What are 'golden ales'?

What are 'golden ales'?

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Golden ales are very pale colored beers that are being brewed in many ways, trying to re-capture the market from Largo by traditional brewers in Britian. They're made using very pale colored malts. None of the darker malts are in there, so you get a very light colored beer, light sweeter tasting beer.The hops tend to show through rather well on top of the light malts, so you can get rather hoppy, fruity, perhaps floral flavors coming off a golden ale.