Barrel House Cumberland Pale Ale

Brewed by Barrel House Brewing Company
Style: American Pale Ale
Cincinnati, Ohio USA

22 oz. bottle. Pours a medium orange amber color with a medium off white head. The aroma is grassy, citrus hops , and light moderately sweet malt. The flavor is more grass with the citrus hanging around as well. Dry comes to mind, as does a strange damp hoppiness that is strange with this beer. There is probably a reason it has taken me this long to rate some of the few locals we have in Cincy.

Pours gold/orange, wuith a very large head. Aroma is hops, grass, and malt. Flavor is hops, grass, and some fruit. Light to medium body. Slightly bitter finish.

12/19/2007: Barrel House Cumberland Pale Ale (Cask) has a grassy aroma with some vague citrus and a hint of butterscotch. The beer is a clear copper-orange color and is nearly still. The flavor is somewhat disconnected through. It is very grassy and dry with flavors of both old hops and "wet" hops (Cascade?), although it isn’t that good. The mild to moderate bitterness is lasting. This beer has a medium-light body and is smooth. I’m not so sure that the cask aging and dry hop did anything positive for this beer...

CASKsample at Nicholson’s Scottish Pub in downtown Cincinnati, Ohio. Rating #102 for this beer...

Draft pint from Arnold’s in downtown Cincinnati. Light orange pour with thin white head. Strong but quick blast of hops, also sweet, peachy, citrusy, and floral. Worth a try but unspectacular.

Bomber. Pours a copper body with a huge white head. Grainy, floral, moth y citrus aroma. Metallic notes and tin, with a grainy finish. Hops are very subtle. Nothing to write home about.

22 oz’er. Poured the suspected orange-copper color with a quick head. There’s a sweet grassy aroma to this. The initial impression is the same, a sweet citrusy beer -- but then a deepr metallic, woody sting, with a distinct peachy aspect to it, too. (#3541, 5/17/2009)

An orange pour with creamy white head and a really nice lace. Aroma is mostly malt and light hops. Flavor is a clean crisp malt flavor with a nice light bitter. Good carbonation and mouthfeel. The best beer I’ve had from these guys maybe ever. Don’t expect a monster ipa’ish beer just a nice drinker very nice.

The tap handle said, "Cumberland Pale Ale". I don’t know for sure that it was this one and not the one from Louisville, but since I’m in Cincinnati and this beer is from Cincinnati I’ll go ahead and enter it as this beer. The pour was vibrant copper with a nice, foamy white head that was slow to collapse and produced decent lacing. The aroma was dry piney hops, light spice and a bit of caramel malt. The flavor was dry hops and spice. Decent caramel malt. Average mouthfeel.