Alexander Keiths Nova Scotia Style Pale Ale

Brewed by Oland Brewery (AB-InBev)
Style: English Pale Ale
Halifax, Canada

Serve in English pint, Shaker

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Bottle to glass pint. Pours a medium dark yellow, and little to no head. Not much aroma or flavor. Kinda watery and flavorless. Not my bag.

bottle courtesy of my brother Golden in color, clear with a thin white head. Good malt and hops balance. Light ale flavor this was easy drinking with a good dry finish. Very nice hot day lawnmower beer.

Bottle. Light sweet caramel malt aroma. Clear golden with a small white head. Flat grainy malt flavor with a strange metallic bite that’s not quite bitter. Light body.

This is a weak pale ale. It is initially sweet, like carbonated apple juice. Head is weak. Smells of apples. But watery overall impression 3.5-bd, 4-jd

bottle - Pours golden with a small fizzy white head. The aroma features caramel and fruit notes. It’s better than the flavor. Apparently "Nova Scotia style pale ale" means sweet and bland with almost no hops to be found. Not very good.

Sampled on 3/2/2012. This English Pale Ale pours a light amber color from a 12oz bottle. Small to medium sized white foamy head. The aroma is fruity, caramel, biscuit and sweet. A light to medium bodied English Pale Ale. The malts are mild, bready and biscuit. The hops are floral and earthy. Quickly vanishing carbonation. Kind of watery and mild. I keep thinking diet coke and soda, not that it’s a bad thing, its just not very good either. And it’s a more soda tah diet coke. Can I use the word Meh? Fits this beer perfectly. Beer Rating number 5000 or my personal list and by tradition I try and find a horrid beer for the milestone, I am traveling and this was the worst beer I had access to. I did not feel like running down to the local liquors store and grabbing something really bad. Mouthfeel is thin. Finish is clean and crisp. Aftertaste is slightly bitter.

Yellow-gold with good aromas of pale ale malt, straw, ripe lemon and zest. Those flavours come out with clean bitterness and lovely biscuit malt. Good carbonation but the finish is a little short. Good ’go to’ pale ale.

Floral and sugary malt aroma. Usual light copper, possibly added color. Sweet taste of starchy malt, metallic aftertaste and mild hopping. Light body - feels heavier than it is due to the sweet character of the beer. InBev’s world conquest continues.

Bottle at Sander’s place in NYC. Pours clear gold with a small, white foam head. Lightly toasted malts in the nose, mild caramel and straw. Medium sweet flavor, sweet bread, grains. Light to medium bodied with average carbonation. Sweet, slightly syrupy finish, faint leaves and grain, some toasted sugar. It’s nothing special, though slightly better than the Nova Scotia Brown Ale.

Meh. Boring beer that does nothing terrible and nothing good. Flat hops and a bit of unflattering sweetness. ---Rated via Beer Buddy for iPhone