Butternuts Porkslap Pale Ale

Brewed by Butternuts Beer and Ale
Style: English Pale Ale
Garrattsville, New York USA

Serve in English pint, Shaker

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Pours a hazy copper color with a short lived head. A very well achieved balance between the hops and malts. Not overly hoppy like many Pale Ales. My first beer from this brewery but it won’t be my last. Cool packaging too!

12 oz can purchased at the brewery in Garrattsville, NY. Pours to a beautiful, bright, amber color, with a tight, white head that fades, and a good carbonation. The nose on this beer is pleasing with some good zesty and herbal hop aromas. Palate is soft, with good pale and stewed malt flavors, paired with light fruity esters. This beer finishes with more good pale and stewed malt flavor up front, then ends with a gentle, mild hop bite that lingers. Enjoyable, very drinkable pale ale, with enough aroma and flavor to please the beer geek in me, but a beer that you could pound with impunity. I love a good drinking beer like this.

Review date 10/8/2008... From can into Alpine mug... Poyurs a cloudy apple cider brown with ample carbonation and a wispy thin head that comes and goes, leaving decent lacing. Nice bance of boiled malt with apples and cinnamon with a fait complement of mild piney hops. Clean and austere malt profile, resembling a lighter pale ale, with a fair amount of English-style grassy and piney hoppiness. Cinnamon emerges with warmth. Quite enjoyable. Very soothing mouthfeel-hearty, woody, rustic and full. Freshness and carbonation give this one some nice ups. This drinks lightly and quickly. Calorie count only 150 per the can. Another very enjoyable effort from the gentlemen down Route 80 in the 607.

Pours to a nice two finger head with nice retention. A nice citrus hop aroma. A mild hazy amber color. Has a little bitterness that gives way to a nice tart and clean finish. Refreshing and very drinkable. Nicely done.

Can at Fats in NYC. Amber pour with an off white head, looks like a typical APA, but after that all bets are off. I think this one has an outstanding flavor. It starts off almost sour with noticeable fruit backed by sweet malt then finishes bitter with a smokey essence like that of a scotch. Really good drinking beer, I have no idea why it is rated so low.

aroma was faint hops, color was light amber hue, taste I was surpised, really good hop profile, and smotth blend of malt!, overall, I like it nice pale ale Thks BlackIPA!

12 oz can. Pours light copper with a lasting off-white head, good lacing. Nice caramel malt and piney hops aroma. Medium, tangy body, lovely carbonation. Bready malt and earthy hops fill the mouth. Long, dry, bitter finish. Nicely made, I would say, English Pale ale.

Pours honey amber with thick white head. Very nice toasted, caramelly malts and floral, woody hoppiness in the aroma. Flavor is very well balanced between citric, floral hops and sweet, toasty, nutty malts with some vanilla and earthiness. Almost creates a fruity balance like in good ESBs. Dry, crisp palate with nice lingering flavors. Very enjoyable and a good value.

12oz can. Mixed 12pk. A pare of two cute pigs doing a chest slam to each other. Pack date 06/15/2009. Pours a deep amber \ copper color. Tall whispy white head. Aroma of honey and sweet herbals. Lots of floral hops in the nose. Where’s the Pub?? Flavor has a permect crisp caramel malt. All followed by a bold woody hop flavor. Wow. This is great. Every Butternuts I try is just so surprisingly tasty. I really like this Brew. Light to Medium bodied. I could only imagine this beer to taste better if it were Cask. Wow. Great Ale!! Cheers 18 july 09

Can: Poured a light amber color ale with a nice foamy head with good retention and some light lacing. Aroma of light hoppy notes with some citrus flavour is quite enjoyable. Taste is nice mixes between some light dry malt with some hoppy notes with are well balanced between some bitter and citrus notes. Body is about average with good carbonation. Nothing to write home about but considering the low ABV this is a good thirst quencher.