2.8 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
UPDATED: MAY 18, 2006 Dec, 2002. "Our Finest Ale". This is a mass market beer which largely exploits the famous history of this once classic brew. The brewing method and the yeast has been changed. This pasteurised bottle provides consistency, but no life - it is a clean easy drinking beer that is often on special offer. Tasted blind this would get an average on most people’s ratings - it is pleasant without being distinctive. [2.8]
May, 2006 Blind tasting: Pasteurised. Mostly nondescript, but quite hoppy. Nothing outstanding. A lasting soft bitterness. Toffee. Around 4.7%. [2.5]
Trying it again after the blind tasting. This is a pleasant enough beer - inoffensive, but flavoursome enough. There’s a gentle and toffee accented malt with an orange tinged hop bitterness. Quite acceptable. [2.7]
2.3 AROMA 4/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 8/20
UPDATED: MAR 15, 2005 Doesn’t taste of much - except for perhaps a touch of lemongrass. Reminds me of eating a melon. Very watery. In no way unpleasant, but rather boring.
1.9 AROMA 3/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 3/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 7/20
Another beer with nothing special about it. A little more reddish in the colour. And perhaps a little hint more bitterness.
2 AROMA 3/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 3/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 9/20
Scottish mates rant about it like they do Guinness, never a thought for their home Broughton or Belhaven. This is another beer of legend, brought into the real world by common unoffending tastes and mass marketting. I had a beer mat since I was five of Bass Pale Ale which fits the stories, but the beer itself didn’t. Poured a turpid amber, with a thin white head that lasted the first mouthful. Taste was overly nutty, with little aroma, and little body or balance. I believe my scotsman pals, as this is another ’Real Ale’ that lost it’s home to the corporate body. $hite
3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
Very classic English pale ale. It is nothing special, but a good and classic average English pale ale.
2.6 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 10/20
Clear orange color, small creamy head. Very bitter english style beer, with addition of a bit malty taste.
1.7 AROMA 3/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 3/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 6/20
Bottled. I read that the original Bass Pale Ale used to be unfiltered and bottle-conditioned. I guess it was a lot better then... it almost could't have been worse.
2.6 AROMA 4/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 12/20
UPDATED: OCT 4, 2003 Bottled.
A sweetish, smoky aroma.
Beautiful dark golden colour.
SOme hints of toffee in the flavour.
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