Alaskan Pale

Brewed by Alaskan Brewing Co
Style: Golden Ale/Blond Ale
Juneau, Alaska USA

Serve in English pint, Shaker

UPDATED: NOV 23, 2009 1. From the Jug at the GABF, Colorado Convention Center 13/10/2007 Fruity hop aroma. Small white head. Golden coloured hoppy and fruity with a crisp and dry finish. 2. Cask Stillage from the Jug at the GABF, Colorado Convention Center 26/09/2009 Hoppy floral aroma. Small white head. Clear golden coloured pale and hoppy with a crisp and slightly dry malt finish.

Bottle purchased at Liquor Mart in Boulder. Pours a nearly clear gold with two fingers of frothy white head that takes its time in diminishing and leaves behind patchy lace. The nose is a soft blend of floral, light citrus and grassy hop notes over a faint malt backing. This is a golden ale? It’s not knocking me out, but it’s certainly bringing a whole lot more to the table than most of the beers I’ve tried in this style. On the medium side of light-bodied, the palate is softly effervescent with a crisp finish that highlights some nice hop notes but just enough bitterness to clip things off. The results: it makes you want to take another drink. The flavor is floral and lightly citric (think orange blossoms) with a light, clean malt backing and a pleasantly perfumy finish. This is a really solid session beer. If I could get this in KC, it would find space in my fridge regularly as an anytime drinker, especially during the summer months. This beer has definitely changed my opinion of what a golden/blond ale can be.

Sampled in Anchorage. A nicely crafted ale with good citrus flavors and lightly hopped. Very crisp beer, pours light brown. Drinks smooth.

This beer didn’t impress me in the least. Too much carbonation or something. Not for me.

Nice crystal clear light amber brew with ample effervecance that did not produce much head at all. Has a white crown that goes to a ring and some thin lacing. The aroma was very fresh with lots of mild grapefruit and candy hops and nice malts. Yum yumyumyummmy flavour. Excellent taste! Very tasty tangy hops slightly dusty with some odd dryness. The mouthfeel was very good: super smooth and soft, medium bodied, light bitter middle (very little bitterness - well done), a soft dry malty finish with a light dry aftertaste

This beer always manages to surprise me. I’ll pick up a double-deuce at the grocery store because it’s the cheapest IPA on the shelf (and I need the bottle), and I never have to force it down. It’s not an overwhelming, kick-in-the-pants kind of IPA--it’s just a solid, reliable (and yes, cheap) IPA.

This brew looks a slightly cloudy orangey brown with a thin veil of a cap, boring looking beer, sort of cheap looking to. The aroma is filled with medium powered hops, the perfumey style of hops that makes your beer smell like a bouquet flowers you give your wife after forgetting your 41-month anniversary. Mild grape fruity hops, and some very mild bready malts make up the bulk of flavor, a hidden bitterness seems to be trying to come through but doesn’t seem to be able to make it out. Enjoyable beer but kind of boring and easily forgettable, but in the beers defense I might have let it hang out in the fridge way to long.

The beer pours a slight hazy golden with a very small head. The aroma has a nice mild roasted maltiness with some good grassy hops. The flavor is very nice with a good citrus hoppiness and a nice bitter back well balanced with a mildly biscuit like somewhat sweet malt flavor, a very solid pale ale.