Founders Pale Ale

Brewed by Founders Brewing Company
Style: American Pale Ale
Grand Rapids, Michigan USA

Serve in Lager glass, Shaker

on tap at founders. pours copper. floral hop aroma. some carmamel malts. not too bad.

On tap at the brewpub. Semi-cloudy light amber/golden with medium white head. Aroma is medium sweet caramel, citrus hops. Flavor is big citrus upfront with nice dry caramel balance, a little perfume but very tropical hops. Medium body with bigger bubble carbonation. Nice, a perfect sessionable beer with tropical hops and a little grainess.

Maybe I had an old bottle, because it wasn’t as hoppy as I expected. Still, pretty smooth and tasty pale ale. Not that this is a bad beer, but it’s not really as good as most of their other stuff I’ve had.

Pours with a tall white soapy head that lasts. Aroma of hops, pine, and a bit of citrus. Decent lacing. Flavor of grapefruit, hops, and some malts. Very pleasant drinking beer.

Bottle back from greensboro. Color is a dark yellow almost orange with a frothy off white head that lasts for some time. Copious bubbles rising up the glass to hold the head right where it is. Straight floral hop aroma. Citrus, orange and fading to grapefruit hop flavor. More hop forward than many an APA I have, which I enjoy. Decent drink but nothing incredibly memorable. Would take this as a lawnmowing beer any day.

clean aroma, hops are mostly floral here as found in a freshly scrubbed euro lager. the lager parallels continue with the ’flat’ mouthfeel (not a reference to carbonation). it glides square across the tongue without any round center, but within its pre christopher columbus shape lives light esthers and hops without their stereotypical bitterness. well balanced, but the hops ’win’ (as they should). i agree this is a great lawn mowin beer, much moreso then the typical fodder of kolschs and other dull or even bland pale lagers typically associated with the season.

Tasted at sheffields in Chicago. Yellow pour with a nice white head. Hoppy and malty wtih a good citrus dose. Flavor is crisp, clean and hoppy with a sweet hint of malts. Good for the style.

Cloudy yellow pour with white head. Arom is of malt and slight hops. Taste is malt, dryness, hops, and some pepper tastes.. Lacing was left on the glass. Aftertaste is malty. Very good beer.