Ballast Point Schooner Wet Hop Ale

Brewed by Ballast Point Brewing Company
Style: American Pale Ale
San Diego, California USA

Serve in Lager glass, Shaker

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Pours a pale bright yellow color, nose is loaded with hops, tons of citrus. Flavor is dominated by citrus hops, perfect bitterness, super drinkable, hop flavor is just really on point.

Draught Almost no head, straw-coloured beer. Banana, honey, grapes, sweet. Sweet-ish, gareen herbs, liqueurish. Syrupy, but NOT cloying. Sticky, well-bodied. Strange... I got anything BUT dry-hopping. How this works (was actually called Dry Hop ale..)

Taster at brewery. Pours on the yellow-gold side, light lacing of foam, good middling apparent carbonation. Dry hop is very present in the nose, along with the sweet grains, taste is almost white wine like, sweet and tart, before a clean bitter finish. Really clean, amazing brew, slightly buttery mouthfeel.

Half pint at tasting room. Good aroma, tart. Peppery, mango, clean yellow orange. Ok head and lace. Bittersweet flavor. Light body, creamy smooth mouthfeel, bitterdry finish. Nice, easy drinking pale ale.

This beer is a stand out beer for me. It has plenty of hop aroma and flavour balanced with a nice maltyness. This beer has a very rounded bitterness that. A,es for a very enjoyable experience.

(Pours a clear copper color with a thin white head. Light carbonation. Aroma is grapefruit, mango, papaya, pine. Taste follows suit with some sweet malts and pleasant bitterness. Medium bodied with oily texture. Dry, lightly bitter finish. Really nice beer. Glad to see this in arizona!

Dark yellow. Very light aroma with hints of medicine and fusal. Flavor has hops but no where near enough. I get too much sweet malt and not enough cascade and maybe a fusal note.  

On tap at Pizza Port San Clemente’s Hoptoberfest. (listed at 6% with 100% Cascade) Pours with a clear golden body with a white head. Aroma is grassy, citrus, caramel and grain. Flavors are hoppy, grassy and tropical fruit. Lively bubbles with a dry, fruity finish.

On tap at PP Carlsbad. Hazy golden orange pour, creamy white head. Citrus, candy sugar, fruit, grass, fresh hops, and grapefruit. Pretty sweet for a fresh hop pale. Good beer.

On tap at Obriens. Clear light orange with thick frothy head. Nose is citrus and fruity candy. Flavor is bubblegum, cotton candy with sweetbread malts, powdered sugar, pineapple-tropical fruit, finishes sweet. Medium body and carbonation. Very easy drinking and sweetly flavored IPA, bursting with flavors, low on hop bitterness