2.6 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 10/20
OK pale, er pail I guess, just unexciting. Sweet yet curiously dry. Some caramel sweetness. Mild hops. Needs more oomph.
2.2 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 4/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 7/20
Date: September 05, 2009
Mode: Draft
Source: Brewpub
Appearance: clear copper, fine white head, drippy lace
Aroma: light sweet malt aroma with faint floral hops
Body: slick body
Flavor: sweet buttery flavor, light floral hops, just a hint of bitterness
Aroma: 5/10; Appearance: 7/10; Flavor: 4/10; Palate: 4/10; Overall: 7/20
Rating: 2.2/5.0
Drinkability: 5/10
Score: *+ /4
3.1 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
On draught at the brewpub in Birdsview, Washington. Pours a clear golden pale yellow brew with a fast dissolving off-white head that leaves behind some spotty lacing. Aroma of toasted golden grain malt with a touch of biscuit character, dry green apples with some grassy hops. Taste has a dry fruit flavor with some golden grain malt and apple. Finish is slightly flat with a dry fruit and grassy hop bitterness. An interesting English pale ale with some dry fruit character.
3.6 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 5/5 OVERALL 14/20
Draft at the brewpub. Crystal clear dark straw with a nice thin gray film and solid sheets of lace. Medium body perfectly accented with restrained carb. Lovely rye sourness and biscuit on the mid-palate. Longish rye sour finish.
3.3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 12/20
On draught at the brewery. Aroma is caramel with some light roast forward. Hop character is very muted. Appearance is hazy light gold with a well retained white head. Flavor is semi-sweet malt blended with earthy PNW hop flavors. Bittering is medium. Mouthfeel is medium-low bodied with medium carb feel. Overall, the flavor was a bit too earthy for my tastes, but a better made and more complex pale than most.
3.1 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
Slightly dark straw colour and a tad murky. Hop aroma of some earth and pine. Flavour is bready with light hop presence. Finishes with a light bitternes. Nice and simple pale ale.
3.1 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
Hazy dark straw. Smells like more saaz, not that this is a bad thing. Herbaceous hop aroma. Grainy, and somewhat thin, but with fresh malt character, moderate bitterness and a decent hop signature. Still, here you see the Birdsview signature - brilliant aroma but grainy coarseness on the palate.
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