Carolina Brewery Firecracker Pale Ale

Brewed by Carolina Brewery
Style: American Pale Ale
Chapel Hill, North Carolina USA

Serve in Lager glass, Shaker

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pint at Pittsboro location. Good aroma, sweet, orangy grassy. Clean golden orange color, Good head & lacing. Bitter flavor, Grapefruit, tinny, papery. Lite body, creamy mouthfeel, bitter finish, Nice pale, aroma had a nice transition from cold to warm. More citrusy cold, grassy when it warmed.

Growler. This beer just smelt like skunk period. And the taste wasn’t all that much better. 0 for 2 on Growlers from this place.

(Draught) Pours a clear yellow body with a medium off-white head. Aroma of citrus herbs, grain, and grass. Flavor of hops (grass, citrus, herbs, some pine), light cracker, and caramel with a moderately bitter finish.

Draft sample at the brewpub. Pours a clear pale amber color with a thin head. Fair head retention and lacing. Aroma is floral, citrus and earthy hops. Taste is bitter citrus and earthy hops with some resin. Medium bodied.

growler courtesy of jcwattsrugger. Pours yellow. Nose is grass, vegetables, and a hint of grain. Flavor is empty, some citrus, some green apple and boring emptiness. Bleh ...

Courtesy of jcwattsrugger. Pours clear deep gold with micro thin white head. The aroma is mild with notes of fresh grains, some malts, a touch of earthiness and little else. The taste is earthy and grapefruit like and at the same it also has a mineral and fresh outdoor sensation. Interesting indeed. Into the finish I get a modest level of grapefruit hoppiness lingering into the after taste.

@Tampa Weekly Gathering- growler-pours a disappearing white head and yellow/gold color. Aroma is herbal/pine hops, secondary malt. Taste is herbal/pine hops, secondary malt. Weird.

Draft at The Crunkleton. Pours a pale translucent yellow with a thin white head. The nose is grassy, some hop aroma, corn, sweet malt. The flavor is more on the malt side, grassy astringent hops, corny, seems like some hop flavor tries to come through but fails miserably.

Growler courtesy of jcwattsrugger. Pours a clear yellow color with thin white head. Aroma is funky and floral with notes of honey, grass, light overripe fruit. Flavor is sweet and floral with notes of honey, caramel, light floral hops, a weird funkiness. Generally light body with a light floral hop finish.

Thanks jcwattsrugger for the share. Pours apple juice color with a white head. Nose is light malt, some hops, and a bit of grass. Astringent hop bite abound in this unbalanced ale. Flavor is light malt, herbs, and some tart citrus.

Orange pour with small white head. Some grapefruit in flavor, bitter, some woody notes. Drinkable but nothing special.