Berghoff Pale Ale

Brewed by Minhas Craft Brewery
Style: American Pale Ale
Monroe, Wisconsin USA

Serve in Lager glass, Shaker

hazy light copper color with rocky head and good lacing. Taste is sweet caramel malt with light bittering in the finish. Not complicated, not filling, and easy to drink. Good for the off day when you just want a beer or two.

Pours a light amber color. Aroma reveals a nice malty flavor that’s also present in the flavor. Pretty light on the palate, but that’s to be expected.

Poured from 12oz bottle, pours a clear reddish amber with a thin diminishing head, there’s nothing really there in the aroma and the flavor is more of sweet malt then anything else, very bland and forgettable, pass.

Bottle. Poured a darker amber reddish color with a tiny white head. Did leave plenty of lacing on the glass as it went. Aroma was funky. Not your typical pale ale aroma. Aroma was sweeter. Molasses, corn, and malts. Flavor was very sweet. Carmel, and molasses. No hops what so ever. Very malty and sweet. I don’t know how this is an APA. Drinkable though. Not the worst beer I have had, just not an APA.

UPDATED: OCT 16, 2010 This bottle was a couple of years old, and it looks like Berghoff (which has since been renamed Minhas) changed their logos considerably. Luckily the taste stayed the same.

Bottle to pint glass. Has an amber appearance. Clear body, sparse head and sparse lacing. Just a basic beer. Kinda sweet, with a light body. I probably wouldn’t buy more, but if it was in a chest of beer, I’d grab one.

Pours light amber with a 1 finger eggshell head that has decent retention. Aroma is straw, toasty grain, yeasty white bread, toffee, caramel, citrus and light floral. Flavor is corny grain, light citrus, straw, light caramel, spice, some vegetal notes, a little skunk and metallic notes. Palate is light bodied with a slightly oily entry, dry finish and light, but sharp carbonation. Not a good APA at all, but not completely terrible.

Pours a light amber color. Aromas of mild malt and citrus hops. Minor hop flavor is balanced with a smooth light malt taste. Watery finish with some hop finish and aftertaste.