Bull and Bones The Lunch Pale Ale

Brewed by Bull and Bones Brewhaus and Grill‎
Style: American Pale Ale
Blacksburg, Virginia USA

Serve in Lager glass, Shaker

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Horrible name for this one. Served on draft at the brewpub. Pours a copper tinted gold color with a medium head. Decent head retention and good lacing. Aroma is earthy, citrus hops with some toffeeish malt notes. Taste is bitter citrus hops with toffee and green apple. Medium bodied.

Tap at brewery. Pours clear orange with a medium, fizzy white head, medium-short retention with fair lacing. Aroma is citrus and floral hops, meal and hay malt with fruity esters. Flavor is malt with balanced hops, fruity esters, and a dry finish. Medium body and carbonation, low warmth.

Fantastic take on an APA, this one is packed full of fruity estery flavoring hops. Clear amber with soft carbonation the aroma shows strong grapefruit and some toffee. Hops are juicy on the tongue, like a fresh hop ale, fading only slightly in the long finish. Only moderately bitter. Very well done.

Orange pour with creamy white head and lace. Aroma of bread and sweet malt and some decent citrus. Short sweet malt on the front with decent bitter finish. Thin and watery but good.

On tap at the brewpub on 02/19/2010. Clear copper amber bodfy with a small frothy white head. Sweet floral hop aroma with some caramel. Sweet floral and light citrus hop flavor on a pale malt background. Medium body with moderate carbonation.

on tap-pours a white head and gold color. Aroma is easy citrus, some light malt. Taste is citrus/pine with a slight bite, secondary sweet light malt-caramel. Dryish finish.

UPDATED: APR 18, 2010 This was enjoyed at lunch with my family. I will be back to taste more of their beers. The food also was excellent. Try the crab bisque. The pale ale was similar to their IPA. I thought it might be a little better for what its goal is to accomplish. The bitterness was smooth without the citrus flavors. Enjoyed another in April 2010 with my daughter. Still good but somewhat thin.

Draft: Weak hoppy aroma of grapefruit. Clear amber, good lace. Tastes weakly of grapefruit and cherries. As with all the other Bull and Bones beers I’ve tried so far, it tastes good, but lacks strength.

A nice attempt at tasty. On tap pours orange-amber with a diminished head that leaves trace lace. Some malt and metallic notes in the nose. These transfer directly into the flavor dept., with a nice bitter to accompany mid-pull that closes the finish. Almost reminiscent of an ESB, but does have just enough body to account for an APA. Just misses the mark on being complex and tasty, but a decent palate cleanser and a nice rating.

Amber, not much body, slight haze, reasonable flavor if you are looking for a watered down APA.