Deschutes Red Chair Northwest Pale Ale

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

Serve in Lager glass, Shaker, Tulip

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Pale ale as it should be. Deep orange pour with a long-living off-white head and a citrus aroma. Taste is just beautiful. Somewhat sweet robust malt flavor, with crispness and citrus complexity -- and just the right amount of bitterness -- courtesy of hops. Somehow manages to meld all that’s going on in a sublime medley that seems like it’s going to delve too deep into malt, but then pulls back to end crisply. Absolutely splendid. ---Rated via Beer Buddy for iPhone

Pours a clear medium amber with head that fades low but leaves great lacing. Aroma is citrus and pine hops with a great balance of bready caramel malts. Taste is sweet malts, then just a hint of resin as the hops make themselves known. The malts are never overpowered, and at best the hops make it 50/50. Everything melds into a well-blended aftertaste. Palate is medium-bodied and well carbonated. This is a very drinkable and enjoyable brew.

Copper pour with white head. Aroma is sweet caramel, with fruity and floral hops. Medium bodied. Well balanced between sweet malts and sprucey, floral hops. Super fresh and great for the style.

Pours a clear copper color with a creamy off-white head. Aroma of peach, pine, and caramel. Citrus flavor with peach, caramel,pine,with hint of hop bite. Decent beer.

Bottle: Poured a hazy orange with a whisper white head. Nice citrus fruit and hops. Very clean refreshing with hops and citrus.

pours red with a thin white head and some sticky lacing. aroma of sweet cherries and flowers. taste is bitter but balanced with a dry, fruit taste. finish is a tad watery but maintains its roundness plus a bit of hop bite.

Wonderful fruit aroma and taste that combines with the sweet malt in this amber pale ale. It goes well with the mild hops that combine into this wonderful seasonal. I could just sit and drink this all day.

Bottle. Pours a red copper with soapy beige head and sea foam lace. Nose of sweet caramel, citrus, some pine. Mild hop bitterness, sweet malts up front with a lightly bitter hop finish. Good beer, very malty for a pale ale. More like a hoppy red ale but good none the less.

Sweet aroma with a peach or hibiscus hint. Golden red color. White head that quickly vanished. Tastes very floral and kinda piney with a bitter after taste. Tangy a bit too. Deschutes kills it.

Best by 7/18/13. Orange pour with a small off white head and fine lacing. Nose is zesty citrus, honey, grapefruit, tangerine. Flavor is orange, grapefruit, marmalade, jam, honey, pleasing floral presence as well. Medium bitter finish.