Deschutes Mirror Pond Pale Ale

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

Bottle (in NZ). An orange hue with a slight haze. Yummy nose, all toffee, grapefruit and pine - APA to a tee. The malt is a bit bready, overall the mouthfeel is quite mellow. The hops are surprisingly quite subdued on the palate, more flowery than the citrus and pine that on the nose. The finish is refreshing with just a sprinkle of that citrus. A quaffer.

POurs orange. Nose is sweet malts and pine/citrus hops. Soft honey. Flavor is bready, sweet malty caramel, fresh citrus hops. Insanely drinkable.

Hazy copper pour, with a soapy, sudsy lace - quite a tasty and assertive APA - fairly crisp, dry and bitter up front - this is followed by a malt character more in line with british pales than american ones - dry, biscuity malts, slight earthiness, a hint of diacetyl/buttery flavor - actually, aside from the fresher hop character, I would classify this as a british pale - not a bad one, though.

12 oz bottle - pours a slightly hazy light orange color with smallish light tan head. Aroma is slightly nutty, notes of light caramel, slightly toasted malts, light oak. Flavor has biscuity malts, caramel, vanilla, oak, faint nobel hops, with a balanced finish. Overall this is a very nice brew. Different than what has become the standard american IPA, this has restrained hopiness and a nicely rich maltyness, more like a English pale ale.

[Fresh Hop Version] Tap @ their PDX pub... Poured copper/orange with a nice white head that lasted throughout the brew. Freshly hopped aroma. Very sweet beer, with an incredible bouquet of citrus and pine-like hops. Super balanced. It’s batches like this that make me wish fresh hop beers can brewed all year long. Crisp and delicious all the way through.
Earlier Rating: 12/27/2006 Total Score: 3.3
Bottle, Poured a clear, smokey orange with a white head... Aroma of malt, hops and caramel or maybe some clove. Well carbonated palate, taste similar to its smell with maybe a little bit of citrus and a nice dry, hop finish. An awesome Pale Ale!

12 oz. Bottle. Pours Orange-Blond...almost no head. somewhat hoppy...medium bitterness, lively and refreshing. another excellant beer from the people in Bend.

Draught at Deschutes Brewery and Public House in Portland. Aroma of lemon-orange, honey, passion fruit, jasmine. Cloudy, hazy dark copper color. Rather sweet flavor, very fruity: passion fruit and other tropical flavors. Piney hops with medium bitterness at the finish. Good, unique pale ale.