Batch Brew 18 - Pale Ale

Batch Brew
Brewed at Oakleaf
Style: American Pale Ale
Winchester, England

Serve in Lager glass, Shaker, Tulip

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500ml bottle. Clear dark orangey golden to amber colour with small, macropore, collapsing, white head, some lacings. Piney hop aroma, hints of orange, tangerine, honey. Taste is minimally sweet caramel malty, a touch of honey, cautious hints of lemon, piney and resinous hoppy overtones; flat carbonation, slightly insipid character.

Bottle 0.5l at home (via alesbymail). BBE 01/09/2013. Colour is clear orange with small white head. Aromas and flavours: Fruits, grape, hops and sweetness.

50cl bottle, 01/09/13. POured clear golden with a thin, soapy white head. Floral, fruity, biscuity aroma. Flavor has biscuits, oranges and mild spicyness. Light bodied. Refreshing, but nothing special.

Bottled. Amber colour, small white head. Aroma is grapefruits, wood, some catpissy notes as well as mild herbal notes. Flavour is fruity, floral, some grapefruits, mild zest as well as some quite bitter and earthy notes in the finish. Refreshing.

Bottle. Golden, very small and fully diminishing head. Moderate, malty and sweetish aroma, light caramel and some tropical - floral fruitiness, light grapefruit hoppyness. Body is medium, malty and sweetish flavor, light caramel and some tropical - floral fruitiness, light grapefruit hoppyness. Finish is average, malty and lightly sweetish, light caramel and some fruitiness, light grapefruit - citrus hoppyness. Fruity APA - could be drier and have more hoppyness.

500ml Bottle - Amber in colour. Grapefruit, peach and tea in the aroma. Hoppy and crisp taste with notes of tea, lemon and grapefruit detected.

50cl bottle from Toscanaccio, Winchester. A rather flat looking amber beer with a ring of white head; somewhat musty fruit aroma; light, fruity flavour; with some dry leafy bitterness and warming spice to finish.