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: 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.

A little hops, some character in a lemony sense, or at least some kind of citrus. Decent, even a little more interesting than your average pale ale. Had a sample of this at a stand in the lcbo. Worth finding again.

Bottle from brewery. Clear and golden with a big head. Slightly yeast aroma with English hops. Slight caramel taste with some English hops and some actual IBUs in there. Decent stuff.

Really nice basic drinker. Up front lots of grass and straw, backed with some breaded sweetness, and a hint of a hoppy bitter finish with some limited citrus presence. Nothing wrong with this at all, great standby beer.

Golden pour, 2 fingers of head. Aroma of grapefruit and bready malt - a bit of grass as well. Some citrus up front, a bit of pine, malt, bready, some toffee, fairly bitter. Average mouthfeel, ok carbonation. A fairly good sessioner when it’s fresh.

In regards to Pale Ale, this one just doesn’t suit my palate. Looks great on the pour from the tap. Nice healthy white head, aroma caries nutty hops and bitter wood. Tastes malty and bitter rather than hoppy and citrus. A middle of the road Pale.

bottle. Golden colour, medium fluffy head. Aroma of nutty malt, wood, butter. Taste is smooth with moderate amount of bitter. Decent beer, would buy again, but nothing special.

Malty tasting pale ale with a moderate amount of bitterness. I can not say I really enjoy either the taste of the malt or the taste of the hops used. One of those beers that smells better than it tastes. An OK APA but slightly below average for this style in my opinion.

Cannette 500 ml. 5%. Couleur jaune foncé, mousse blanche. Arôme de malt caramel et céréales. Gout d’alcool, malt et un peu de caramel. Finale avec des notes d’alcool et un peu de houblon.

Bottle from the brewery. I was told this was brewed three days ago. Pale golden colour. Thick white head with good retention. Slightly buttery aroma with grass, wood, lemon rind. Light bodied. Slightly fruity flavour with butter, honey, lemon, dandelion, wildflower. Short finish.

(bottle) clear medium amber colour with small white head; aromas of candy, fruit; flavour is a letdown after the aroma - simple, mineral/ashy; with long medium bitter/mineral finish