Big Bear Hibernation Pale Ale

Brewed by Big Bear Brewing Company
Style: American Pale Ale
Coral Springs, Florida USA

Serve in Lager glass, Shaker, Tulip

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A golden amber ale with a thin off white head. In aroma, nice biscuit malt with smooth floral hops, clovers, nice. In mouth, a nice classic crisp biscuit malt with floral hops, well balanced. On tap at brewpub, Feb. 14 2013.

Pours copper with a white head and aroma of hops and pine. Taste is of hops, pine, citrus, and floral notes while sweet and toasty with a nice smooth, bitter finish. Drinkable, light APA

Nice light copper color and very clear. Aroma is highly floral with some slight pine. Mouthfeel is bitter, almost biting, and dry. Taste is toasty with lots of floral flavor. A good beer for the style. Better if you enjoy the floral hops.

Draft at brewer. Whereas the light was better than expected, this was worse. Gold with white head. Very little scent, some hops etc. Taste is citrus and bread.

Draft at brewpub. Hazy amber in the glass with a creamy off-white head that had a thin layer lasting and good lace. Nice caramel and citrus aroma. The flavor found pine, citrus, and a caramel background. Medium body and medium bitterness. Nice!

Shaker pint pour at the brewpub in Coral Springs, Florida. Pour is a slight haze, orange copper with a nice 1/2 inch lightly off white head. Falls with some nice lacing. Aroma is fresh citrus softly sweet fruit (peach, tangerine) along with a nice soft earthy grain malt. Taste is really nice, the fresh bitter citrus hops up front, followed close behind by the sweetness of the fruit and finishing with the nice earthy grain maltiness. Palate is grainy, medium to light bodied with a nice bright level of carbonation and a mineral aftertaste. Fresh and tasty beer.

A nice pale ale as far as they go I guess. It is nice and light and almost a little sweet.

Very nice. Liked the hazy cooper pour with tremendous floral pine aromas jumping into the olfactory. Citrus, piney well balanced citrus hops mix well with subtle caramel vanilla hops to quiet the bite into flavorful harmony and sublime drinkability. Body was a tad thin

Draft at Big Bear. Pours hazy yellow-brown with an off-white head. Nose is light malt, pine sap, resiny hops, white grapefruit, and sweetness/ honey. Flavor is pine bite, tart white grapefruit, malt, resiny hops, and more. Finish lingers with hops. For an APA this beer is awesome.

A little on the light side for an IPA, but still carries that bitterness that we’ve all come to enjoy.