Captain Lawrence Freshchester Pale Ale

Brewed by Captain Lawrence Brewing Company
Style: American Pale Ale
Elmsford, New York USA

Serve in Lager glass, Shaker

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UPDATED: JUN 2, 2008 On Tap at Brass Rail in Hoboken. This bueatiful example of a hoppy pale ale has a beautiful color and head with a medium-full rounded paalte. The aroma is great with citrus, hops, and honeysuckle. Flavor has that golden nectar sweetness that really shines in a pale ale. The hops soon takes over and dominates the finish with an enjoyable, but perhaps over the top for a non-imperial bitterness. Reminded me of Dogfish Head 90 IPA more than anything else. Has a little more complexity though, with some lemon, orange and peach flavors. Overall, it’s like sipping peach-pineapple juice through a pine tree. Re-Rate: Wasn’t quite blown away after the first try. Later samplings have seemed a bit less sweet and overall, less enjoyable. Still a great beer.

Copper in appearance with some slight red. Medum sized off-white head. Aroma is of yeasty bread with flowery and fruity hops. The taste is slightly sweet with a good balance of bitterness in the finish. Well carbonated for nice and easy drinking.

Very nice looking with a super fresh soapy soft mouthfeel. A thin aroma of grassy and citrus hops. Flavor is fairly sweet with an odd woody vegetal bitterness. Also pine and grapefruit notes. Maybe it is my palate today but otherwise always a pleasure to find on tap.

Pours a reddish color with a small head

The aroma is a bunch of fruit forward hops, some catty aromas (in a good way) and some pine. This is not without some well controlled caramel and malty character.

The flavor is nicely bitter & more spicy and grapefruity than anything. The caramel is notably lower in the flavor than the aroma but there is a good presence of toasty malt.

Pretty Delicious.

Tap @ FG with Erica. Pours dark, hazy yellow into shaker with small white head. Solid, medium-heavy hop profile in the aroma and palate. Not extremely bitter - fresh hop taste. A bit of bright citrus in there, and some more piney hop character. Very fresh, as the name suggests. Great pale ale.

12 oz. Bottle! Pours a dark amber color with a thick head that fades eventually. Crisp and hoppy. Very easy drinking and refreshing. Another good one

Bottled version served in a standard pint glass. Clear copper color with a white head that left decent lacing behind. The aroma is a balance of piney hops, some tropical fruit and caramel malt. The taste is also very balanced with a nice twang of bitterness on the back end. Crisp and refreshingly easy to drink. A darn good beer that I’ll probably be drinking a lot of this summer.

Dark honey hue with a small eggshell head. Lots of caramel, toffee, and candied citrus in here. Not at all biting. Missing the assertive resin and grapefruit indicative of the style. Pretty disappointing.

On tap poured into a pint glass A: nice gold amber color, nice foamy 1 finger head with great retention, reduced to lacing cap that rings the glass S: neutral smell slight citrus and caramel T: nice pale pale, slight caramel well balanced with citrus. And very slight pine. M&d: very nice pale ale, good malt and bitterness. Well balanced, slight drying mouth. What a refreshing beer.

Tap @ Captain Lawrence... A golden pour with a mild forming, white head. Earthy and grainy. Quite malty with low bitterness. Very drinkable and simple. Notes of earthy hop spice and citrus.

Draft at Gingerman. Aroma is grapefruit, pine, caramel. Medium bodied, pleasantly bitter, crisp and clean finish. Nice Pale Ale.