Deschutes Mirror Pond Pale Ale

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

old rating: 7/4/8/4/17 - 4.0 pours a clear amber with a white head, and great lacing. smell of caramel, malt, a few hops, a roastiness, and a touch of citrus. taste is lightly bitter, caramel, earth, malt, and some hops, ends dry yet refreshing.

Pours a hazy copper color with a white head. Aroma is malty caramel, with lots of citrus hops. Flavor is caramel with a bitter grassy citrus hop finish. Good pale ale.

The standard pale ale - nothing great - a nice medium bodied light ale with a crisp bitter finish of cascade.

Medium head, slightly hoppy aroma. Slight citrusy nose in the flavor, with a weak hops finish. Refreshing and poundable, the palate is not complex at all, and doesnt linger. Nothing extraordinary going on here... a good brew for a hot summers day at the beach.

The smell is pretty light. I can definitely smell the Orange spice but it’s light, or my nose is a little stuffed. Dark Orange almost light brown in the glass. Small/Medium head that fades fast. Great taste immediatly, not the strongest or most bitter IPA but not the weakest either. Slightly bitter aftertaste that goes away after 5 seconds. Great beer overall ranks somewhere in-between a Sierra Nevada PA and a Redhook in the bitterness/taste category. I thought it was great but a bit lighter than I would have really liked.

orange 5 spice aroma. has a brown taste (yeah the color brown) with light hops and grass. flowers really dominate and make it unpleasant. mediocre.

WBF-Raleigh. Clear amber body with a medium creamy white head. Sweet caramel aroma with some light citrus hops. Dry caramel and citrus hops flavor.

12 Oz Bottle. Moderately spicy orange peel and candied ginger aroma. Quite restrained. Planty. Hazed deep flaming coal orange, with burnished edges and a rim of dirty white. Flavor is a somewhat soapy orange zest and lemon. Mild subterreanean spice covers up a mild-mannered malt bill. An almost artificial citrus presentation in the middle of the palate. Sugar profile restricted to nips of brown sugar and the early stages of Maillaird. Palate fields only a light draw of hop bitterness, seemingly lower than I anticipated. Reads almost like an English stlyle, but otherwise a mediocre pale ale.