Bootleg Settlers Pale Ale

Brewed by Bootleg Brewery
Style: American Pale Ale
Margaret River, Australia

Serve in Lager glass, Shaker

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Hazy orange with a large, long lasting, frothy white head. Medium body and carbonation. Wheaty, fruity citrus flavours with a long lasting, slightly hoppy finish, neither too bitter or sweet. Very refreshing and enjoyable.

330mL bottle, pours a light golden almost straw colour with a grassey/citrus, slightly doughy/wheat aroma. Nice bitterness upfront with a light lemon zest and smooth finish. Decent lacing and creamy head, nice beer.

Pours golden color, not much head and didn’t laste. Bit citrus and bready taste but not too special. Another one i will need to try from the tap

Nose is somewhat fruity with citrus and floral hops plus a significant amount of grass as well. Lightly dusty, a some bread and crackery malts as well. Pours light golden with a short lived frothy head and lace - the picture to the right looks way better. Grassy, floral, citrusy, light bread and cracker malts. Dry and crisp with a decent hoppy finish. Drinks well. Well carbonated.

Pours orange/amber with a large, slowly receding head. Aroma shows orange and tangerine marmalade, grapefruit, and hop resin along with prominent caramel malt. Loads of nutty, caramel malt flavours, with some of the citrus hop aromas transferring through. Quite an assertive bitterness follows, though the malt balances it quite well. Carbonation is too high.

330ml bottle. Light honey colour with a deep white head. Well carbonated with an aroma of floral hops and and zesty citrus background. Zesty tatse that lvens up the mouth.

very withheld and a little boring, was expect more nice bitternesss but little malt character... meh

The first time I tried this beer (on tap at the brewery) I was incredibly underwhelmed and would have rated it around 2.5.. tops. Chance would have it that I got a second taste of this beer. This time on tap at the beer joint in Margaret River (cant remeber the name). Oh.. my.. god. What a difference. The aroma oozed of juicy passionfruit and sweet sweet mango. These NZ hops are completely rocking my world right now. There’s a hefty punch of bitterness with enough malt to bla bla bla.. This beer is all about these completely world-changing hops! I never want to lift my nose from the glass. The only downside, obviously is that this brewery is horribly horribly uneven. Get the beer fresh and it’s positively angelic, otherwise it’s meh at most. Truly amazing!

Bottle - looking over my tasting notes I made no mention as to where I actually found this. Anyway, it poured golden with a medium white head. I had trouble detecting much of an aroma. It’s big on malt and has extremely light floral hop notes. The flavour is sweet malt, biscuit and, if I think hard enough some light, citrusy hop flavours are there, albeit hiding well in the background. It’s sort of like those Where’s Wally books I had in my younger years, you know he’s hiding somewhere at the carnival and if you strain your eyes for long enough you’ll eventually find the bastard. The body is good - a solid malt backbone and crisp mouthfeel but there’s just not much going on in the way of flavour, it’s actually quite bland. I’d like to try this again at the brewery one day as I’m sure it would hold up a lot better and fresher. But until then I won’t be rushing to pick up another bottle.

23 Apr 2006 - LIght sweet aroma. Cloudy yellow amber colour, over primed head that doesn’t retain and a suds lacing. BIg hoppy and light fruit hop flavour. BItter finish and a hoppy but stale aftertaste.