Alley Kat Full Moon Pale Ale

Brewed by Alley Kat Brewing Company
Style: American Pale Ale
Edmonton, Canada

Serve in Lager glass, Shaker

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Hazy dark amber to orange colour. Nice nose of resinous hops and citrus, american style. Hops are very presnet in taste, with grapefruit, and some black pepper.Very enjoyable. Thanks to TrevorN.

Originally reviewed Mar. 7, 2007: poured with a gold colour that wasn't dark or light. head was white and decently thick. retained pretty good with an etched glass. scent showed good hops and citrus. flavour reflects the hoppy smell, and has a wee bit of malty goodnesses.

Pours amber with a tall head. Mild hop aroma. Flavour is very nice, bold hops slightly bitter, slightly grassy. Great pale ale.

UPDATED: MAR 30, 2012 (First Taste, Home, New 341mL Bottle, Lager Glass, 5% ABV, Chilled, 25/02/12. #9.)

Appearance (4/5): Pours a clear, medium orange, with a good, frothy, off white head that has fair lacing and good longevity.
Aroma (6/10): Dominating hops and citrus (lemon and grapefruit) with notes of toasted cereals and rye bread.
Taste (7/10): Lightly sweet with bitterness prevailing. Finish lingers, but not overwhelmingly so.
Palate (4/5): Quite good, dry with medium body and lively carbonation, ends with slight astringency.
Overall (13/20): Surprisingly pleasant to drink. Attractive and well rounded.
Drinkability: 2/5. Character: 3/5. Buy Again: Probably Yes.

Originally rated 09/29/11. Fresh Hop variety. Pours a really dark amber. Really clear, little carbonation, and very little head. Sticks to a nice cap and leaves great lacing. Up front the smell is rather nutty. Doesn’t smell that different from the regular fullmoon. Its got this kind of, I know its wrong but, cheesiness. I don’t know how to explain it. its weird and always there in their bottled beers. Little bit of bright sweetness. Not much bitter or resinous hops coming through tho. Definitely not piney. Taste is very pleasant. Its like a very bright regular version, very tasty. Its got a lot of orange characteristics, a decent amount of bready malt in there. The orange hop character is rather sweet. The bitterness seems more prominent than in the Full Moon, but its tasty. No alcohol, 5%, but the beer is balanced. That weird funkiness from the smell is there a bit in the taste, it disappears rather quick. The mouthfeel is medium and is really quite smooth, not very much carbonation. Just a fresher version of the regular.

Bottled sample at pampa Brazilian steakhouse in Edmonton. Very average ale ale. Wild ave it again

The pour is a bright coppery bronze with a thick two fingers of an off white head. Some sticky lacing rings form quickly. The nose is of sweet caramel and light bread with a beautiful full hop note. A fresh, grassy hop and slight grapefruit. Sweet and sticky in the middle with a full grapefruit hop and light caramel malt. A prolonged hop bitter with a moderately resinous quality. The mouthfeel is sticky and resinous with a medium body. Overall, a good prolonged hoppy taste. A definate improvement to the full moon.
Earlier Rating: 8/1/2008 Total Score: 3.5
Had ina bottle at Bottlescrew Bills calgary, AB. Pours at startling bright copper golden colour with aaverage sized head. An aroma of citrus and fruit is present. Hints of grass and predominantly citrus are first acknowledged. The beer tastes sweet and citrussy with a substantial but not overpowering hop taste. A very good pale ale and a drinkable crisp clean beer. Yet another great beer from Alley Kat. I hope to try the barley wine next.

Draft at The Sugarbowl. Pours clear orange, thin head, very weak lacing. Nose is earthy hops, light citrus, soap, clean cereal grains. Flavours of dusty hops, nice spice throughout, bitter earthy finish. Seems a bit thin, but pleasant enough.

341mL bottle pours a hazy golden-orange color with moderate white head that settled to a thin lacing. Aromas of floral hops and grain. Taste is big hop with some malts to balance the flavor. This is probably one of the best pale ales to be found in Canada.

Pours clear copper with not a lot of head. Hop aromas that come to the front are grass/resin. Solid caramel malt backbone. Bit of biscuit in there too. Punchy hop bitterness. Seems a bit heavy on the hop bitterness vs. the hop aroma for the style. Mouthfeel is maybe a touch thin. I want to like this more than I do.

Draught: Poured a hazy caramel brown with off white color head. Aroma was mostly hops and light malt. Taste was a gritty hops with malt to give it character.