Belmont Pale Ale

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

Serve in Lager glass, Shaker

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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.

Golden yellow looked unfiltered unless it was chill haze. Some citrus aroma. Beer was relatively light on the palate. Hoppy and crisp. It was my favorite of their brews.

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

(Draft: Belmont Brewing Company in Long Beach, CA) The pale ale is all about the hops. The malt bill is about as light and minimally impactful on the overall flavor as any I can remember in any pale ale. It tastes like an IPA without any malt behind it. About all I taste here is a moderately bitter but very citrusy hops, a citrus that starts off with a touch of orange, but almostly instantly, it is very grapefruity and sharply tart like the rind, especially in the long-lasting and bitter finish. Oddly enough, the nose isn’t nearly as grapefruity, but rather more sweetly fruity, and I’m reminded of the (canned) lychees I’ve had in the past. Body is light, naturally, but it’s very clean and extremely crisp throughout. The beer pours a very hazy medium straw color, and the small white head quickly settles to a complete sheen atop the beer. Lacing is minimal as well. If you like grapefruit and don’t mind a one-dimensional beer, this might be a good choice. I like a little, well okay, a lot more malt body in my beers though, so I’m not all that fond of this one.

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

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.

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.

Poured golden and cloudy.Had hugh hoppy flavor.Was real light in the mouth.The finish was slightly bitter

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!

On Tap @ the brewery. Pours a very pale orange/ yellow color with a smallish white head that leaves no lacing. The aroma is slightly hoppy with some citrus notes. Flavor is malty with a surprisingly strong roasty aspect. Very sweet. Little to no hop character. Slight astringency in the aftertaste.