Black Oak Pale Ale

Brewed by Black Oak Brewing
Style: American Pale Ale
Etobicoke, Canada

Serve in Lager glass, Shaker

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UPDATED: JUN 26, 2007 A very nice pale ale...Nicely hopped and very refreshing. Will purchase again

Pours gold with a thin head. Aroma is caramel maltiness with some woody, fruity hop. Flavour is very nice fruity and resinous/piney hop with a medium toasty caramel malt body and a dry bitter finish.

Bottle RBESG 07 ... Golden yellow colour ... a very fruity palate with a little balanced hop.

UPDATED: APR 4, 2009 341 ml bottle - pours gold with a nice thick white head. Fruity, hoppy aroma. Nice full fruity flavour, with a good grainy backbone and a softly bitter finish. Could use a few more hops, but I guess that’s what the Hop Bomb is for. A nice refreshing summer ale. Could be GREAT with some tweaking, but as it stands, a very solid APA. Good work Ken and Adrian. Please bottle the Hop Bomb. Thanks. Update - on tap at the Magpie - superbly fresh and with a much more bitter and crisper hopping.....dry hopped, perhaps? Apricot and subtle mango touches come out more in the draught version, as well as crisp, dry wheat. Regardless, the tap version is preferable to the (still very good) bottle, and it makes a tasty, refreshing pint. Incredible range between the bottle, tap and cask with options becoming far more preferable as you climb the ladder. I’ll say bottle: 3.1, tap: 3.5, cask: 3.8, so we’ll go with the middle number.

I have had this one for longer than I should have, not sure which Canada trade it came from but I will give a shout out to Viggo since he is a pimp. A: Pours a pale honey like golden color with a nice tall white head. Great retention, and spotty lace from top to bottom of my glass. S: Simple aromas of crackery grainy malt, candy sweetness, and mild grassy hops. T: Simple, on the malty side but I did let it sit around for a bit. The cereal grains are there, with hints of bread and caramel. Very subdued hop profile.... mostly grassy green hops with just a touch of citrus. M: On the lighter side of medium, not bad really.

341 mL bottle. Pours a honey-gold, with a slight bubbly head. Sweet honey and malt aroma. Bitter malt and honey, with a touch of hop. Very nice oaky finish. I actually didn’t enjoy the first one I had, but as I worked through the 6-pack, this stuff tasted better and better. Great beer.

341ml bottle. Clear bubbly dark golden with foamy white head that coats glass and sticks around. Decent hoppy aroma. Surprisingly tasty, dry crisp earthy pine and bread, not too bitter. Great maintenance ale for a hot summer day. Nice clean aftertaste.

Golden colour with thin head. Nice citrus nose with some hops. Very nice rich citrus with some hops and some good malt in mouth. The hops came especially nice all around the mouth and in psot taste, a nice biscuitty flavour. Good stuff.

UPDATED: OCT 25, 2003 Nice flaxen, gold colour, with bright white foamy head. Fair amount of carbonation. Floral, citric hop nose. Sweet malt starts it out, then we get a rather sharp piney-citric hop kick that lasts and lasts ... long after all the malt backing has disappeared. A rounded finish, and a hint of smokeyness (?) ... good but really doesn't pair well with food (it tastes sour if you pair it).

Clear orange/brown color, with a nice medium white head. Aroma is hoppy with some earthy malt elements as well. Flavor is light but well balanced. Good malty body with some crisp citrusy hops balancing it out. Not extraordinary but a solid APA. Thanks jercraigs.