Berghoff Pale Ale

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

Serve in Lager glass, Shaker

Pours nice, very hoppy. Taste not nearly as hoppy as expected, but good thickness. Very good Pale Ale.

Medium clean amber with a small white head. Aroma is light malts, caramel, and sweet hops. Flavor was candied malts, light hops. Has a sweet dry bitterness in the finish. Overall pretty decent.

12 oz bottle. Poured a clear medium gold color. Head was thin, white, and rapidly reduced into a thin film. Lacing was decent. Ahhh, there’s that familiar unpleasant fruity Berghoff aroma of cherry and grape that seems to haunt nearly all of their beers. There is a bit of malty caramel mixed in there too. Dry and bitter on the tongue. Flavor is dominated by astringent grassy hops. Not good.

Gold / light amber color with a light hop / floral aroma. Crisp on the front-end, with a stron hops finish. Hops taste was a bit acidic.

bottle - Pours coppery colored and clear with almost no head. There’s a mild, hops aroma. The flavor has a fairly tasty hops bite with less impressive malt flavors. It thin to medium bodied and finishes with moderate hops bitterness that’s pleasant enough. Not bad.

Bottle. Faint nose is nigh-impossible to detect. Only aroma pts are for slight citrus and mild hops, but really, this should be a 1. Pale orange body with a rocky yet fizzled-out off-white head and strong visible carbonation. Watery body is bland and infused with a slight (grassy) stale bitterness. Disgusting little disappointment.

Nice copper body, but the head faded to nothing almost immediately. Decent citrus aroma, but a little on the faint side. The flavor lacked the hops that the Commercial Description said were in this beer. With so many good ales on the market, there’s no reason for me to have this one again.

Had higher hops for this. Golden color typical of style, but way too malty, and very little hops, at least compared to their own description. Unimpressed.