3.3 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
Pours a bronze amber with a thick lacy white head. Aroma is mostly blooming with hops. Body starts with a smooth malty sweetness, but becomes more bitter and overpowered by the hops by the finish. A decent APA, but could use some more balance and refinement.
3.9 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 15/20
UPDATED: SEP 16, 2011 Nice juicy and fruity hops all over this one. Grapefruit and tart doughy tangerines with a crisp, and fresh, juicy flavor... very nice bitterness, wonderfully grassy fresh hop cones everywhere. Pretty much what an APA is supposed to be about, very well-crafted.
3.2 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
My Bottom Line:
This quaffable American Pale Ale develops a perfumy, spicy and citrusy hop intensity balanced out by lightly biscuity, caramelized cereals for a very approachable example of the style.
Further Personal Perceptions:
-A ring of foam circles the veiled amber.
-The finishing hop bitterness is spicy and quite leafy.
-The mouthfeel is lean and rather bubbly.
-The flavor profile is balanced, but not necessarily memorable.
Bottle; best before May ’09.
3.3 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
Bottle from Squire’s. Pours turbid orangy coppery with nose of bready pale malt, hopcitrus, grapefruit, and tangerine. Tastes bready malty, hoppy, with notes of citrus, slight florals, funk, and tropical fruit. Needs a tad more malt to become elite, but I’d drink this again with no qualms.
3.4 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 13/20
12 ounce bottle from Market Street Wineshop Downtown
Charlottesville. Pours a hazy orange color with a medium head.
Good head retention and lacing on the poor side. Sticky and
toffeeish aroma with earthy citrus malt notes. Taste is bitter
hops with earthy malt notes. Medium bodied.
3.5 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
Pours copper with a thin white head. Smells citrussy and spicy. Tastes earthy and sweet with some resiny hints on the finish.
4 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 16/20
Tasted at the Barrelhouse Brewing Company Microbrew Fest on November 9. This APA was much better than I was expecting. A great example of a microbrew APA, this is exactly how I would make it! Thick head over a dark amber body. Nice bittering effect and good finish.
3.4 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 14/20
Bottle. Flowery hops and cherry malt aroma. Reddish tan color with ample head. Sweet cherry malt flavor with strong hops finish - moderate carbonation - a heavily hopped beer - not one for those that don’t like a hops bitterness.
3.1 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 11/20
bottle, thanks to travita, muddy brown golden pour with thin white foam, sweet grapefruit aroma and bitter lemon, citric flavors, metallic finish
3.2 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
In short: A heavy/dirty APA with a resinous and citrusy hopping. Decent beer even if not refreshing
How: Bottles 12oz. Tasting session with Montreal crew. Age unknown but probably fresh.
The look: Cloudy dark orange body topped by a small beige head
In long: Nose is resinous and citrusy. Body is rather fluffy/yeasty for the genre. An overall (not unpleasant) dirty feeling. Dirty caramel malt backbone. Resinous and citrusy hops. A wood juice/wood sap flavour. This is a tasty brew but this is not a refreshing APA that I would drink in large quantities, to the contrary it feels a bit heavy and sticky. Another nice brew from this Kentucky brewery, the state with five million people and fifteen last names.
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