Dry Dock Breakwater Pale Ale

Brewed by Dry Dock Brewing Co.
Style: American Pale Ale
Aurora, Colorado USA

Serve in Lager glass, Shaker

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(draft, 5/28/10). Clear light copper color. Small off white head. Moderate grassy/citrus hop aroma. Flavor is the same but light, with light malt and light bitterness. Avg duration. Light bitter finish. Slick texture. Moderate carbonation. Spare lacing.

Tap. Clear gold with thin, fizzy white head; short retention and minimal lacing. Aroma is pears, grassy and floral hops, cookie malt, and lemon. Flavor is malt forward with strong carbonated water taste ending with bitter hops; dry finish. Medium body and carbonation with low warmth.

draft. caramel, toffee, wet, droppy, flacid hops that taste like old grapefruit pith, fennel sprigs and celery stalks. syrupy, thin and flabby with no supported malt or hop acid whatsoever. semi-sweet orange candy with powdery, dirty dry-wall yeast.

Growler shared with Gabe. Pours a thin off white head, with some lacing, over a hazy, dark gold (SRM 6) body.....nose is citrus, grapefruit peel, toffee/caramel....taste is malts with toffee/caramel, leading to grapefruit bitterness....mouth feel medium, carbonation medium. Hops are a bit unbalanced with a lean into citrus, but otherwise a fairly standard American Pale Ale. BJCP 7/3/13/4/6

on tap-pours an offwhite head with gold color. Aroma is sweet lemon, some light malt. Taste is sweet lemon zest hops, secondary light malt. Crisp. Guess I was here for the right batch!

Pour is slightly hazy orange yellow with white head at the brewery. Aroma brings notes of spices, grass, hints of lemon, nice sweet biscuit. Taste is a nice mix of bitter grass, pine, hints of lemon and orange goes into a nice sweet cracker like biscuit, finishes slightly bitter but tasty.

Tap at Dry Dock - gold pour with a very slight haze - well-retained head - a lot of lemon, grapefruit pith and orange in this one, making me wonder if this batch has some citra hops in it - light body, but full carbonation makes the mouthfeel fairly full - light pale malt sweetness - some crisp, peppery character in the finish - nothing terribly complex, but fairly tasty.

Sample at the brewpub. This brew pours a clear orange-gold color with a medium thin ivory white head that recedes quickly. Spotty lacing on the glass. Aroma of grassy hops and malt. Light to medium body with a mildly hoppy character that has citrusy and grassy notes. Some sweet malt in the background. The finish is short and mildly hoppy. Pretty average overall.

On tap at the brewpub. Lacey, highly carbonated. A light bitterness. An OK beer, but mediocre for the style. Medium golden coloured body.

UPDATED: APR 1, 2011 Tap @ brewpub. Pours a clear copper orange appearance with an off white head. Pale and slightly amber malty nose with mild flower hoppy smell. Pale to medium maltiness in the body with a very mild hop character. Kind of a weird creaminess in there. Drinkable but below average.