Cisco Whales Tale Pale Ale

Brewed by Cisco Brewers
Style: English Pale Ale
Nantucket, Massachusetts USA

Serve in English pint, Shaker

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Pours a golden amber with a light head on top, more like surface slush. It also has a murky and hazy clarity. Aroma is also malts with very little in the way of hops. Taste is malts and sweet at that. I wasn’t very impressed with this one. Made in the English tradition, I’ve try to take that into account but I think it lacks depth of flavor and in fact think it quite borish.

(draught) dark gold with almost no head; orange citrus aroma; flavor is citrus hops and caramel malt.

12oz bottle from Armanetti’s. Pours a cloudy, orange-amber colored body with a thin, beige head that dissipates quickly and leaves a moderate lacing. Aroma is bready crystal malts with a moderate sweetness and some floral oranges, peaches, and apricots. Flavor is similar. Thin, bready crystal malts and floral fruits before this gets a bit peppery from the bitterness with a light earthiness. Finishes dry with a medium-light bitterness before leaving a medium length aftertaste. Medium body and a fizzy carbonation. Overall, not a very good pale ale. Over carbonated, too bready, and a bland bitterness. Eh...

Tasted at Total Wine tasting. It’s very interesting for a light ale because they brew it with more malt flavors than the typical hops you get with these beers. I enjoyed it but wouldn’t buy it.

Had this on a Cisco booze cruise in Plymouth. Aroma is sweet malt with some citrus. Flavor starts sweet with some spice, then finishes with some lemony citrus. Like most of the lighter beers from Cisco, this is solid and enjoyable but not spectacular.

Appearance: lovely orange under a billowy pithy head which fades with large patches of lace in its wake. Head lingers with a pillowy clump in the middle. Swirls enticing.
Nose: like walking into a bakery with loaves in the oven baking, loaves cooling on the counter, and fresh dough being kneaded. Lemon pith in the middle with lemon zest along the sides. Subtle dryness of straw and bread crust.
Palate: as equally bready as the nose implied with loaves of white, whole grain, and honey. Chewy and rich. Bitter rind and pith in the back before more honey-kissed fresh bread cuts through and inspires thirst. Dry grains and bread crust in the middle. Not a long finish.
Final Thoughts: a solid Pale Ale that definitely brings to mind and justifies the term “liquid bread”. Whales Tale didn’t break any Pale Ale boundaries but what it did do was brew justice to the solid standards that are already in place. Good show.

Aroma of citrus (orange and grapefruit) and caramel. Flavor is malty sweet, caramel, light hoppy finish. Too one deminsional and too much stale caramel. Just a tad too sweet as well.

Bottle. Light caramel malt aroma. Clear amber with a small off-white head. Light malt and strong spicy grassy hops flavor. There’s a strange saccharine type sweetness in the flavor also. Light to medium body, dry astringent finish.

bottle at hotel in boston this week. poured into a glass, amber in color and light off white head. not really strong bodied. decent malt/hop balance. overall was ok and curious to taste off tap

Drink this cold if you drink it at all. Does not sit well after opening. Initial tall white head dissapates fairly quickly.