Belmont Pale Ale

Brewed by Belmont Brewing Company
Style: American Pale Ale
Long Beach, California USA

Serve in Lager glass, Shaker

Part fo the sampler tray at the brewery. Better than the other samples but nothing too special

Draft @ brewery. citrus on the nose. Pours a light blonde. Nice hop bitterness, grapefruity with hints of pine. Very hop forward and refrshing. Pretty nice.

Tap at brewpub. Slightly gold pour. Big citrus hop aroma. Light crispy malt taste with a touch of hop bitterness. Good pale.

On tap at the brewpub. Pours a very strange cloudy yellow color with no head, like unfiltered grapefruit juice. Aroma is a touch tropical with pineapples and orange. The flavor is all grapefruit with a bitter finish. Not real balanced.

Standard light yellow color, not real head or lacing noticed. Slightly hoppy and is a pretty standard pale ale, nothing particularly stood out on this one.

Clear golden color/ fleeting head. Mild floral, pine hop aromas. medium body. Mildly bitter floral, pine hop flavors with lightly sweet pale malt. mild

On tap. Pours with a white ring and a golden body. Decent lace. Aroma of citrus and light pine. Taste is citrusy with medium to high carbonation. Fizzy really. Not amazing, but a basic pale.

Pours unsettlingly pale gold with no real head. Odd. Aroma is grassy, nearly salty, with pale grains. Palate is light, and mildly dry on the finish. Flavor starts grassy – and I began expecting nothing much out of this beer – but that, wham! Lychee-green strawberry flavors come striding onto the palate through the heart of this beer. Where are these flavors coming from? Why are they here? I don’t know, but it sure made for a memorable drinking experience. Then, just as soon as they came, this beer returns to the ordinary with a straw-and-grass bitter finish. But my, the unexpected!