2.2 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 2/5 TASTE 4/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 8/20
660ml bottle (Viisi Pennia, Helsinki)
Simple pleasant hoppy and biscuity aroma. Like a good english golen ale in some ways. Some flapjacls. Thinpalate, harsh carbonation. Alas pored with lots of sinky bits. Really puts me off. Head tiny, too brief. Nasty minerally taste. Touch muddy and dirty. Drying palate, leaves me wanting to scrape my tongue, and order something drinkable. Is it chalk? I don’t know. Did not enjoy. Thanks stranger in 5P who traded his IPA for some of this.
3.5 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 16/20
Very soft mouthfeel, an old style pale ale, great with lunch as sessionable. Understated bitterness and citrus lemon. Dry finish and bitter aftertaste.
3.7 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 14/20
Bottle. Pours clear dark gold with an average, fizzy white head, medium-short retention with good lacing. Aroma is average malt (cookie, meal, toast), heavy hops (citrus, herbal, floral), and average esters (fruity) with notes of lemon. Flavor is light malt with a moderate hop flavor and subdued bitterness. Light body, low warmth, medium carbonation and a dry finish.
3.8 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 15/20
9th May 2012
Bottle from Olbutikken. Very light haze on the pale gold beer. Tidy but short lived white head. Palate is light and a little soft with mild fine carbonation. Semi dry. Mild sweet pale malt supports fairly floral hops. Touch of elderflower but mainly white flowers. Mild tangerine stops it getting cloying. Finishes semi crisp and semi dry. Effortlessly quaffable!
4.3 AROMA 9/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 9/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 18/20
Bottle courtesy of dirty_martini. Pours gold with a nice white head. Smells of flowers, grass, lots of citrus, some tea, hints of biscuits. Taste yields a nicely balanced bitterness with some dry malt and touches of sweetness on the finish. One of the best APAs I’ve had to date.
3.7 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 15/20
Thanks to Foolish Mortal for this one! The pour is hazy dark golden with a 2-finger, creamy white head. The aroma is pale malty, fruity, and hopcitric, with the fruits leading the way, including pears, apricots, and applesauce. The flavor is pale malty, very fruity, with some pears, apricots, honey, hops, and black pepper. Medium, very complex and smooth palate. This beer won’t knock your socks off in any particular category, but it adds up to a very good, refreshing, quaffable beer.
3.2 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
UPDATED: JAN 15, 2006 Lots of bubbles climb the glass to form a gentle white cover atop the shining hazy golden body. Aroma is rather straightforward and citric, tart with pine, lemon and fresh C-hops. Alright malt backbone, lemon pie and biscuity. Clean altogether and tarter than most which contributes to refreshment. Dry lasting hoppy finish. Light body with bubbles not as apparent as expected. Fine basic beer.
3.9 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 17/20
Bought amn this is really good. Best pale I may have ever had. Amber pour. aroma is delicious. Hops, citrus, caramel, bread dough and maybe some pineapple. Flavor is full and awesome. Fruity and hoppy. Grapefruit, bread, caramel. Damn what a brew.
3.7 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 15/20
Bomber. Poured clear, brighter golden with a well-retained creamy cap of creamy white head. The aroma was softer with dry light fruity notes, grapefruit, and pine.. nice. The flavor had a sweet grapefruit and other light fruity core with with dusty lemon zest and pine bitterness around the edges.. zesty lemon and dried floral bitterness on the finish. Creamy middle, with a very dry, great feel on the finish.. nice balance throughout. This would be a solid every-day drinker if available.
3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
"Hey look! An Alesmith!" - Tupalev <P> Light orangey body, with a white head. Mild citrus, and very muted resin in the aroma. Citrus is similarly muted in the flavour with moderate malt. Average palate. Flavour is pleasant but restrained. Quaffable but unexciting.
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