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Overall similarity
hopIQ take
Goldihops if you want to stay sharp and social all night,
Revolution Cross of Gold if you want more presence in your glass.
Both nail the golden ale sweet spot with identical bitterness, but Kelburn's is built for session drinking—that 3.8% ABV lets you pace yourself without the commitment. Revolution's 5.5% gives you actual substance; you'll taste more complexity and feel it land differently. It's the difference between a beer you can have three of and one you'll nurse and savor.
At a glance
Generated from the four anchored axes — never hand-written.
Beer DNA
Body
Δ 10
Sweetness
Δ 2
Situations
In words
Goldihops
Goldihops pours bright gold with a thin, quick-fading head—this is a beer that knows what it wants to do. You get honeyed malt up front, a whisper of stone fruit, and almost no harsh edges. The finish is dry but not thin; there's a delicate mineral quality that keeps it interesting without demanding your full attention. It's the kind of beer you forget you're drinking until you look down and the glass is empty.
Revolution Cross of Gold
Revolution Cross of Gold has more body right out of the gate—the head sticks around, and you can feel the extra alcohol doing subtle work. There's genuine malt depth here: toasted grain, a touch of caramel, maybe a hint of orange zest from the hops. The 20 IBU bitterness is the same numerically, but it hits with more weight, more presence. This one asks you to actually pay attention.
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Similarly hopped
Within Δ 0. Neither reads as noticeably more bitter on this axis.
Bitterness 25 vs 25 · Δ 0
Bitterness
Δ 0
Texture
Δ 6
Only Goldihops
Shared character
Only Revolution Cross of Gold