Deschutes Mirror Pond Pale Ale

Brewed by Deschutes Brewery
Style: American Pale Ale
Bend, Oregon USA

Ok, I’m missing something here. This is a pleasant enough brew, but it’s rather boring, no? How’d it rack up an 83 percentile rating? Tastes biscuity with the lightest bit of honey and a grassy finish. Went well with the pasta I had for dinner, but nothing I’ll go looking for in the future.

Has a sweet fruity nose with some subtle resiny hops. Burnt orange with slight haze and medium pillowy head. Biscuity sweetness, with a solid bitter hop balance. Highly carbonated, felt just a touch thin, nice smooth finish. Excellent session beer.

draft, golden amber IPA with a light grapefruit flavor and mild citrus notes, good typical ale

Pours copper with medium dense beige head. Aroma is floral and citrus hops. Flavor is grainy, mild herbal bitterness, fruitiness, mild pear, tart flavor. Mild lingering bitterness. Mouthfeel is moderately full, but just slightly watery.

kind of a mixed bag kind of beer. definitely need to let this one warm a bit before enjoying. initially, very light aroma with mild hop flavor that comes into better focus as it warms. light aftertaste of citrus/spice. just ok.

Mirror Pond Pale Ale has a light orange to coppery amber color with limited foam that quickly dissipates and next to no laciness. A clear color with decent carbonation. The smell is limited but basic malt is the only thing I notice. The taste is good flavor and slightly malty. Dominate at the start but then the hop flavor comes out soon after. A slight citrus flavor is present and follows the flow with mostly Cascade hops. For a basic APA with a slightly watery and the malt/hop mix is not quite there.

Sampled at RRBF 08. Beer is clear, light caramel brown. Head is small, white, frothy/creamy, mostly and quickly diminishing but mostly lasting.<P>The aroma is malty with light notes of toastedg rain, caramel biscuit; Hoppy with moderate notes of honeysuckle floral, light note of dried apricot; Yeasty with a trace of dough; Trace miscellaneous trace note of green apple, moderate note of honey mead.<P>The flavor is moderately sweet, moderately/heavily bitter, lightly acidic with a long, lingering, heavily bitter, lightly/moderately sweet finish. Blooming honeysuckle retro-nasals.<P>The body is medium, the texture is watery and the carbonation is fizzy.<P>Pleasingly aromatic, nice personality, well balanced, engaging. I think I could use this as a lever to get my friends peeled off of Fat Tire.

Draft @ Owl Club in Rosevile, CA. Pours orange with a bright white ring. Nose is light and oddly I get rye bread in the nose. Taste is sweet malty and there the rye comes back again, weird that the rye is there but it makes it more interesting.