’re looking for a beer that will invade your senses, this is the beer for you.

ABV: 8.5%

This West Coast IPA is brewed with cascade and centennial hops giving it that “Classic C” hop character that’s reminiscent of craft brewing glory days from the 90’s (without all that sickly sweet crystal malt). Grapefruit flavor with a floral and evergreen aroma are backed up by a semi-firm bitterness that finishes clean and dry.

ABV: 7.0%

Belgian style saison, delicate and floral with notes of honeysuckle and clove.

ABV: 7.0%

This little light fellow has all the things necessary for your refreshment in the coming spring. The first thing you will notice is the delicate aroma of coriander mixed with the soothing scent of camomile flowers. If your sniffer is up to the challenge you may even get a whiff of lavender. With a flavor heavy on the citrus, drinking this beer definitely has a lemonade quality that allows for copious returns of slightly tart and quenching refreshment.

ABV: 4.7%

New England Hazy IPA, hop tubbed with Idaho 7 and whole-leaf hops.

ABV: 6.2%

Pale Ale, dank and hop forward with a lightly bitter and crisp finish

ABV: 5.2%

A “new to us” Belgian Blonde made with a spicier strain of yeast. More pronounced clove flavor dominate with just a tiny hint of typical belgian banana character. Named after and imitating Hey Arnold’s friend Helga, it’s on spicy blonde.

ABV: 5%

Saisons are usually all about yeast expression that comes from very high fermentation temps. But, for this saison, we decided to take it up a notch with some fruit- because why not? Subtly is the name of the game for this style, so, the guava additions were restrained. Don’t underestimate this beer though, it’ll give your beer boredom a run for its money.

ABV: 7%

Soured with zesty key limes and fresh orange peel this tart ale is sure to tickle your taste buds. The perfect companion for hot summer days, this beer displays an artful balance between tart fruit flavor and a dry mouthfeel.

ABV: 5%

A deceptively simple fruited beer, dosed with prodigious amounts of plum and ripe cherry. Slightly tart from fruit acidity, this beer delivers thirst smashing mouth puckers. You won’t regret ordering this on a hot summer day.

ABV: 5.5%

A throwback to the good ole days of beanie babies and lax airport security, this 90’s style amber is dry with subtle, but pleasant, caramel and a tiny amount of roast to satisfy the dark beer drinker while we wait for Fall season in the Blue Ridge.

ABV: 6%

In proper GC form we have yet another single hop IPA. With only Strata hops throughout, from kettle to dry hop, passion fruit says hi to cannabis in this satiating example of a brite citrus and dank West Coastness IPA (no cannabis was used in the making of this beer).

ABV: 7%

Using specialty malt from Simpson's, Crystal Red Rye, that has descriptions of toasted dark bread, autumnal sweetness, and rich malt, we made a delightful twist on the everyday pumpkin spice beer. The use of this crystal malt along with a few other dark malts made for a rich and flavorful backbone to support the spices added: ginger, cinnamon, nutmeg, and cloves. The spicing was intentionally left low to remind you that you're still drinking a beer, but with the taste of pumpkin spice that you crave in the fall months.

ABV 6.6%

Sweet and spicy! Using our usual sour base beer, but with a higher ABV to warm the bones on these chillier months, we added a large amount of cherry pureé and loads of cinnamon sticks to this brew. The result is a slightly sweet beer, loaded with dark sweet cherry flavor and hints of cinnamon in the nose, and a small spice on the finish.

ABV 6.5%

Ok, we know you’re gonna say that super light beer doesn’t belong to the craft beer industry, and that style should be left to the big brewers. Light beer smight beer. Well, we don’t like being told what to do. So, we made an American light lager that not only competes with the big brewers, but we think it’s better. Made with locally grown and malted pilsner malt, flaked corn, and Wakatu hops. This lil guy is a refreshing and delicious take on beers you’ve had a hundred times, but didn’t know they could actually taste good.

ABV: 4.5%

A West coast style IPA that’s been Hop Tubbed with 100% Chinook hops (Hop Tubbin’: our term for large amounts of whole leaf hops soaked in our copper coolship) this “Staff’s Pick” bursts with fresh pine, berries, and citrus to make this an absolute unit of a beer.

ABV: 7%