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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Thanks JCB for sharing. Pours an amber orange with some haze. The aroma is sweet, some corn, malt dominant, caramel, kind of bland. The flavor is sweet, bland, some corn, mild bitterness.

22 oz bomber into a snifter. Best by: 08/28/2012 A - Dark amber body with a red tint. Off-white soapy head. Really solid lacing and retention. S - Sweet caramel malts and english style hops. A bit piney and grassy. T - A bit subdued. Caramel and bready malts with a touch of clean grass. Simple and tasty. Medium body with low carbonation. O - A simple and clean APA. Hops are light but it has a great bready malt backbone.

Murky amber color. Looks like homemade beer. Average aroma and carbonation. Tastes of subdued hops, Clean finish. A rough, unfinished beer. Would not try again.

From a bottle poured an amber color with a fair amount of head. Light hoppy flavor with a quick malty finish.

22oz bomber into a pint. Color is more like a brown than a typical pale ale, but this is traditional so I guess thats different. Taste has a mainly malty backbone, sweet caramel, roasted ceader, piney sap. Goes down sweet, thick on the malt, slow, and tangy. Color omits a brown, some plum, some chocolate, and some cheeried brown wood. A raisin fig combo also hangs out in the taste. Im just not sold on the name labled on the bottle. An american strong, though not that strong, would be better. I like bbc.

Best pale ale available, perfect companion to a good deli sandwich, just a damn good quality beer.

The aroma is off a bit, caramel, brown sugar, chocolate, grains, some vegetable. The appearance is a deep yet translucent amber, off-white head. The flavor is caramel, sugary, some rotting food/vegetable thing, some butter. I wonder if there’s an infection afoot. The finish is even odder: upfront it’s really sweet, moves into a mild resiny hop bittering. Medium in body. Strange beer. Not good. I hope I’m not being unfair to it. I’ll have to rerate it if i come across it again.

22oz bottle. Usually overlooked BBC offering next to the popularity of the SRA. Pours a nice darker golden hue decent head and lacing. Nothing really sticking out to make this one great, basic malty nose, slight caramel and citrus, but its mild. Palate is much of the same, slight bitterness up front, but bland through the mid and a dry finish. Good, not great everyday offering.

Amber color, with a medium-sized head. Medium bitterness, with some nuttiness and caramel notes. Not bad.

Light resin hop aroma. Hazy orange color with a small tan head. Light bitter beginning that fades in the finish. Palate is mildly creamy in the end.

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.