Berkshire Ale Traditional Pale Ale

Brewed by Berkshire Brewing Company
Style: American Pale Ale
South Deerfield, Massachusetts USA

Serve in Lager glass, Shaker

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[Cask at GBBF 2004] An amber beer with no head. Both the aroma and flavor are sweet with the totally dominating note being hops.

(22oz bottle, courtesy of Exiled) Pours a clear amber body with a small white head. Aroma of caramel, roasted nuts, orange, light pine, and herbs. Flavor of caramel, subtle herbs, and citrus.

Murky amber topped by a medium beige froth. Aroma is mild, caramel, earthy. Taste is medium sweet, grapefruit, caramel, light lemon/tang, mild pine finish. Light-medium watery body. Pleasant beer.

Barrel Draught at the GBBF, Kensington Olympia 05/08/2005 Amber mid brown coloured with a slightly hazy appearance. Very hoppy. Some dryness in a warming wheaty malt finish.

growler-Small Gathering @my place-pours a retaining tight light tan head and copper/red color. Aroma is soft biscuit/bread-light/medium malt, secondary earthy/slight pine/resin hops. Taste is sweet light/medium malt-biscuit/bread/caramel, secondary spice/pine/resin hops with some bite, bark. Grainy mouth feel. Good carbonation.

Orange/copper colour. The aroma is typical US pungent resinous sweet hops. Flavour is sweet caramel malt and hops, with a hint of citrus but, in general, the flavours were rather restrained (not necessarily a bad thing). Quite acidic, but not bitter, finish. A bit short of grip and not perfectly balanced. Not bad, but not great. Cask (gravity) at GBBF 2004.

22oz bottle acquired in trade with jjpm74 (thanks!). Poured a deep orange color with an averaged sized off white head. Aromas of oranges, grapefruits, light pine, light caramel and lightly floral. Tastes of caramel with some citrus. The aromas where stronger citrus with light caramel where the tastes where the complete opposite. After drinking for a little bit, I was also getting some toasted malts. Body a tad on the thin side. This one was a nice surprise!

A dark reddish amber ale with a thin creamy off white head. A strong diacetyl aroma cloying, strawberries. In mouth, a nutty and buttery ale with light hops, medium bodied. On tap at Flat Street Brewpub, Brattleboro, August 2 2009.

Pours brown with a small head. The first scent present is of hops, followed by some sweet malt. Taste is of caramel with a slightly bitter aftertaste.

Bottle. Pours an amber body with a thin tan head. Sweet caramel malt with a hint of pine and some light citrus and apple. Mildly bitter with a mild piney finish. decent brew.