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Overall similarity
hopIQ take
Revolution Cross of Gold if you want a beer with presence and grip,
Second Street Chamisa Gold if you want something that disappears easy.
Both sit at identical IBUs and hop profile, but Cross of Gold carries more muscle—that extra 0.7% ABV paired with Revolution's house yeast character gives it a noticeably fuller mouthfeel. Chamisa Gold is the session play: lighter, crisper, designed to drink three of without fatigue. Neither is "better"—it's about whether you want a golden ale that makes itself known or one that gets out of the way.
At a glance
Generated from the four anchored axes — never hand-written.
Beer DNA
Body
Δ 7
Sweetness
Δ 2
Situations
In words
Revolution Cross of Gold
Cross of Gold has this honeyed, almost malty sweetness that sits on your tongue longer than you'd expect from a 5.5% ABV beer. There's a subtle grain-forward quality—maybe some Munich malt in there—that gives it backbone. The hop character is restrained (20 IBUs won't blow you away), but it's clean, almost noble in restraint. Finishes slightly warm, in a good way.
Second Street Chamisa Gold
Chamisa Gold drinks like a beer designed for a hot day in Santa Fe—it's *light* without being thin, crisp without being sharp. The malt is barely there, which is the point. At 4.8% it feels like your glass empties faster because there's no friction, no lingering sweetness. Hops are a whisper. It's refreshment first, complexity second.
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Similarly carbonated
Within Δ 0. Neither reads as noticeably livelier on this axis.
Texture 56 vs 56 · Δ 0
Bitterness
Δ 0
Texture
Δ 0
Only Revolution Cross of Gold
Shared character
Only Second Street Chamisa Gold